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| Is a tube phono better than ss? Nice story Ralph. I'm not sure whether it means active EQ is always inferior though. My everyday tube phono uses passive eq and does not have any negative feedback, but I also have a very conventional 12AX7 phono with RIAA in the feedback loop, an... | |
| Is a tube phono better than ss? I can't imagine life without a good tube phono preamp. Tubes seem uniquely good at preserving the subtle micro-dynamics that make LPs sound like live music.Now, about the so-called tube noise. I have to disagree respectfully with some of the poste... | |
| Upgradying Tube Preamp I agree with Jmcgrogan2. The linestage in my experience is the most critical piece of electronics in the system. In the past few decade I have had the privilege of trying out a mumber of Phono preamps, linestages and power amps. There were a numbe... | |
| What is your most beautiful component? My Emotive Audio Vita amplifiers with tiger maple bases. Picture is on my system page. | |
| aunt corey buffer preamp Interesting. I built one shortly after the article came out (the mag was Stereophile) and I thought it sounded too "transistory" even after a long burn in time. It didn't sound bad but didn't warrant the over-the-top excitement in Corey's writeup ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil My crossover uses 4 resistors, all in the high-pass circuit (tweeter crossover). Two of them are an attenuation network immediately following the actual crossover components (one cap and one choke since it's a 2d order crossover). I use a Mills 12... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I have tried standard Duelund resistors in my speaker crossovers, but not CAST. I don't believe there was a higher grade of Duelund resistors available when I bought mine but I could be wrong.In any case, the standard Duelund resistor is a mixed b... | |
| rushton Interesting idea Rush. In my case, most of my equipment was designed and built by one-man "companies." These include:Thom Mackris----Galibier turntablesTri Mai----Triplanar tonearmsFred Volz----Emotive Audio DesignSamuel Furon---Ocellia cablesI sh... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil That is called a "Zobel network." You probably have a resistor in the range of 8 to 20 ohms in series with the Solen, and this pair is after the woofer choke and in parallel with the woofer. This network counters the woofer's tendency to have a ri... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil The shunt components in a multi-order crossover (2d, 3rd, 4th order) are very important sonically, but not to the same degree as the series components. Put another way, the parallel components make a major difference, the series components make a ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy, As to why the linestage coupler should be more critical sonically than the phono couplers, I really have no idea. That's simply what I have observed. But this is consistent with my experience generally that the linestage is the single m... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy, it appears we are hearing the same things with the CAST caps. As good as they are, and overall they are the best sounding cap I have ever used, the CAST caps are not perfect. We both notice less air and sparkle compared to some other ca... | |
| Tonearm for London Reference The Decca International sounded great with my old Decca 4RC and Mk5. So did a modified Rabco ST-4 linear tracking arm. | |
| Best step up transformer for Benz Micro LP S I have a Benz LP which has the same electrical specs as the LP-S. It is not a low-impedance MC, and it seems to work best with loading equivalent to 500 to 1000 ohms. I use Jensen 44DX stepups which have a 1:10 ratio. When connected to a standard ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Grannyring, I agree that in some instances the cap values can be responsible for a change in tonal balance. The smaller value cap has a higher -3db frequency. But in my test I used a very high impedance load (330K) so this shouldn't be a factor.I ... |