swampwalker
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| Potential seller's strange policy He's trying to hedge his bets on the shipping to make sure that it's not heavier than he thought after it's packed up. OTOH, if you are paying a %, it shouldn't matter how many invoices it's broken into. | |
| Luxman Class A Integrated Slight Buzzing Noise Most likely it is a mechanical noise from the transformer. Could be loose, could be from a slight amount of DC on the power line or could just be endemic to the particular transformer. It should not affect the sound. | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads A relatively new artist whose work I have recently discovered is Antje Duvekot. Her most recent albums are:The Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer (2009)Antje Duvekot LIVE from all over the place (2011)New Siberia (2012). | |
| List of Audio Tube Measured Noise Performance "High gain tubes will tend to have more noise than those that afford less gain"Truer words were never spoken but the real question is how much noise is introduced by different types of the same tube (high or low gain). | |
| List of Audio Tube Measured Noise Performance This is a great start, Scott. Maybe the manufacturers will start paying attention to these results, once they are more statistically robust. I know I will, my active gain MC phono stage uses 12AX7s. Well done. | |
| amp or preamp to extend upper end I think that there has been a lot of variation over the bast 10-12 years. My wife's 2002 325xi had an ongoing electrical problem but was one sweet driver. Felt like it could rev forever. She traded in on a 2011 328xi that was sluggish and the run ... | |
| MHDT Paradesea Repair? New Tube? I'll check to see if I have settings for the tube and will pm if I do. | |
| MHDT Paradesea Repair? New Tube? If you post your location, there might be a member nearby w a tester. I'm in the Hartford CT area and might be able to help if you are near there. | |
| What is the best OTL out there? I have owned Joule (VZN-80), Atma (M-60), and Berning (ZH-270), but not all at the same time. Tried running the Berning source direct and it did not make it for me. Had the Joule and Atma at the same time and both are excellent. In the system I ha... | |
| Ken Bernacky Stereo Surgeons The interesting thing is that here in CT, Geno IS god. | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Drewan77- From your posts above it looks like might have some advice for me as I consider taking this route to upgrading the SQ of my system which can read about here. I am considering actively crossing over the output from the pre-amp so as not t... | |
| Why are records still warped? WPC- Thanks for the information which explains this issue very well. | |
| System Help I would not rule out either wiring or amp power shortage. Easy to recheck wiring. But you also should remember that your listening space volume has increased by about 65% and room length has doubled! Those are big differences. How has your listeni... | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. Where you at Chakster? I've used the Zyrtec headamp w Azusa and now I have a Doshi all active gain mc phono stage. If you're in the Northeast U.S. We could run them both sto compare. I'm in CT (but not this week). | |
| Amplifier humming Hi Gnana- Some transformers hum. It can be caused by a variety of things, including some slight DC on the line, or by other aspects of "dirty" power resulting from things like dimmer switches, fluorescent lights, or certain kinds of motors on the ... |