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| Amperex 6DJ8 tube construction Brent Jessee -from Audio Tubes - was kind enough to explain.The splatter shield prevented getter flash material from migrating down during the flashing process. Without the shield the flash material could stain the grid and/or plates and affect t... | |
| Amperex 6DJ8 tube construction After reading posts near the bottom of this discussion, it appears that it became the Wild West for NOS tubes in the 1990’s. Lots of re-branding and fakes going on. | |
| Amperex 6DJ8 tube construction Everybody - thanks for the info. Solving a mystery is always fun.With jeweler’s magnifying glasses, I wasn’t able find any codes - on any of the NIB/NOS Amperex 6DJ8’s in the yellow/green boxes. I looked everywhere - including the bottom and sides... | |
| Amperex 6DJ8 tube construction 'Made in Holland' is silkscreened on the one on the right. It matches several other ’Made in Holland’ silkscreens on NIB/NOS Amperex 6DJ8 orange globes that I purchased in the original yellow/green boxes, years ago. There are no date/factory etchi... | |
| The Most Digital Recording You Ever Heard unison77Yello ’Touch’ sounds nauseatingly ’digital’ in my gear - the recording is harsh with exaggerated sibilance in female voice...Zero harshness or sibilance or digitus in Yello’s ’Touch’ when played in my rig. Smooth as silk. Female vocals so... | |
| Clean AC power Household Circuitry: 101All household circuits are tied together at the circuit breaker panel. Kind of like a train switchyard. The rumbling of a train will be most severe on the track it’s traveling. But, the other tracks will still suffer the ef... | |
| Clean AC power Dirty power = Distortion (noise) comes from 3 primary sources:1) The utility company – coming into the house circuit breaker panel.2) Appliances within the house – eg: TV’s, computers, fluorescent lighting, refrigerators, HVAC, hair-dryers, etc. S... | |
| Adjusting the sonic fingerprint of a system. It’s better to set the volume @100% in the digital realm. Lower the gain in the analog realm. Lowering the volume in the digital realm reduces resolution - and may introduce negative artifacts. | |
| Second opinions — how have others (including non-audiophiles) helped you? Years ago, I moved to a new city and discovered that I lived near an audio reviewer. I contacted him by email and he graciously invited me over to his home. As soon as he turned on the music, a whole new auditory world opened up. It was immersive,... | |
| help on changing capacitors Michael Percy is the go-to guy for capacitors. His website isn’t slick. But, he supplies the best engineers in high-end audio. https://www.percyaudio.com/ | |
| Audiophile router configuration The OP is the creator of 'Fidelizer-Audio'. Any suggestions he offers should be seriously considered. | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? Below is a comment lifted from this Mojo Audio Mystique DAC thread. fuzzbutt1709-25-2020 2:54pmHi Everyone.Benjamin here: owner of Mojo Audio and designer of the Mystique series of DACs.The most important thing to remember is the DAC can only give... | |
| Digital XLR vs Digital RCA I remember last concert, the guy next to me claimed to his wife, that the sound is not as good in concert sa with his LP/Tube sound system doodle601-10-2020 8:30am"we have friends whose seats at the Myerson Symphony Hall in Dallas sport a brass so... | |
| USB sucks rixthetrickImagine if it were possible to have a totally solder free set of cables, or crossovers, amplifier etc. Cold welded USB, XLR cables and speaker cables.- Hot welded: Allnic Audio cables.- Ultrasonic welded: Blue Jeans cables. I am disappo... | |
| Speaker size and bass In other words, having bigger speaker doesn’t really help much in giving more or better bass, because we are constraint by the volume. Perhaps, a re-phrasing. The challenge is get all of the sound waves to arrive at the listening chair - at the s... |