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Dec 31, 2006	Einstein The Tube users...help Tbooze, FWIW I have read about Pass amps and pre-amps. As a prior owner of one of his Threshold SA amps, one of the finest SS amps I've heard and owned BTW. Several folks thought that Pass amps and Pre-amps sounded best in combo. It may just be th...
Dec 31, 2006	Cayin A88T break in and biasing?? BTW, My comments were based upon owners reading of the manufacturer's actual manual on your amp, not on the statements by dealers that they were auto-biasing. To clear up any conflict between two opposing posts I would suggest you obtain and read ...
Dec 31, 2006	Einstein The Tube users...help FWIW, the problem you are describing is not unusual for many tube pre-amps. They are only part of the problem. The real problem is the input sensitivity on your amp is too high. What is really nice is to have an pre-amp, like several of the ARC un...
Dec 31, 2006	Cayin A88T break in and biasing?? Yep, your friends are right. You need to be able to handle biasing and, for me anyway, not being able to do it with the amp in place and connected to everything would be a PITA. Personally I prefer manual biasing amps which come with exposed bias ...
Dec 31, 2006	Buzz/hum caused by new a electric lines My personal experience. For a short time I ran all of my source equipment from dedicated lines with the amps on a seperate line thru an 'amp' filter. Unresolvable hum! I ran a line from the filter back to the dedicated line and the hum went away. ...
Dec 31, 2006	Wood or metal racks-Which do you prefer and why? What you use to the best advantage probably depends as much on your belief system as anything. There are theories about which might be more attractive to you which will take you in a different direction.My personal concerns considering components ...
Dec 31, 2006	Tube rings for power tubes? FWIW, I'm with Nsgarch's posts re his actual experiences and the requirements of power tubes, although I've never used Herbies and my power tubes were all common pentodes. No microphonic problems to solve in the first place.
Dec 30, 2006	Speaker placement.. As I interpert what you are saying when you mention integrating bass and that the sound is flat unless you're right on the back wall is that you are complaining about (a lack of) the fullness of the bass, a sense of warmness. Might that be correct...
Dec 20, 2006	Anybody still using soft rubber isolation devices? Far as I'm concerned the principal use for sorbothane type isolation product (or any other soft materiels, depending of the frequencies you need to damp) is the need for your component to be isolated by frequencies thru the floors or component sup...
Dec 20, 2006	New Tubes- Need Burn-In? Change the small tubes from the right channel to the left channel and vis a versa. If the popping changes channels you've sourced your problem and potential solution. IME your complaint is typical of small tube deterioration. If that doesn't work ...
Dec 20, 2006	Review: Raysonic 128 CDP CD Player Hi Groberts3 Wish I had an easy answer to your question - so much on your end results depends on the rest of your system that its hard to predict how any one piece of equipment will actually interface with your other components.FWIW I just listene...
Dec 05, 2006	Any opinions on retubeing W/winged c or mullard re Bob, I tend to agree with your comments regarding the sonic's of the SED's and the Tesla's, both the JJ's and the pre-JJ's. The E34L also has a bit more energy and requires a bit more bias. I find the E34L's to be very sparkly (maybe a bit more th...
Dec 04, 2006	Any opinions on retubeing W/winged c or mullard re Do a search in the Tube Forum in Audio Asylum - you will find a lot of comments about the Mullard re-issues, the SED's, and some comparisions of the two.
Dec 04, 2006	KT88 recom. for quicksilver mini mono's Marco, Mesa Baron Tri Tube mod was 6L6, EL 34, and ?. I was under the impression that it limited to KT types, not 6550's. I thought the tri tube mod in the Mesa Baron was 6l6's, EL34's and KT88's. I was not aware that it would also take 6550's. I ...
Dec 04, 2006	KT88 recom. for quicksilver mini mono's Tvad, FWIW, in three different amps, each of the 6550's and KT88's (both SED's) had the same sonic signature, albeit the overall sonic preference was different because of the design of the amps (Cary, Sonic Frontiers, & Primaluna). The KT88's ...