vair68robert
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| Why the cost increase? These are the most uninformative AUDIO forum responses ever !Building material prices !Not Healthcare , Not government spending , Not political ideologies .Think Covid , worker shortage , driver shortage , import taxes ,forest fires , material sho... | |
| Tavish Design Adagio Owners wjz5003I can't say because I don't use sub (s) , but more information would helpanyone that might be able to help .Are you using the shipped JJ tubes ? I'm guessing that you didn't have this issue with your previous phono preamp . | |
| Thiel Owners BeetleI have to ask , where any of the values on your resistors, capacitors or inductors changed ? When researching inductors of the same value both larger gauge wire and foil both had less resistance .As TT pointed out that those resistance chang... | |
| Thiel Owners Thank You Tom TYour knowledge and information keeps the Thiel legend alive and looking towards the future .So far only Rob's stock of ERSE coils ( which may or may not be 5-9s )and Solen are the only 18 and 20awg coil available .I've looked for th... | |
| Thiel Owners Thank You theaudiotweak TomRob | |
| Thiel Owners TomYour information about erse coils is depressing and frustrating but on their website they state they are using CDA 101 and Solen states they are using ≥ 99.99 % Purity Annealed Copper. But so far these are the purest copper coils I can find ,st... | |
| The Miller Carbon Story MCGreat and enlughtening conversation , while I have read many of yourposts I find that your skills are much greater than mine when it comes to making / upgrading tweeks , but I do get a lot of ideas of things to try .DIY'ing has it's own special ... | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! While upgrading componets ( external and internal ) generally give you better or more pleasing sound . Two tweeks that suprised me were replacing the weight on my Rega RB300 tonearm to an Expressimo that lowered the center of weight and replacing ... | |
| Thiel Owners To expand on my statement of interesting and dangerous ,I had expereimented with steel ballbearings after reading a short article in The Absolute Sound using steel shot in a box placed on a DAC .So using boxes out of wood I tried it on my Carver a... | |
| Thiel Owners theaudiotweakI had experimanted with parallel wires outside and inside of the speaker,I then went back and twisted the wires .To me the parrallel wires externally were a little better sounding ,but internally I found the twisted wires to be smooth... | |
| Clean AC power You need an occiliscope to see the dirt i.e. what looks like little lines going up and down along the AC arc making the sign wave look thick and scribbly because they are very small voltages .These lines can be in the mega Hz range and down to the... | |
| Thiel Owners Thank You Tom | |
| Thiel Owners TomYou mentioned the coils on the 2.4 not being as tight as original ,after removing both mid/tweeter crossovers at the same time I discovered that one has the original ERSE coil and the other has the newer version ( repair or that's all the new T... | |
| Thiel Owners Wow 10,000 posts , congradulations jafant you started one of the most followed threadon audiogons forum ! | |
| Thiel Owners johnhh" what I wanted back then "When getting back into listening to vinyl I tried to go back and build my dream system from the 80's all Carver electronics and all Americanwhere posible . I had re-capped both the amp and pre-amp ,installed new ... |