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| New York HiFi Show: Tubes and Turntables I was at the show on Sunday and was disappointed, although not surprised, by the small number of exhibitors and rooms. Evidently the high cost of staging a show in NYC is a major obstacle to attracting many manufacturers and retailers, and even ma... | |
| Output Caps For Dehavilland Ultraverve Ah, but am I correct about the higher total capacitance driving longer cable runs better? I believe a gold star is in order only if both of my assumptions were true... | |
| Output Caps For Dehavilland Ultraverve I'm currently switching back and forth between two amps depending on my state of audiophile neurosis at the particular moment. One is a pair of DeHavilland 50A tube mono blocks with an input impedance of 100K, the other a Clayton 100S solid state... | |
| Output Caps For Dehavilland Ultraverve Thanks, Bill. $900 for two caps, in addition to being rather pricey, does seem like a bit of overkill for a $3K preamp. Or maybe not. I have no objection to paralleling the caps and will probably wind up using your original suggestion. Would I ... | |
| Output Caps For Dehavilland Ultraverve Steven - Which Duelunds did you use? I see that there are a couple of design variations. Kara, as well as Bill (grannyring) recommended 2.2uf. Did you use a bypass cap as well? The Duelunds are rather large, any issues fitting them in the chass... | |
| Output Caps For Dehavilland Ultraverve Thanks for your expertise and help. Bill, would I need the Jupiter cap rated at 100VDC or 600VDC? Also, while it is impossible to put an absolute objective value on the benefit of using the bypass cap, how much of a subjective sound quality diff... | |
| To Float or not to Float... Jim - My only front end source is a Resolution Audio Opus 21 cd player which uses a three prong power cord which presumably grounds it. The cd player and preamp are both plugged into a power strip which I was told is recommended for use with Naim... | |
| To Float or not to Float... Jim -I have always used the preamp in the "float" position, whether it was with a solid state or tube (including the DeHavilland mono blocks) amp. My impression was that sonically this was the preferred position, and as I mentioned the manual for... | |
| To Float or not to Float... Thanks, Jim. I also use the preamp with a solid state amp that has no ground lifting switch, and keep the preamp switch in the "float" position. Any danger in that?? | |
| To Float or not to Float... Thanks for all of your responses. Cleeds triggered the solution when he (or she) wrote "a properly grounded power cord", which reminded me that I was having intermittent problems with the connecting plug of the preamp's power cord. Swapped out t... | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? BEL 1001 | |
| Best Tubed Preamp For A Warm, Rich Sound, Yet Still Detailed and Agile Whitestix - Is the Shuguang Treasure CV-181-Z a direct replacement for the 6SN7 in any circuit that uses that tube (I have a DeHavilland Ultraverve which uses one 6SN7)? | |
| Favorite guitar players not named...... Richard Thompson should be at the top of anyone's list...Mark Knopfler, although he may be more of a "household name" than not. | |
| Linear Tube Audio- Any feedback on their amps/ Preamp? Scott -Are your observations the same with the Proacs as with the Omegas? Did you find either one to be more synergistic than the other (the Omegas being higher efficiency and higher impedance)? | |
| Soundtracks that you listen all the way through and it's all great. The NaturalLocal HeroCalGrizzly ManInside Llewyn DavisRushmore+1 on One Trick Pony and Hard Days Night |