terry9
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| Upgrading tubes You might try a 6DJ8 variant which was specified for the high end of its day: Tektronix, HP, German Post Office. By far the best small signal tubes I've ever heard were Telefunken 6922's, specced for HP test equipment, the stuff that put men on th... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Halcro, you ask if I run OTL. Well, I did, and they sounded fine, but I decided on home brew, where cost is less of an object. Before building anything, I decided to optimize the system (instead of the pieces thereof), and found that I could impro... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? I propose that Ralph be enrolled on the calendar of saints. His restraint is supernatural - a miracle thrice renewed!! | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Well, Ralph, your explanations are perfectly intuitive to me. When I replaced my TT plinth, a rigid coupling of the platter bearing and the tonearm seemed intuitively obvious - I used a sandwich of heavy, precision aluminum plate, with the bearing... | |
| Has there been any inexpensive item that enhanced your system's sound? Dramatic changes playing with resonance control, on the motor pulley and especially on the tonearm (Trans-Fi air bearing). The Koetsu changes character from mellow to aggressive, depending on the application of small fragments of sticky jelly pad,... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Ralph is absolutely correct. It follows that the tonearm and the platter must be in communication, and the faster the better. Beryllium anyone? | |
| InfiniCaps or V cap upgrades for ARC LS7 I agree with DG. MIT makes caps that sound good, mainly the RTX (styrene and tin) and PPFXS (polypropylene and tin). Before spending big bucks, you might want to try some smaller valued caps in your system, and see what works in your system. Some ... | |
| Do supertweeters matter when we cant hear past 15,000 hz? Sorry to be late to the party Veroman, but better than never?While I think that just about everything already said is true, there is another aspect to consider: the crossover. As Ralph (atmasphere) points out, rolloff causes phase shift, which is ... | |
| Bryston 4B green clipping lights blinking PHD, I meant that it was the 4BSST which I abused. Yes, I did mainly play classical at low volume, but that abuse was a doozy, and the Bryston simply shrugged it off. | |
| Bryston 4B green clipping lights blinking PHD, I owned both 3BSST and 4BSST, and never had a problem, even when I abused the 4B. Before I bought, I talked to someone at the factory, burned an hour of his time, and he invited me to call back if I had more questions. It was the president.I ... | |
| Help! My system is very bright it hurts my ear Audiolad, I agree that Canare makes excellent cables, and use it myself (StarQuad). But I think that it's too neutral for the OP - what is it, about 200 pF per metre? I think that the OP needs more than that, like a box store interconnect, and a s... | |
| Help! My system is very bright it hurts my ear Hello Lowrider.I think that the very best thing is to get the OP quickly and cheaply to a good place, where he is motivated to find the root cause. I certainly agree that the root cause is the big prize, but it may also be a big challenge.Should h... | |
| Help! My system is very bright it hurts my ear Lot of good ideas here, but I would start with $20. I use the trick in my system for exactly this purpose.Buy a cheap component to act as a filter to attenuate high frequencies, known to techies as a low pass filter. Fortunately, these are readily... | |
| Why are record cleaners so expensive? DG, you are going to LOVE that Elmasonic. Nothing like German precision, here as elsewhere. I clean for 12 minutes at 80 KH, more for the very dirty. Enjoy!Steve, it's very simple to test: clean a record the conventional way, dip it half into the ... | |
| Why are record cleaners so expensive? Well, Sim, I'll take your question at face value.First, an ultrasonic machine is not a glorified vacuum cleaner. Not remotely.Second, sonic difference. I used to clean with a two wand method on a VPI. Now I clean at 80KHz and hear as big a differe... |