marakanetz
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| Upgrading wall outlets Countingbackwards, well put except that the outlet isn't a filter at all! | |
| Monitor amp. Marty...,I have Acoustic Electric guitar that mostly played unpluged. | |
| Need help with the set up on a new Shelter 501 Same problem had with used Benz M .09 cartridge Ended up with trading-in for Lyra Argo. I used allignment protractor boght from turntablebasics.com for both of mentioned. I now suspect your new Shelter having tracking issues that should be discuss... | |
| Tubes - How close to be a 'matched' pair? For small signal tubes it doesn't matter. I've seen rarely that small signal tubes would operate in Push-Pull mode where the lowest bias current limit is important to match. Otherwise mostly, small signal tubes operate at their medium output chara... | |
| any early 80's alt/soft punk fans out there? I wandered again and checked if anybody mentioned Nina Hagen. She's a true Mother of Punk! | |
| Can you lower gain requirements on tube amp? I have SS Sunfire Symphonic reference amp with 1.2V input sensitivity. Virtually there's no way that it will sound right with passive preamplification. When I used to have VTL MB100, they will sound at their best either with unity gain active prea... | |
| Can you lower gain requirements on tube amp? Agree with Rodman, You're obviously underdriving your speakers. Neither UL or triode will do the right trick in your situation. | |
| DACs and reproduced sound I agree that high-end magazines are delusional and unscientific. Nowdays it's very commercial rather than acheiving something scientific. DAC despite processing 1's or 0's is a complexed logical device (especially today's advanced ones).Our todays... | |
| Fuses keep blowing Very possible chain of tube events:Shorted tube --> blown DC capacitor --> blown grid resistor. | |
| Gain of Marantz PM-11S1 MC stage I would use MC in about .4...0.5mV range as specked out in S/N section rather than bellow the input sensitivity. | |
| Transitioning from Tubes back to SS I believe you mostly a rock listening -phile? I had quite a few listening sessions with John Rutan from Audioconnection store in Verona NJ that carries and truly loves his Cary line of equipment. It really has everything: resolution, dynamics, cla... | |
| Best amp for AKG K701 used/new? I finally spotted a good deal on Consonance M20 amp. The only downside that it doesn't have neither extra set of inputs nor bypass output to have it in the chain with mentioned above Alesis recorder. Either I will do the mod myself (done that in t... | |
| I need suggestions and ideas in picking a preamp. Blackzimbo, much higher values than 2...3% | |
| Jolida100a schematic? It's not complicated amp. Map it dude! | |
| More on ss/vs tubes vs hybrids DAC by nature is IC and IC can't be tube. DACs can only have tube output stage which by default dictates DACs being hybride... |