swampwalker
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| Speakers with Cary 300 SEI Hi Lex. You will love the Cary (at least I do). Give us a budget and you'll get lots of good suggestions. | |
| Time for new tubes.. which ones? The 12AU7s have less gain and that's why you have more precise volume control which will likely result in better channel tracking. Aside from the TAD thread, you might also check out the detailed descriptions of the various brands of 12A?7s availa... | |
| Top Choices Under 2K Dac and Transport I agree that the Classe' DAC-1 is a great unit at $1K. | |
| Do Cables Need to Be Same Size for MF Tube Buffer? Should not be a problem. | |
| Time for new tubes.. which ones? If you tell us what tube types they are (not brands, but tube #s, i.e., 12AT7, 6922, etc) and what brand is in there now, we can probably help. Otherwise, no chance. | |
| Search classifieds by condition? AFAIK, this is not possible. | |
| HELP Digital bad, vinyl good??? Sean- I could never disagree with your analysis because I have no knowledge in this area, but I will say that the distortion sounded like it was mostly in the vocal frequency range. and as far as I know, the BAMs (several generations ago) were opt... | |
| Top ten tube amps Raquel makes a very good point. For that matter, the OTLs have a limited variety of speakers for which they are best suited. Within that limit, I would certainly keep Joule on the list. | |
| HELP Digital bad, vinyl good??? I have no idea. Called VAC this am and they had a couple of troubleshooting ideas, including the balanced/se output switch being in the wrong position. When I rolled the rack to see the switch, I found the S-BAM dangling w/o a pc. If Sean or any o... | |
| Why Tube Pre-SS amp over SS Pre- Tube amp? Tz&- Mosfet (sp correct) is a type of power transistor, not a circuit type. | |
| HELP Digital bad, vinyl good??? OK, boys and girls. The answer you've been waiting for....My BAM was unplugged. No idea what that could have had the effect that it did. Plugged the sucker in, switched it over to AC/charge and away we went. Post christmas music tip, new Joan Osbo... | |
| balanced pre amp Balanced refers to a different circuit design. Others will fill in the details on that. All pre-amps are NOT balanced. Balanced circuits require cables with XLR connectors. One known advantage is that balanced i/cs are less susceptible to noise on... | |
| Why Tube Pre-SS amp over SS Pre- Tube amp? Another factor in that paradigm is that tubes in a pre generally last 1000s of hours, while in many power amps, their lifetime is more limited. For that reason, cost of NOS power tubes is much higher. So total operating cost can be higher for a tu... | |
| Top ten tube amps Audiojoy4- I have not had the pleasure of hearing Audionote or Blue Cirlce outside of a show, so I cannot comment on your rankings, but as for your endorsement of them as "emotionally involving". IMO, that is the THE criteria for gear selection. I... | |
| HELP Digital bad, vinyl good??? I shall. Will be calling Kevin Hayes at VAC tomorrow, probably. |