eldartford
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| Small size tube amps...any recommendations?? Dynaco (or maybe it was in the days of Dyna Kit) made a small integrated amp with output tubes not much larger than 12AX7. I think it was about 15wpc. The unit was in a case that looked much like a Dyna preamp except that it was deeper. Of course ... | |
| Effects of brading interconnect wire You say that the wires are a "tri-wire" configuration? Well then, since all the wires carry the same signal there is no interaction at all. | |
| Carver Power Amps I remember when Carver introduced the Phase Linear 300. "Three Hundred watts! You must be crazy!" is what they said.But Bob Carver's inventiveness is, I think, best exemplified, not by power amps (although his were certainly different) but by his ... | |
| CDs obsolete in 5 years? A memory device with no moving parts has been an objective for many years, and will soon be practical even for very large blocks of data like the digital representation of high bandwidth music. This is separate from the question of how the digital... | |
| Problem with black finish - ML Quest Z speakers Sounds like defective paint to me. This is happening a lot these days as EPA requiremnets force manufacturers to change the type of paint they use. The new Lycoming engine in our airplane had to be removed and sent back to the factory twice becaus... | |
| Are Terminals Necessary? Albertporter...As you imply, wire terminations instead of bare wire connections do make it much more convenient to make all the changes involved with cable evaluations. Therefore, to protect your bank account, I suggest hard soldered connections :) | |
| Wait a Minute Do those Cardas Caps Work sean...My point (FWIW) is that what Tandberg provided for their preamp was a dead short. Perhaps they knew this was OK for their particular circuit. What you say about other circuits being prone to oscillation may be true, although I have not seen... | |
| Wait a Minute Do those Cardas Caps Work sean...FWIW..my Tandberg preamp came with shorting plugs for the MM and the MC inputs (not high R values). However this preamp has completely separate phono stages for the two inputs (all the circuitry is duplicated) so there really is no chance o... | |
| What do I look for in used records? Wdi...You can tell if a record is stereo or mono by the appearance of the grooves. Grab two records that you know are stereo and mono, and see what I mean. | |
| What do I look for in used records? Pmotz...I believe that the first release of a stereo record was a Dukes of Dixieland LP from Audio Fidelity. I don't have that very first issue, but I do have several other Dukes records that they issued in the months following. The audio quality ... | |
| Wait a Minute Do those Cardas Caps Work Are we talking about shorting plugs, or just plain dust caps. Shorting plugs are a good idea, not so much when the input is unused as when you sequence through that input with your selector switch, and may hear bad noises from the open circuit. | |
| Minor phase plate incident with midrange of Hales If you think it might make a difference, and you need to punish yourself for being so clumsy, it will for ever affect your enjoyment of the speaker. I hope the phase plates didn't cost much. | |
| SACD 2 channel vs Redbook 2 Channel The SACD data format is completely different from the PCM redbook format, so that theoretical comparisons are not easy. There is an argument, posted elsewhere, that SACD resolution for signals above 8000 Hz is actually inferior.To my ears, and dep... | |
| Carver Pro ZR1600 lkosova@yahoo.com...Trust the lawyers to screw things up!sean...The circuit, which includes the OP Amp is linear, even if the open loop performance of the device is "junky". An analogy might be the output transformer of a tube amp, where, when tes... | |
| Subwoofer Amp Recommendations Ritteri...I guess I must be lucky to have no noise problems or QC defects. (Many, many excellent products are no longer made. There is another thread about this).I don't think that you can explain the need for high slew rate when processing a sign... |