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| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I don't have any trouble seeing how important the woofer inductor (low-pass) is sonically. What surprised me was that the high-pass inductor is also very important. I tried a number of different chokes on my woofer before settling on the North Cre... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I followed Volleyguy's lead regarding vintage chokes and swapped in some old Altec iron-core chokes from the late '70s or early '80s. They replaced Jantzen 15g. P-Core (ferrous powder) chokes as the shunt element in my high-pass crossover. The val... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil For another perspective, I avoid bypass caps whenever possible for the simple reason that I can always hear them. They add a discontinuity very similar to adding a super-tweeter to a full-range speaker system. There is a heightening of treble exte... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy1, That's interesting about the vintage inductor. While I am waiting for my 7.5uf CAST caps to break in, I plan on trying some old Altec iron core chokes in place of the Jensen choke in my high-pass crossover.I notice that no one in this ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil My pair of 7.5uf CAST caps arrived today right on schedule. I will be trying them out this weekend as the main high-pass crossover cap in my high-efficiency speakers. It will replace a blend of 6.8uf Mundorf Supreme and 1.0uf Duelund CAST. That bl... | |
| The Divine your vinyl of the week Some of my essentials include:Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra, Columbia CL 652 (recorded 1939-41)Gene Ammons--Light, Breezy and Moody, Mercury-Wing MGW 12156 (recorded 1947-48)Johnny Hartman--The Voice That Is, Impuls... | |
| Speaker Cables With SET Amps Truly there is no one correct answer. In my case, my preferred speaker cable is the same with my 1-watt SET as with my 50 watt Push-Pull amps. So far my ancient Wireworld Eclipse has bested all others I've tried including Auditorium 23. And it is ... | |
| EL34 quad for LM Audio 211 I love the sound of my Genalex reissue KT77s. Full-bodied and warm, very good detail and dynamics. Plus long life and readily available. | |
| Need Recommended AMP for Spendor S100 I have SP100's which are pretty much the same as your S100's, and I have found the Spendors to be very easy to drive. I have used them with amps ranging from SET tube amps with 8 watts or less to, at the other extreme, a Classe CA300 with 300 watt... | |
| Who remembers the FULTON cables? One important fact not mentioned above is that Fulton's cables all came in precise lengths which were multiples of 57" (plus a small fraction). This was true of both interconnects and speaker cables. The speaker cables worked out to roughly 14' an... | |
| What amp stands for Cary monoblocks? When I owned Cary 40M monoblocks, putting them on a Sound Anchors stand was a major improvement. Bass was firmer and more powerful, mids and treble were cleaner and more detailed, and the transformers no longer buzzed. | |
| Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge The estimated lifetime of 1000-1200 hours has held true in my experience. Most recently I had my Benz LP retipped by SS after it developed some mistracking. I calculated that it was in the 1200 hour range. SS reported that the stylus had significa... | |
| tonearm + cartridge for custom lenco 75 Thomas Schick 12" should work well. See Lenco forum. | |
| LPs for a high resolution check? One of my favorites is a 1962 George Shearing live album on Capitol---San Francisco Scene. As my system resolution has improved over the years, I am able to hear more of the background sounds. More important, however, is Shearing's introduction of... | |
| Tube Amplifier for Thiel Using a tube preamp with ss power amps does give you some sense of "tube sound" but the amps are even more important in that respect. Most of the time I had the Classe amp, I used an ARC LS-2. Probably not the best match but that's what it was. |