elizabeth
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| help me to understand the gain Just an idea. Get a really low output phono cartridge, (and turntable etc. And a Moving magnet only phono box. With the really nearly unacceptably low output, it will balance out your too much gain in the rest of the system. Just have to get Lps t... | |
| help me to understand the gain Sorry to ssay:You are screwed. I have somewhat the same problem. Too much gain.And my speakers are only 84dB.With the Zu, your going to be in gain Hell. Either you need some major attenuation. Or ??You might be able to get a custom attenuator for ... | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW Well, then they wouldn't be tweaks, would they?At one point not too long ago the idea of raising speaker cables off the floor was ridiculed (Enid Lumly at TAS)Now $100 lifters are commonplace in the market.Perhaps give it a few years, and your amp... | |
| Your best ''outstanding'' products in last 5 yrs? Well, In the past year I bought:magnepan 3.6 speakers newBryston 4B-SST2 amplifier newBryston BP-26 preamp newBryston BP 1.5 phonoRega P5 turntable with PS, and Benz Glider cart newUsed Kuzma Stogi S turntable with new dynavector 17D3 cart.Sennhie... | |
| when do you replace capacitors? Variac is the porper way to restore a cap. If your electronics item is worth a lot of money, and you have the money to spend getting it variac'ed. Do it. Otherwise the turn on style will do "in a pinch" or if you are just too cheap to get it done ... | |
| when do you replace capacitors? As for a long time use/non use, I would say the time is time. used or not, for caps. Capacitors actually LIKE to beused some. Not too hot, not too seldom.So the twenty years is used a lot or not much.Some discussion is given to theory about high t... | |
| when do you replace capacitors? Do ALL the caps at one time when you decide to have them done.Twenty years is a safe period.It might not be neccessary to have all of them done then, but better that, if you really like the amp, then have one blow up on you suddenly.I you want to ... | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW Isochronism: thanks! I am glad you took the comment in the sprit it was made. | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW Yeah, worrying about a failure when it costs three cents worth of wire?I'd worry about the new $12,000 preamp that turned out to be no better than the one you just sold.Or those $4,000 interconnects that never seem to get broken in...My advice: do... | |
| how do you pick your next music? Blindjim: yeah, it was tough when i had a huge classical collection. I had to move, and cut my enttire collection by 50%. Turned out over 4,000 of the 6,000Lp culled were classical albums.I didn't lose a single work, just variations of performance... | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW Just as a guess i would say if one person in five notes any improvement, and one in ten has a lot of improvemnet, then this tweak is a success.A lot of this stuff is very system dependent. | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW Agree with Ahendler, Doing a tweak and not checking to see if it did anything.. not good.Sorry it did not work for you.I had mentioned i tried the pigtail tweak awhile back, and had no results too.I have been doing a lot of tweaking lately though,... | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW To Shadorne: agree best not to loop wire around ferrite. I have only one loop through the hole of the ferrite, and that is just to make a strong physical contact.And i leave a fairly long 'tail' (8 inches) on the pigtail to keep the ferrite away f... | |
| Add small pigtail wire off negative out of amp.WOW The additional ferrite was just a 'it popped into my head'.I was reading about tweaks over at Audio Asylum, and the big thing was quartz Crystals. Other folks had complicated 'treatments' to make them work better. i saw the treatments basically we... | |
| JPS Superconductor Q VS Kimber 8TC I look for clarity, above all else. I like the bass to be tight, and not wooly in any way. Top end to be spectacularly open and smooth.I use Kimber 8TC, and Hero for 7 meter pre to amp and KCAG interconnects in the source to pre.I have not used th... |