undertow
Responses from undertow
| differences between tube and solid state designs Easy, Old school tubes themselves were different, most of the new 5 dollar tubes today sound far more solid state to me, and these are mostly used in new designs, very few amp manufactures today go with NOS tubes(Cost, availability, reliability et... | |
| Is there any benefit to a tubed phono stage? Benefit, of course!! Solid states are very good ones as well, but with tubes comes Tube rolling and finding what flavor you like, yeah it costs, and yeah it could take some time and knowledge to find the right tubes, but bottom line just like any ... | |
| Good way to dampen tonearm? The real issue is your adding quite a bit of weight, especially with Water, you might not have enough counterweight, especially if your cartridge is a higher gram cartridge. Beyond that yeah permanancy of it is dangerous, and how would you really ... | |
| What cartridges have you tried with the MH MMF7? Well, watch out going over 8 grams... I was told up to 10 gram would be fine, but guess what I had to purchase the 90 gram heavy weight for the Project tone arm and it works just barely, and had to come from sumiko California, the only distributor... | |
| How do I decide on a CD player or adding a dac? From some expereance with and owning odyssey, DAC-AH, and many speakers and pre's.. Gotta tell you that the Passive line is gonna be thin in general, and those speakers are going to add to it.. Come down to that DVD player and its way to much plas... | |
| amp -preamp combination question. I had bad results when trying to pair SS Pre to Tube amp.. Much better match in my expereance with Tube Pre, SS amp. | |
| Intergrated or Solid State Whats The Difference ? I think he did mix Up terminology HYBRID is the thing left out here, Using Tubes for the input section and Solid STate output, by the way an nice design for the budget pieces in an integrated amp or preamp.. | |
| Preamp Caps?Auricap,Mundorf, Hovland, jensen,solen Jeffrey, I really appreciate your time!I am not a pro and I am finding now this might be super effective upgrade because:#1- I threw in the new mullard tubes last night after I received them, Wow night and day! Big difference in bass and space, ve... | |
| Preamp Caps?Auricap,Mundorf, Hovland, jensen,solen How about these? PPT Theta AudioCap, look pretty good too.Most of these types only come in 2.0 uF so would I need to buy 2 of these and then use a .22 uF in parallel? What is the best way to attach the cap to the board physically, Silicon, Double ... | |
| Preamp Caps?Auricap,Mundorf, Hovland, jensen,solen Are the cardas not teflon? Well for affording them I don't have that issue as much as diminishing returns at some point, I have a fishey feeling they would not be double the performance of some of these caps costing half the price already at 100 b... | |
| Preamp Caps?Auricap,Mundorf, Hovland, jensen,solen Edit: Opps nevermind V-cap is out of control cost, I did not think anybody had a cap that high in cost at such low values, okay... I don't know how big they are either, might not have any kind of space for them especially since I would probably ha... | |
| Preamp Caps?Auricap,Mundorf, Hovland, jensen,solen Atmasphere, Yeah the V-cap forgot about that bad boy, could be a good choice and actually a little better pricing maybe, thanks.Jeffreybehr,, There is Qty.2 (2.2 mF) 200 volt auricaps in there, not huge, pretty common value and easy to get it seem... | |
| digital output crackling I had a similar issue and found out when I jiggled the Connection on the back of the dac it would knock out the crackle. Could be the RCA fitting on the cable or the shield on the Jack itself moving or something weird.. . I found another cable wor... | |
| if you had 2500,what player stands out???? Go with a DAC, its a far better investment and then try anything from a 99.00 DVD player to a 2000.00 transport and make a decision.. I will say this the Dac-Ah's for little money, which are also an Audiomirror DAC being a 16 bit filterless NON-OS... | |
| Zu Definition cable recommendation By the Way just to qualify my statement, I have owned Kimber, Audioquest, XLO stuff all in the 500-1000.00 range, however not on the definitions, and I would say my results with the libtec's are at least what I would get with any of those on my pr... |