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| How to test KT33C with Knight 600 Tube Tester ? Try doing a Google search for the tube tester you have. Narrow the search results by clicking on images. Sometimes people post documents, like owners manuals, in picture format. You may get lucky and find what you are looking for. | |
| Upgrade advice needed Reading through all of this, the only thing I can see for certain is that you really don't know what the problem is. Sure, it can be the cables, amp, preamp, room acoustics, tubes, power, sources or speakers, but unless you have other components l... | |
| Which Pre-Amp Pass Labs or Audio Research "AR has tubes and adds harmonics and bloom but timbre isn't accurate - it has more of a whitish sound, but beautiful just the same."How do you know the timbre isn't accurate on the AR? As far as I know, there's no way to measure timbre. | |
| Where to improve phono chain? You may want to consider getting a speed control. They usually make a big difference. | |
| Unused third channel Why not use the HPA 2 for your main speakers? It would be a much cleaner solution than fooling with a resistor. | |
| Wanting to simplify my system ...... "If "tube magic" is what you're somehow after, without wanting to go with tubes, I'm not so sure bi-polar driven amps is the best solution - generally speaking. I'd probably keep the sonic signature as a main priority, and then consider your groun... | |
| Wanting to simplify my system ...... I would stay with what you have. If you downgrade to simplify, you'll end up wanting your old system back. Its hard to accept lesser SQ than what you are used to. | |
| Advantages of a tube CD player over an SS player? I know you have a hard time where you live an need to make the best choice you can. I may have another option for you. Cary has made some CD players that give you a lot of choices. They have tube CD players that let you select either the tube outp... | |
| Transparent speaker cable for Spectral DMA180 I tried a DMA180 with different cables from AQ, Kimber, Tara and maybe Wireworld. No problems with any of them. I can't see why Transparent wouldn't work. I think Spectral tries to push customers into the sound they think is best. | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? I know this won't be good enough, but I'll try one last time.This is directly out of the manual for my Ayre V-5."Break-In100 to 500 hours of musicplayed through the system willensure full break-in.Due to the manufacturing processes used for thepri... | |
| Modern integrated vs. vintage...what do I get? "That was it as my wife was hungry so we left. I decided that i may need to get better or different speakers too....so i would be interested in hearing more from the Ayre hooked to speaks in the $3-5k range."I have a pair of Wilson's in my 2nd sys... | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? "Changing out parts for different effect has nothing to do with so-called burn in. The same issue would apply."Like I said, don't take my word for it. Call some manufacturers and see what they say. | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? "Ok lets say things do change after "burn in", how does any designer compensate for this, in his calibrations, measurements, tests and design????"They compensate for this by breaking the prototypes in before they listen and measure. For example, a... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? "06-21-14: Dave_72Keep in mind that this is primarily a North American problem. And it's due to a number of factors, most of which have already been addressed here. However, audio (and high end audio) is thriving elsewhere in the world, especially... | |
| nordost or kimber tonearm cable There's no reason why you can't use regular IC's if your TT allows for it. I have 2 VPI's with RCA terminations and have never had any problems. You still have to pick a cable that you like the sound of, but that will always be the case. For me, I... |