tonywinsc
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| What tube pre amp match up with a solid state amp Wolfman; with the amp or preamp powered off, measure resistance between pins 1 and 3 with an Ohmmeter. If you see something less than 1 Ohm then the pins are tied together like Atmasphere says. If the meter reads open (infinity) then it must be a ... | |
| What tube pre amp match up with a solid state amp Atmasphere, I believe you. The whole point of true balanced should be to eliminate IC wire/wire length influences. I have a hybrid preamp with both SE and BAL outputs. I used high quality BAL cables for many years; but occasionally I would put som... | |
| Best Counterweight Position? The goal of the tonearm is to provide a stable platform for the phono cartridge to track in the groove at the correct geometry. So the first order of business is to set up the tonearm overhang and alignment so that the stylus remains at the tangen... | |
| Best Counterweight Position? What Raul says is correct. Moving the mass further from the pivot point increases the inertia of the tonearm. The Effective Mass calculation for your tonearm actually is based on inertia. So as you changed the tonearm mass in order to move the wei... | |
| Zero Antiskate vs Stylus Wear Raul, your point is well taken. That is what makes vinyl playback so interesting. Perfection gets boring after a while. Something so special or romantic about the glow of the preamp tubes, the spinning platter and those golden tones- with a little... | |
| Zero Antiskate vs Stylus Wear This link is to an old post where I made some comments about Anti-skating. This article is very good and the article's conclusions, fortunately for me, are about the same as I stated in my post.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&132... | |
| Wow/flutter issues P3-24 measure motor accuracy? The Timeline Strobe does not measure Wow&Flutter; only average speed. | |
| Need help with ARC sp16 and tubes I had never looked closely at the SP-16. I looked it up and I was suprised to see that it is very similar internally to my old SP-6b. Like a modern version of it. The SP-6b used 6 12AX7 tubes configured the same way. Based on that, my experience s... | |
| Recording quality by decade That was fun. Now I have to play it tonight. I have some 60s rock that sounds a bit thin; but several of my 70s and 80s rock has plenty of bass- even gut punching bass if I crank it enough. The bass in the mid 70s Heart albums is exquisite in my m... | |
| Recording quality by decade Elizabeth, I must disagree with your comments regarding bass. One word: IN-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. | |
| Recording quality by decade If I were to generalize based upon my experience, Classical and Jazz recordings from the 50s up to 1980 are generally superb. I don't have a lot; but friends of mine that were deep into classical and another into Jazz had some outstanding mono rec... | |
| Is audio a kind of spiritual journey? Being a one time boat owner, I learned that the one thing better than owning a boat is having a friend who owns a boat. I had a buddy once who had a fantastic stereo. After about 2 hours of listening, he walked me to the door. I think the boat thi... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm I have a pragmatic question. I did some maintenance on my tt last weekend. I checked screw torques and surprisingly, all of the armboard screws turned about a quarter turn. I got it all back together and dialed in speed perfect. All is looking goo... | |
| It's all over now, baby blue. Or is it not? Some of my best memories were holding my boys on my lap while they listened to music with me. Once the pre-teen years hit, our music tastes diverged. I just stayed away from tube power amps to avoid any hazards, but they knew and understood to not... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Hi Ketchup,I'm not sure how else to say it. If you have a timeline or someone who has a timeline could do that test- measure after 20 minutes and then do a 2 hour measurement. See if the per rotation error calculates out the same or not. That woul... |