elizabeth
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| Tube question for the electrical engineers SOme different resistors or caps going to the heaters is my guess what you need.The voltages in you MAC are out of control when any sort of surge.Some preamps eat tubes. Most d onot.IMO usually unless a design flaw, eating tubes is a (as I mention... | |
| Classe move to China Yeah, for Americans.. Or Canada.I try to buy stuff made in USA.Considering the actual trade war we are in with China (guess who has won the first five rounds? CHINA)We are still able to change the outcome, but only if each individual who cares doe... | |
| six year old 6sn7's, pushing my luck? Agree preamp tubes (almost) always go out with a wimper.So yu can use them until they actually start to fail.Some designs are easy on tubes, some really hard.Seems your preamp is just kind to tubes. So I would not worry and just keep using them un... | |
| Building a System around Magnepan Speakers... The amp basically needs to play well into a 4 ohm load.If it does that, then it will be good.With small Maggies.. 100 to 200 watts per channel at 4 ohms is fineThe strength of Magnepan is in chamber Classical, small group Jazz, acoustic Rock.If yo... | |
| Can car amps be used for home audio? The biggest issue is the power supply.You are going to have ripple in the DC unless you spend a small fortune.Then, as mentioned, distortion in car amps is generally a lot higher.IF you have a car amp laying around, and just want to try it. Then a... | |
| Not considerin3D,isn't AV market rather stagnant? The AV bubble has finally burst.All those folks who had to get a flatscreen have done so.The huge market demand was filled. So now there are all sorts of TVs with no place to go.There will be cries of horror as a few companies go out of business.(... | |
| Magnepan 3.6, 3.7 or Tannoy Westminister SE I am a happy 3.6 owner. i would save up for some 20.7 Magnepan in my future, but not anything else.I am pretty happy with what I have.I had Infinity RSIIa dipoles for 18 years..Then I had (for a short time) some used Maggie IIb. Then I bought some... | |
| Phono Preamp vs Preamp for a Turntable Pre CD preamps usually had a phono stage built in. Post CD they pretty much died off.Any post CD receiver with phono is only going to have a cheap one chip phono stage.So if you don't buy an old quality receiver, get the phono stage.It will be bet... | |
| Which Cables Are of Most Importance? In the big picture, the umbilical cable is the maost important to a mammal. Whithout it you just do not even get the chance to exist.So THAT cord is clearly the most important!Feel free to stone me..(8^Q... | |
| Classe CAP 2100 for Maggie 3.6? Agree the Classe will do a fine job with the Maggies.I have 3.6 and use a Bryston 4B-SST2.I wanted to audition a Classe like yours, but was not able too. (The Bryston was pretty good anyway..)Go for it! | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl I have to say the small amount of surface noise is not a problem at all, when listening to Lps. FOR ME.Maybe for others they just find it to be another reason to not do vinyl. | |
| What a better pre-amp Arc Ls-27 or Ref-3 So far from reading stuff.. Folks are saying the LS27 is 'better' than the Ref3 | |
| power cable length importance Skip the trash talk. I personally think 2 meters is ideal.One point is 2 meters will cover reusing the powercord nearly forever.Nothing worse than a cord of any type which is a few inches too short when you swap your stuff around in a few years...... | |
| How to allocate my cable dollars. The 'common sense' approach is to spend about 10% of you system cost on total cost of all cables.Agree speaker cables can wait.Pangea AC-9 for amps (if they have IEC connectors)Shunyata Venom for others.a variety of low price but good quality cabl... | |
| Bare wire to B&W 684? Reread op post, and do not 'flay' or spread out the ends of the wire after it goes through the terminal hole.Just leave it tightly twisted, with only maybe a quarter to a third of an inch past hole.ou do want the outer screw-down to press on both ... |