mcintech
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| Small Preamplifier choices? I know: way over budget; even used. I re-read the original thread.My bad. | |
| Small Preamplifier choices? Pre-owned Nagra PL-L tube preamp (if you cannot buy new), it's incredible sound, tiny, and with inputs and outputs including power connector on the sides; only 10 inches deep.Same size unit with a phono stage is the PL-P but you lose the remote ca... | |
| Analog tube amp/pre-amp for home theater use? I use my HH Scott 222D in my video rig (2.1 only using DVD, no surround) and am amazed at how much of the movie's soundtrack fills the room. In ZERO hurry to go 5.1 and sacrifice the musicality for back fill. | |
| is a step up/down electric transformer bad ? Should not cause a huge amount of difference as long as it's providing 100VAC; your home AC is going through a transformer outside.I use a Japanese native (100V 50Hz) Sony TA4650 VFET amp all day on 115V 60Hz and never once had a problem (I replac... | |
| NAD 352C - converting from 220v to 100v According to the service manual they are two different parts, so you are stuck with sourcing from their Parent company at their parts center 1.800.263.464118-35151-20 Transformer C Version 18-35151-10 Transformer AH VersionTake care,Steve | |
| Wadia Dock failed after iPod touch to V4.1 My iPhone 3G was perfect until I updated it to 4.x. Pandora and LastFM both crash all the time and I just hate the fact that once updated there is no reverting back to a lower OS!The phone itself also seems sluggish after the update, whereas befor... | |
| Old Classic Receivers: A Mistake to Buy? I'd put my McIntosh MAC1900 receiver up against just about any amp-pre separates in the 55W-75WPC range. Tuner/preamp/power amp sections extremely well designed and I feel it's the smoothest and most musical sounding of the SS McIntosh receivers a... | |
| Tandberg 3012 - Hot fins I would venture to say that if this is a dual mono amp, (having 4 transistors and an identical heat sink on the other side), and if the other channel's heatsink is not the same temperature, that you have a bias issue or a component failure somewhe... | |
| USB Cards to Replace Compact Discs? Not in my system; every USB card I have tried won't allow the CD tray to close...so none I've seen will be replacing my CD's. | |
| Unhappy with tubes so which transistor amp? Since you are in Switzerland, give the new Nagra MSA a listen, absolutely incredible. It's 60WPC, and bridgeable into monoblocks for 120WPC.Disclosure: I am Nagra's US Service Manager. | |
| Raising the Bias Old, weak tubes will not harm the amp. If anything you'll save a bit in electricity usage!Enjoy.My 1964 HH Scott 222D integrated still has its original output tubes, and with careful bias matching, I get the sweetest, most accurate sound (albeit a... | |
| Raising the Bias Good bet it's just the tubes. If you can obtain a known good pair and test them, you will know the answer by the readings.If these weak 300B's sound good, simply bias them the same current reading and enjoy. | |
| Best battery type for Nagra PL-P Hello, As Nagra's Service Manager and product specialist for the US, wish to point out something: the PL-P is designed to stay plugged into the PLP-CCC3 power supply at all times during which the batteries will always be charging during use. It wa... | |
| Schematics Distribution of schematics is 100% up to the company, as a previous poster quoted: they are that company's Intellectual Property. In this day and age of offshore manufacturing and all the copying and cloning going on, I would suspect that acquirin... | |
| McIntosh MC2002 And MA6100,C30 0r C32 Hi,I service McIntosh in a huge Mac town; Nashville, and have had several of the units you mention either owned by myself or serviced on my bench.The MA6100 (and its MAC1900 receiver sibling) is one of the better platforms to work with as it is 10... |