fisher_400
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| Whole House Mains Wiring -- Ping: Jea48 (Jim) -- & ALL Others for your HELP! One dedicated 20 amp @ 120 volt circuit is all you need for your sound system. In fact it would likely sound better under certain circumstances vs multiple circuits. For fun, you can ask the electrician to use 30 amp #10-3 wire vs the standard 20 ... | |
| JAN / Phillips 5814A / 12AU7 Tube Also Brimar 13D5. Very good sonics. | |
| Integrateds: Why do they all SUCK? Problem with most amps are the internal components and cheap tubes. I can take a vintage amp and change out the coupling capacitors & use select tubes. The result is breathtaking. The amp before modifications sounds ordinary at best. | |
| Let's talk power cords I use tube amplifiers and did not hear any difference in power cords. The power cord is far away electrically from the DC power supply. In fact the power cord is not directly connected due to the power transformer is magnetically coupled. An elect... | |
| JAN / Phillips 5814A / 12AU7 Tube CBS or CBS/Hytron 5814 or 12AU7 are best per my ears. | |
| Capacitor rolling. Russian K40Y-9 are musical, a little on the warm side & frankly outperformed Mundorf per my ears. | |
| Good Sounding Vintage SS Receiver or Amps I guess even Lloyds was making good money back then. | |
| Ever Bought an Audio Product that was Stupid Good for the Money? A Garrard 401 turntable. No jitter in the slightest and as musical a turntable I ever heard. It is a fluke. | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? 'Disagreement and argument accomplishes nothing?' Audio sonics is very subjective. What sounds great for one many not for another. So, read the suggestions and experiment. | |
| 20 Year Old Amplifiers compared to 2017 The newer Class D amps are superior to most vintage amps & receivers. Regarding vintage solid-state amps & receivers, the 1960s and many 1970s used all discrete components. The receivers & amplifiers around 1975 and later started using... | |
| Looking for not too expensive Turntable Budget is $250 for this secondary system. My main system has a $1500 Garrard 401 in custom plinth with 12" tone arm. | |
| DIY tube amps Get a Scott LK-150. Upgrade the coupling capacitors & rebuild the power supplies. Great sound, power no problem. | |
| Coupling caps Although late to reply on this older post. Frankly, I never heard better capacitors than the Russian K40Y-9. It is the most musical capacitor I ever heard. Needs 50 hours to start sounding right & first 10 hours is not so good at all. | |
| Tube match problems You could measure the operating temperature of the tubes. Just install tubes with the closest temperatures in pairs. I know this sounds crazy, but I got matches that sounded better this way from a lot of 24 NOS tubes. Hand held thermometers with d... | |
| Sansui 9900z in my sights....... I heard a Sansui G-9090 and owned a G-6000. But just about any reasonable design tube amp will outperform it. But, I am listening to a Yamaha CR-220 right now! So.......... |