westcoastaudiophile
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| If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers @jsalerno277 "The reason is that an effectively larger diameter has less inductance since it has a larger cross-sectional area” - more important is how close positive and negative wires are, the closer wires are (twisting helps), the lower loop i... | |
| Help me mod my tube amp I would be careful on trying to find genuine-matched NOS tubes. number of NOS offered these days exceeds former production! | |
| Help me mod my tube amp I would add output transformers to try.. Luxman/Tango/other good-ones.. | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @coltrane1 +1 LOL | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @atmasphere with all my respect to you and your wonderful creations, I like to add more details to this, somewhat important, discussion: 1) I think it’s pointless do discuss effects caused by “most cables/cords/wirings” without bringing up techni... | |
| 1 meter speaker cables As funny as it sounds, shorter is better! The key driver of going mono-blocks path is an opportunity to shorten speaker cables. Good speaker cables, like Kimber-Kable 12TC, allow to keep performance with longer cables. 12TC at 8ft length has 0.0... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @russbutton never had Linn or “uncle Steve” LOL. guilty, I have tube Luxman amp in my system for few winter months to enjoy tube sound! | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @jl35 +1 on focusing and testing in details any changes, sometimes negative upgrades etc! | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @russbutton “It's just that the price tag is significant” Pleeese don't tell that to my spouse! :-) LOL | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? thanks audition__audio! btw, after few decades of being sound/analog designer, a.s.r. is not my reference or guide at all! enjoy the audio-hobby! | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @soix enjoy your ears! pathetic unsubstantiated comments will not help you here at AG! | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @soix would love to see your blind test report results! | |
| Would you put the same 12AX7 tubes for both onboard phono and line amp of an integrated? OP: keeping both units periodically maintained, signals tested, is more important than matching similar tubes in all separates! After 100hr SS devices are stable in terms of performance for next 50000hrs, while tube stuff needs checkup for every ... | |
| I am sad @samureyex ..sorry to hear it! Is it the same amp you’ve used for speaker cable break-in experiments? | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @russbutton agree on all points, but (some) vinyl records give me live music feel, which sterile digital does not have.. |