russ69
Responses from russ69
| Bin dug noisy records. Does it diminish your enjoyment? Yes it does and that is why I switched to CDs decades ago. A silent background and a continuous hour of play was important to me. | |
| Tubes for Magnepan’s. "...but tried a parasound A21+ and which handles all kinds of music with ease and is much more dynamic..."Plus one | |
| Tubes for Cary V12 amps. I have had good luck with the Mullard reissues. I have a set for my six-pacs but haven't needed them yet. Nicely priced also. | |
| ADC XLM mkII Cartridge. Should I bother... I'd let that one go. | |
| Clear vinyl vs. regular black vinyl No idea but I would think the materials used by the pressing companies would be the cheapest material that got the job done correctly (i.e. black vinyl). On the other hand I'm sure there are better materials out there but they might be cost prohib... | |
| Cut lower frequency to help my bookshelf speakers As MC kindly pointed out the OP has his back against the wall and is still trying to push the wall harder. In audio, when you get to this point you have to make BIG changes. Big loudspeakers and big amps, there is no way to fine tune a system that... | |
| Tubes for Magnepan’s. I've only had a few tube preamps, a Head, a Conrad Johnson PV, a couple of Audio Research, and a Cary SLP-98. I kept the Cary. In the budget preamp segment I would look at the Quicksilver but I have never heard that one myself. | |
| Tubes for Magnepan’s. I'm a big fan of tube based systems and I have run MMGs and .7s with tube amps. I'm not such a big fan of high power tube amps though, due to the heat and expense of running quads, sixes, and octets of big power tubes (and I own a pair of six-pacs... | |
| KT150s in a Preamp Design? You can use big power tubes in a pre-amp. Remember a preamp is just a low power control amplifier. It's a bit of overkill because a preamp doesn't need to make the kind of power a large power tube can produce. No idea on the sound quality though. | |
| Bose 1801 I have no clue but that's an old amp. I was at the debut of that amp at the LA show, man that was a long time ago...damn, I'm old.. | |
| Mega dollar systems. 200k on up. What are their professions? "...What are their professions?..."My Dad use to say; I don't know what he does but he must be doing a lot of it! | |
| Thinking of a Schiit Freya + and Vidars, to Power Martin Logan ESLs "...I’ve found that tubes, while will drive the speakers, just aren’t up to it unless you spend a lot of $$..."The little Electromotion ESLs are a little easier to drive than the larger models. Worse case is 1.6 ohms at 20KHz. You want a solid amp... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? "...Sorry but BS alert. A watt is a watt unless the specs are juiced differently..."Yes a watt is a watt. There is also "soft" clipping of the tube amp but that has nothing to do with the amps output if measured the same way. But what is different... | |
| Rethm speakers, bass amplification "...Eaglejo, with the bass modules disconnected, do the drivers produce any bass at all?..."My guess would be no. | |
| How to find the min and max bending radius of a cable. Only the manufacturer can tell you this because the wire assembly is most likely proprietary. |