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| Any Hagerman Bugle Power Supply PCB's out there? Hi Clio09,Are you using it on batteries? I've never heard it that way, but was told that it sounded "more rubust" with the Power Supply. I'm soon to be building my fourth Bugle soon, and have a good (I think) chassis design, and know of another th... | |
| Any Hagerman Bugle Power Supply PCB's out there? I heard today from Jim H that he's decided to order another batch of the Power Supply blank PCB's, so I'm off the hook. A very kind person offered to make one for me, using a Radio Shack blank PCB, but now he won't have to.I have four other phono ... | |
| Making Your Own 2D Diffusors I have a lot written up on diffusors, two main RPG kinds, one or two dimensional, both theory and practice, and I'm happy to send it out to people as MS Word attachments. This is before I've even read the original post in this thread, which I'll n... | |
| Are VTL Renaissance 80's convertible to triode? I apologize to everyone for posting the same question again--I'd forgotten that I'd already done it. sorry!Tom | |
| Triode conversion for VTL Renaissance 80 monos Thanks to all, especially to Mrtennis and Pryso. I may try the technician route. It may come down to whether the power transformer has a certain "tab", to judge by what it takes to convert a Dynaco Mk III or Mk IV or Stereo 70 to triode operation.... | |
| Triode conversion for VTL Renaissance 80 monos These are decades out of warrantee. I called the company this AM and they were most unhelpful. For $150 and shipping both ways, they'd look at one monoblock and SEE if it could undergo conversion to triode mode. You'd think someone there might kno... | |
| TVC Promethius versus Bent I've never heard the Promitheus, but have made a TVC using Stevens & Billington TX-102's supplied by Bent Audio when they could still be had. Since you ask about RVC's too, resistor-based passives, let me say that I found my TVC to outperform ... | |
| Poll - Active vs. Passive preamp I've built at least 15 passives of various kinds since giving up on a CAT SL-1 Signature with its truly horrible volume control, resistors on a rotary switch but not "true ladder", and recently built a TVC based on Stevens & Billington TX-102 ... | |
| Stand-alone phono amps? A "stand alone" phono preamp would presumably have no inputs other than for phono, as distinct from a "full feature" preamp, which, unlike a "line stage" one, would have provision for phono along with other inputs for CD, AM/FM tuner, and so on. A... | |
| DIY speaker enclosure, maybe TL? Thanks to everyone--I'll check out the recommended websites. I won't know which Accuton drivers until I have a slightly better idea of what's possible. I'd like to avoid a subwoofer, which suggests to me a 7" mid-bass unit rather than a 5" or 6" o... | |
| Where to start with room acoustics Have you done a resonant modes analysis of your room, as must be done by Everest in the book you mention? (He does several in Sound Studio Construction on a Budget.) It shouldn't be over your head--just a bunch of divisions to get the modes for ea... | |
| ideal room size This is a complicated issue, there being no one "right" size. See F. Alton Everest's Master Handbook of Acoustics, 4th edition, or his Sound Studio Construction on a Budget.Several versions of the "ideal" are given in one or the other of these boo... | |
| Atma Sphere I have M60 II.2's and use only half of the output tubes since 30 Wpc is okay for me. Not much heat--no problem with the amps sitting behind the speakers a fair distance away from the listening area. Of course there would be more heat with all eigh... | |
| Phono preamp advice. There is, or was, on Audiogon, an EAR 834P with extra tubes for a very good price--under $800. I have one and prefer it to an AHT DM-P phono preamp that cost more than three times as much retail. IMHO you couldn't go wrong with this choice, and co... | |
| Best Used Turntable for around 1K I was going to suggest a Rega 25 TT, but maybe you're jaded on Rega. But do you have good vibration control? The lack will wipe out big quality differences between turntables. I recently changed from a $550 retail air bladder-plus-roller bearing p... |