eldartford
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| Dynaco owners please comment The Dynakit stereo 120 was the first solid state amp that I owned, replacing a 40wpc Eico tube job.The ST120 circuit was very different from just about every other transistorized amplifier (including later Dynaco units) in that it did not have a c... | |
| older LPs - different EQ? The first separate preamp that I had was a Heathkit, and it had several different equalizations. To tell the truth, the different curves were not all that much different, and judicious use of tone controls or better still, an equalizer, will solve... | |
| Who will survive? One last table til I die. sean...regarding deterioration of phono cartridges over time, I think it is the elastomer (rubber) in the stylus mounting that hardens over time, and if left unused (unflexed) for a time. I can't think of anything in the cartridge body that would ... | |
| Anti-skating problem Try a different cartridge...borrow one if you can. It sounds as if antiskating has no effect (too much or too little) so the conclusion must be that antiskating is not the problem. | |
| Question about seperate tuners Just about all tuners today have audio quality that is as good as the signal which stations transmit. The important specs and the costs relate to sensitivity and selectivity, and these matter greatly if you live in a "fringe" (weak signal) area, o... | |
| Magnepan ribbons problems When I was considering purchase of Magnepans recently I was concerned about the ribbon reliability. I was told that Magnepan does not deny that these units can and do fail, but they provide repair service at very reasonable cost. In the end I boug... | |
| Copies Better Than Originals? In the digital world this can be true. Once the input media reader decides on the sequence of "ones" and "zeros" it writes the same series to the output media (the copy). The ones and zeros of the original actually are two "states" (in a CD this w... | |
| Old Dynaco Speakers? With reference to another thread..."High End" is not eqivalent to "High Price".Also, the type of music is a major factor. As I have said a few times, really lousy horn driver speakers sound really good when you play dixieland jazz. I have some lit... | |
| Electrical Question A 75 foot blue spruce tree 50 feet from my house was struck The tree exploded!Electricity came under the ground, throwing 100 pound stones of a wall 50 feet, and broke the corner of the house foundation. Every fuse in the house was blown, but not ... | |
| how to eliminate air-born RF RF is not "air born" and you can't hear RF (even if you are a bat).Find out where the noise is originating by using a cardboard tube (like the kind paper towels are wound on). Listen through the tube, and move it around until you find the source. ... | |
| SACD or DVD Audio, which one is winning the race? The stereo program on SACDs is an AREA of the disc, not a layer. The layer idea (Hybrid SACD only) relates to a media that can be read by regular CD players.At present a DVD-A disc does not have a stereo program although (1) the player can do a re... | |
| Is vinyl dead ? Tube equipment is still around, in fact prehistoric single-ended amplifiers are a fad. Similarly, there are probably 80rpm records being spun somewhere, and perhaps even wax cylinders.There will always be an interest in historic recordings, even i... | |
| Decca London Cartridge? It may interest you that the very earliest Decca stereo pickups (long before 1973) had Horizontal and Vertical groove modulation outputs (Left + Right and Left - Right), and required a mixing network to come up with the Left and Right signals of t... | |
| What makes different amps produce different sound? Bomarc...I really don't know where I learned what I posted: it was long long ago, and I know I have seen it many times. See also the comment by ralph@ above.Sometimes there is confusion about numbering of harmonics. If you do a Fourier analysis of... | |
| What makes different amps produce different sound? Tube amplifiers characteristically produce second harmonic distortion whereas transistors like to produce the third harmonic. Musical instruments typically make second harmonic sounds, so the tube amplifier distortion, even if rather high, is ofte... |