redkiwi
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| Hum and Hiss with Tube pre-amp I presume you have tried disconnecting the FM input? Trying another cable or two might even be worth it. An item you might check (or leave to a qualified person) is whether signal earth is connected to chassis or electrical earth or not on each of... | |
| Castle Inversion 15's There is a review in the latest Inner Ear magazine - which tends to disagree with the impressions I related in my previous post. It might help. | |
| Creek 4240SE has buzzing sound. The buzzing will be the transformer and the common reason in this case is that the transformer was probably designed for UK power supply, but with a 120V primary tap for selling in the US. Very few manufacturers use a different transformer for the... | |
| AC WIRE HELP!!!!!!!!!!! From my experience (based on 240V AC), using the usual crappy TPC is fine as a feeder (and the only thing legal in the wall in this country), but use a guage you would use for a stove (here it would be 30A, in the US I guess it is 60A). Then use a... | |
| Tubes? Transistors? Which are better? I do use room treatments Carl, but one of my rooms (I run two systems) is problemmatic and hard to deal with (the main problems being squareness 24'*26', and hard floor). But with the narrow vertical dispersion of Martin-Logans I get very good res... | |
| Castle Inversion 15's I was a bit unsure whether to respond. The only time I heard these was at a dealers - and they sounded brash and forward to me. While an experience at a dealers is probably not worth recounting, the interesting thing was that the dealer only demo'... | |
| Tubes? Transistors? Which are better? Theory is a wonderful thing. Even a necessary thing if you are a designer. But theory is only useful if it reliably explains/predicts reality. I used to think the theory of tube pre and SS power seemed to make sense. But I tried just about every S... | |
| comments on Naim Audio I have a lot of experience with Naim gear. Two key points to consider. One - there are few cross-over points between the Naim philosophy/gear and the rest of the audio world. What this means is that while some Naim gear can perform very well toget... | |
| speaker cables?straightwire maestro vs. Clearsound, I have tried Straightwire Maestro Speaker cables with Martin Logans and Thiels, and with both SS and tube amps. In both cases I was able to compare them with a number of other cables including Straightwire Virtuoso and Kimber 8TC (but ... | |
| Biwire or Jumpers: which is better? In your case Carl - a raspberry! | |
| Do I really need separates? Can I swap my tube separates for your wife? No offence intended but I am jealous. You would certainly get an improvement over the Anthem with BAT or Sonic Frontier separates, but these days (assuming you do not use vinyl) a US$5,000 tube integrate... | |
| Speaker Cable upgrade Thanks Gerrym5. I am a slow learner, but recognise good advice when I see it. | |
| Speaker Cable upgrade Thanks Yuri. But I was really just feeling mischievous that day and was trying to wind Carl up. I was somewhat disappointed when he did not reply, but sure enough he came through in the end. As usual he substituted invective (now I am an ignoramus... | |
| Biwire or Jumpers: which is better? The answer depends on the speakers. If the cross-over design is near optimal then there is no significant benefit from bi-wiring. But for many speakers, either the speaker drivers themselves, or the execution of the cross-over, provide quite diffe... | |
| Fine tuning: advice? There are three elements about your system that you have not mentioned. One of course is the room, and you could look to treat it. The second is power cables - yes, they can make a big difference and whether they can make a bigger difference than ... |