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| Marsh P2000T hybrid preamp....Should I modify?? I have ordered a pair of mono 100K series attenuators from Gold Point. I will report on the effect of these instead of the Marsh's balance and volume dual Alps pots. | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem It sounds like an old argument over here that I had inadvertantly re-started. Sorry.==I certainly wouldn't judge any amplifier based on the sonics of Magnepan 1.6.==That makes sense, as you probably don't own these speakers. I do and that's the on... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem I would respectfully disagree. The hurricane's sound is anything but dry and sterile. It has replaced a single ended amp in my system and delivers a very palpable, warm and liquid sound through Magnepans 1.6s. It has a tremendous presence and a sp... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem ==You might consider having someone add those to your amps.==Sounds like a good idea. Since I am spending considerable amount of time inside the amps, I can probably add them myself soon.I have found that I had a blown resistor in another socket, ... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem ==In that case you have a flawed design. Burned out resistors==Probably. I don't know if it is unusual for high power tube amplifiers to use sacrificial resistors to protect itself against failed tubes, but I certanily never had it happened in oth... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem Well, it was the burnt-out 10 ohm resistor. Clearly a regular occurance in the life of this amp as other sockets had these resistors changed as well. The amps are running fine now...I think. One more question for the fellow sufferers - what bias d... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem What kind of failures are common ? My apparently had a blown resistor and tube. That's not too problematic. Serious failures requireing trips to the dealer are. How do people who own them cope with them ? | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem ==That's a great question. The older units fail after 3 months and the new units fail after 6.==Ha-ha-ha !!! But seriously, folks, I am about to drop 2.5K on these monsters. Should I do it ? Is there something else there that sounds like it ? Larg... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem Apparently, the preferred version has eight .22uf white circular multicap capacitors and the other version has rectangular gray boxy caps labeled "illusion". "My" amp is a mongrel, which started its life with the "illusion" caps and the previous o... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane Problem Thanks. I am taking the amp back to the hifi shop where it was on consignment to hopefully fix the blown resistors, if that's all it is. The other amp is fine, and I am falling in love with the sound. This pair has caps modified to Multicaps with ... | |
| Marsh P2000T hybrid preamp....Should I modify?? I have done simple modifications on this preamp myself. First, change stock feet to "superspike" type or equivalent. Take a 1" by 0.25" aluminum bar and bond it with marine epoxy to the underside of the top cover in the long direction. Then buy a ... | |
| Review: Quicksilver 8417 Tube amp You can easily change the bias potentiometer range so you can use any of the standard tubes - 6550s, KT88s, EL34. The amp works very well with 6550s - the specs on this tube are very similar to 8417, except for gain sensitivity - the input stage h... |