pubul57
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| Replacing tubes on used equipment bought on A'gon Depends on type of tube. Tubes degrade gradually with use, but will "work" considerably longer than their ideal useage time. So you could have a tube working 5-10 years that musically degraded after 2-3 years. The only way to know is to try new tu... | |
| Vandersteen 3x Owners: More Bass? Zargon, thanks for the input. The 5A path seems right. One thing I like about Vandesteen is he has a design philosphy that he can articulate (on speaker boxes, on subwoofer integration, on multiple drivers covering the same frequency. on time and ... | |
| Vandersteen 3x Owners: More Bass? The room is 30' Long x 14' Wide. The walls are irregular shaped solid stone. The floor is carpeted concrete. THe ceiling is exposed wood beams (about 9'). The speakers are 10' from back wall, 3 1.2" from side walls, and 9 feet from listening posit... | |
| Do tube dampers really work? There seems to be some agreement that tube dampers offer an improvement. Why would a manufacturer of a relatively expensive preamp (over 4K) not offer a tube damper as part of the standard equipment to "improve" performance, or at least offer them... | |
| Vandersteen 3x Owners: More Bass? I have no interest in HT, only 2-channel acoustic music (jazz, folk, classical). I own the Vandersteen 3A Sigs with VPI TT, ARC CD3, CAT SL1 Ultimate, and Pass Aleph 2 Monoblocks. I was curious as to whether the (2)2Wq would improve the overall so... |