russ69
Responses from russ69
| Can’t use any other tube??!!? "...No I'm just joking. BUT the valve (tube) tester will tell most of the story..."In high gain pre-amps good tubes can be noisy and they have to be specially selected for low noise. Good shops like Upscale will use special equipment just for this... | |
| When did you most enjoy the music? It's the same for me now at 66 as it was back in the day. A good record played low at 1am sends me right back. I have to force myself to go to bed, I just want to keep listening. The magic is still there. | |
| Your Top 10...Are the majority from when you were a teen? I'm not stuck in the 60s but I do play all my 60s psychedelic stuff a lot. | |
| CHALLENGE: Best speakers for playing 1812 Overture by Eric Kunzel with real CANON at 92+dB That track is called "Speaker Buster" and with good reason. | |
| Can’t use any other tube??!!? It's a pre-amp section that is sensitive to noisy tubes. Very common. Call Upscale audio and they will set you up with some good choices. | |
| Passive bi-amp question Can I ask a question? What do you hope to get that you are not getting now? | |
| Rogue Monoblocks That's a lot of power and heat to run a pair of Fortes. Are you using up the Atlas Magnum? | |
| Do you care about car audio? If your car is decent enough, you wont need a radio. Just saying. | |
| What's up with these AR-18Bs? (repair/replace???) On second thought, why don't you have them re-coned and call it good. | |
| Speaker arrangement terminology I’m sorry but I don’t agree. The first number is the number of channels, 2.0, 5.1, 7.1. It defines the system and the format. Adding speakers does not change the format. So for consistency, the second number should also be the number of channels. ... | |
| Bring my own preamp to an amp demo? A home demo is the only way, try to make that work. | |
| What's up with these AR-18Bs? (repair/replace???) I’d look for a pair of new replacement woofers if possible and affordable. | |
| Holographic Soundstage ? "...The sound you are looking for is balancing a system on a knife edge of tonal balance to have enough high end detail but not be harsh..."Let the amp run in for a few hours, they do gain focus after the new tubes get some hours on them. Also cha... | |
| An audiophile quality way split speaker wire for a sub connection Easy stuff really. The problem is you want to connect the speaker cables to the sub in a very clean way. So one way to do that is one cable run with bananas from amp to bananas on the the speakers. Then you can run from the speaker to the sub, wit... | |
| Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse? In this case my own built in biases would make it hard for me to evaluate. |