wolfie62
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| The smallest tube amp So, I can tape 2 tubes to my $30 iPod and achieve the same sound.Ive got a collection of “peanut tubes”. Perhaps I need to start looking for sockets. | |
| Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment. Yes, you can. I do it all the time.I have 107 cartridges, at least that many styli that I evaluate, compare, review, and enjoy. I have 17 TTs that I mount them in with varying arm masses and configurations.My equipment is not expensive, and hardly... | |
| Possible Cartridge Suspension Collapse? Long live the replaceable stylus!!!This is just one reason I don’t have any MC cartridges.Ive been relaxing and enjoying the music from vinyl for over 50 years. Tidal doesn’t have half my collection. If playing vinyl records was tedious and troubl... | |
| There us a Worldwide Panic on Availability of Vacuum Tubes Was talking to my dad this past weekend. He's 97. He used to repair radios and tvs as a hobby. Worked for NASA as an engineer for guidance systems. He gave me some interesting info and history. I have his tube tester and his whole library of vacuu... | |
| How to design a high end crossover… I wind my own inductors. Easy peasy.I have a capacitance board. Any value +/- 10 uF. Same for non-inductive resistors.I always use 2nd order. Not L-R.Its painless. | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier Carver knows what parts really make a difference…..and which ones DONT. Go ahead and chase your tail. Knock yourself out! Placebos and sugar pills will make it sound “sublime!” | |
| New speakers dilemma for vinyls... Heeelp! :))) This is a dumb post. Good speakers don’t care what the source material is. Someone please explain to the OP that speakers don’t cater to “vinyls” or polycarbonate, or to Mylar-oxide streaming, or to anything else. They just reproduce what they’re ... | |
| Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why. Funny. I just gave up looking for a truly great LP! I have a copy, but apparently it’s rare. 1958. RCA Living Stereo, one of RCA’s first batch of brand new stereo recordings, released in March 1958. The first stereo LP was released by Audio Fideli... | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Warmest speaker cables I’ve heard are the 0000 AWG fine-stranded welding cables I use. BTW, also the most neutral cables I’ve ever used. | |
| speakers for classic receiver This is a dumb thread. A great amp can power great speakers. Any great speakers. Any Classic speakers.The Sansui’s are not great amps, though. | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? After Class D, then what? Then everyone will be looking for that great sound they *used to get* from class A and AB amps!!!!LOL!!!!!! | |
| If you own quality monitor speakers you want to read this new review I still use my Velodynes. Active, with DSP continuously variable high pass and low pass, volume adjust, contouring adjustment, and phase angle adjust, as well as remote control, to adjust from my listening position. 2005 15” DSL model. So this is ... | |
| Different amplifier class for different music genres? The way it works is this, and it’s written in stone by the world’s most renowned amplifier designers:Mixed music genres: Class AB (mixed class amp)Single music genre: Class A (it’s pure)Digital sources, syntho-pop, rap/hip-hop, computer generated ... | |
| Money Well spent After reading geleary123’s post the 4th time, I realized he got me!!He made me read his post 4 times!Somewhere in there, is a question about cables. Expensive cables are what you buy when you’ve treated yourself to everything else, so you might as... | |
| Does Steely Dan sound bright to you? My vinyl sources of Steely Dan are perfect. Not bright. Not veiled, either.Digital?? THAT’s your problem. |