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| How Good Is A Marble Slab at Deadening Vibration I use gray foam pipe wrap that I cut into 2 inch lengths.4 under each amp on the floor between the speakers and about 4 ft. away from the subwoofer.It was meant to be a temporary solution until I built something more substantial.They turned out to... | |
| References available on real life room "tuning"? If you find you have need to absorb or diffuse on the walls you can wrap foam or diffusing panels in attractive fabric.Carpet tiles may work too,check out "Flor's" website. | |
| Speaker Cables With SET Amps Tube amps seem to like smaller gage wire.ClearDay is one to add to your list. | |
| Reviewing the Reviewers - and the decline of HiFi Rja,I have read those reviews also!Mechans, I think you are correct.The majority seem to be dazzled by whatever is newer,smaller,and loaded with the latest features.I think reviewers are journalists first,entertainment more than enlightenment. | |
| Cardas Clear Sky Speaker Cables For what it's worth,tube amps generally work best with smaller gage speaker cables.Other than that whatever sounds good to you is perfect. | |
| Reading Spec Sheets You guys are right,I way oversimplified!Was refering to class A/B amps.Class D and tube amps certainly are different animals.My experience has been that if a class A/B amp can't nearly double it's power it has no dynamics to speak of.They don't ne... | |
| Which amp with Golden Ear Triton 2's? Congratulations!I vote for genius.Sorry,no experience with those components,though they are all highly reviewed.My system is all tubes and I have no regrets.BTW there are some excellent reissue tubes to be found. | |
| Reading Spec Sheets An amp will sound more powerful if it can double it's output into a 4ohm load or triple into a 2 ohm load.For instance the spec. sheet may read:40 watts into 8 ohms,80 watts into 4ohms,120 watts into 2 ohms.Many spec. sheets don't include that inf... | |
| Porter Ports or Cabledyne Cryo Hubbell 5362 I have tried PS Audio,Oyaide,and settled on Porter Ports.The other brands have a "house sound",the Porters are neutral IMO. | |
| arc vt150se Have you tried switching the tubes yet[one set at a time]?Could simply be a bad tube or dirty tube socket.You can clean the sockets with Deoxit and a pipe cleaner,be sure to unplug them the night before so they can discharge.Also you can try wiggl... | |
| Power Strip Porter Ports sold here on AG are very good outlets.I've tried PS Audio and Oyaide each which had a distinct house sound.The Porters are neutral and clean IMO.No experience with the power strips,I'm sure others will have suggestions.Best of luck in... | |
| Mix RCA With Balanced ?? Balanced cables are useful if you are having noise and hum problems.Other than that,it shouldn't make any difference. | |
| Radiotechnique 12AU7/ECC82/6189 Sonics Tubes with long plates tend to be more microphonic which can be good or bad depending on personal taste.Sometimes you can "tune" them just right with O rings or Herbie's tube dampers.If you are interested in reissue tubes at all,JAN Phillips 12au7... | |
| Best Power Cable for less than $100 Venom or Pangea are both very good. | |
| We Have Arrived Got a Crate and Barrel catalog a few days ago that featured a nicely decorated room with a turntable on the shelving unit.But no stereo equipment or speakers.Maybe in the next catalog? |