rodman99999

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@oldhvymec- " They are so loud because nothing escapes around a wheel,..."                           You’ll never see a sound suppressor on a revolver (wheel gun), unless it’s in a movie with a screenplay writer that knows nothing about weaponr... 
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@griff69-      A Smith & Wesson, Model 29, .44 Magnum, to be exact, in most of the Dirty Harry stuff.     YEP: the Automag only appeared in Sudden Impact.    
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Thus far: no Naysayer Church intrusion.     Their religion and doctrine is True Crime. 
NOS Tubes - Ecstasy or Agony
I have one Sylvania (40's/bottom-getter/two hole*) VT-231 and a T/S Round Plate (metal top support), in each of my Cary monoblocks.   In the past 20 years of owning the amps, no combination has taken me, "there" better, regardless of ancillaries... 
NOS Tubes - Agony or Ecstasy -Part II - The Search
"You can find good European sellers on ebay, for example."          I've purchased a number of excellent, NOS, European, small signal, nine pins, from this (highly dependable & conscientious, in my experience) guy:                             ... 
HELP Have one cable of a pair looking for the other half
Looks a lot like Kimber’s 8PR, aside from the shrink-wrap: https://www.kimber.com/products/8PR 
VTL's and KT88's?
"...inside I see the plain old Electro Harmonix construction, as they used always’..."       See any side ring getters/silver side gettering, in any of EH’s KT88 iterations?        Compare the top supports, plates, etc.      Differing construc... 
Hafler
You can use either of the main output, RCA, pairs (’Direct’ or ’Via Phones’).     If a headphone plug is inserted in the front panel’s 1/4", ’Phones’ jack; signal is disconnected from the rear panel’s, ’Via Phones’, RCAs.     Nice feature, If head... 
What frustrates you the most about seller’s for sale ads?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/dear-abby 
A pleading request to manufacturers of amplifiers and preamplifiers.
An OB/GYN is indicated. 
Soldering Panel mount Rca
Who manufactured your RCAs?    Link to the component page? 
NOS Tubes - Ecstasy or Agony
If they’re the staggered plate, copper post, bottom gettered K-Rs; they’ll be a tad less warm than the RCAs, with nice sound stage/detail recovery (a quiet tube).        Solid/clean extension on both ends of the spectrum.    Have fun! 
Soundstaging and Imaging: The Delusion about The Illusion
@hombre- The thread’s been dead, for going on three years.     You apparently felt it sufficiently, "important" to resurrect.     Get a life! 
Newbie question
Receiver Tape (and most, "processor") outs are full line-level circuits; not affected by (in circuit before) volume, balance, tone, etc controls.     Worthless, far as an output source for an amplifier, outside of the receiver’s Selector/Source sw... 
Which VTF Scale are you using?
Bought an Acoustech digital, a few years back.      Works great.