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| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up Resistance and capacitance are some of the electrical properties that change with temperature. For the electronic equipment to be able to properly measure and provide accurate and consistent results, these instruments must warm up and stabilize... | |
| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up Some components operate at their peak performance at a specific stabilized temperature. The same way an athlete warms up prior to competition or exercise. | |
| Can I cheat and not get caught? Do you own a dremel? | |
| homemade turntable vibration isolation platform I had to look up what a "yurt" was and based on google's response, I could only imagine that equipment isolation is only one of your system challenges. | |
| Power amps with fans -- maintenance? Frequent cleaning of the fan will promote a longer life. The fan blades become unbalanced when loaded with debris and will put undo stress on the bearings. On older equipment, you can replace the fans with better and lower noise fans for very litt... | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung Aren't Psvane and Shugaung the same OEM manufacturer? You can read the history of Psvane here:http://psvanetube.com/site/who-is-psvane/ | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung All today's expensive tube gear (ARC, McIntosh, Luxman, Jadis, CJ ...) come with current production tubes! That is due to the fact that manufactures need a source of currently available reliable tubes. People seek NOS to fine tube their equipmen... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio I can appreciate both sides of the story. In spike of initial good intentions expressed and demonstrated by both parties, sometimes things just don't work out. I think that this is the case in this instance. | |
| Audio Research Ref 6 SE I always thought that a company's "reference series" of products was their best effort. It would appear that this is not the case with ARC. As soon as ARC releases a new Ref X component it is followed up with a SE model which implies they could... | |
| fair complaint about Audiogon, violating no guidelines, removed Audiogon is a privately held company...their rules. | |
| 80s Levinson Gear - Best Repair/Refurbish? Historically, the issue with Levinson is that they will not release schematics or a parts list to non-authorized repair depots. | |
| Level mismatch in speakers when using tube amp I know that you tried different tubes, but did you try using the same tubes and then swapping the Left to Right channels? | |
| OMG CAT has a web page!! @robert53, if you upgrade your current Signature to the Black Path (or as close as possible), the upgrade will cost more than you originally paid for the SL1 Signature. | |
| OMG CAT has a web page!! Very basic website. Owned a SL Signature a few years back, very nice preamp and was a stretch purchase for an average consumer, but attainable. The new Black Path series of preamp are no longer affordable for most consumers....too bad. | |
| Measuring turntable speed @optimize, how does one know if the 3150 hz tone was cut by the lathe at exactly 33.3333 rpm? |