swampwalker
Responses from swampwalker
| To Tube or not to Tube...... You won't find phase angle in most manufacturer's specs, but if Stereophile's JA did a review, he usually provides that info graphically. but like Unsound says, they are likely to be fine for tubes. | |
| At What Age Does An Audiophile Buy His Last Amp? Tbg- I hear ya. I'm beginning to have second thoughts about storing speakers I'm not using, but like too much to sell, in the basement! Getting 'em DOWN w a handtruck w/o a crash was a bitch, not sure what I'll do when I want to fire em up again. | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? Maybe it's just me, but if I had three very expensive amps from the same company require expensive repair as a consequence of an unavoidable and unpredictable aging process (output tube failures, like light bulb failures, are inevitable), I'd thin... | |
| Quad ESL 57 system upgrade help requested Dkarmeli also gives some good advice, which I must admit I thought about while writing the post above. It's an equally valid approach. Part of the decision process for you, I would think, is whether you consider the journey as part of the process.... | |
| Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110? There are lots of great reliable tube amps out there. In the past 10 or so years I've had Berning, Atma=sphere, Lectron, RAM, Joule and VAC. I've never had a catastrophic failure. One time, one of the big Russian MIG tubes "ran away" on my Joule w... | |
| Decisions, decisions.... I'm not an vinyl expert but unless you enjoy tinkering w your 'tables, I'd second/third the idea of getting one table, but I think you might focus on one that can handle 2 or 3 arms or get an arm w interchangeable headshells or arm wands. | |
| High Pitched Electronic Noise from AC/Heater Unit Are you getting the noise through your speakers when the heater/AC is running or is it the heater/AC that is actually emitting the noise? | |
| Quad ESL 57 system upgrade help requested I could go as high as $50,000 but...I want a wonderful system that I can spend my time listening to that won’t put me to in the poor house.Wow, my first thought was that I'd like to live in your poor house...but then I started adding up the retail... | |
| To Tube or not to Tube...... "Should I use the 4 ohm or 8 ohm tap?"Yes ;-)Only your ears can say for sure. | |
| popping noise Reasonable probability that you are hearing noises from your sources as they shut down. General rule of thumb would be source-pre-amp for turn on and amp-pre-source for shut down. | |
| To Tube or not to Tube...... Ebuzz- They would be considered 6 ohm w a relatively flat impedance curve. Together w the 90 db sensitivity (and assuming no really unusual phase angles) they would be considered "tube friendly". | |
| I need help selling an item Why don't you pay for an ad like the rest of us? | |
| Black Discus - Free Sample Alert Hey, dude- Why you re-running the exact same post you placed a month ago? Smells a little fishy to me. Just my $0.02. | |
| Tube preamp question Duckman- Not to complicate matters but according to this poston AVS Forum, the MC-12B is not "a 'truely' balanced circuit as Lexicon feels that is the wrong way to build a product. The DACs (on both the MC-12 and MC-12B) are run in dual differenti... | |
| Tube preamp question I have never used a Lexicon but I am "thinking" that the analog pass-thru feature MAY indicate that those inputs do not route the signal to the digital signal processing section or DACs in the Lexicon. But I "think" it might route the signal thru ... |