rodman99999
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| What is the affect of cd player? There is no "most important" in an audio chain. Think of yourself as looking at a garden(your recording of musicians in the original venue), through a number of glass panes(source to ears/your electronics and room). Does it matter which panes of g... | |
| 12AX7A and AT7 tubes No small signal tube, that is currently manufactured(outside of EAT Cool Valves) can provide the sound stage/timbre/overall music reproduction of a strong, quality(ie: Mullard/Brimar/Amperex/Telefunken/Siemens)NOS valve(pre 70's). If you enjoy the... | |
| To turn off or not to turn off "SS equipment idles at very low power and need not to be turned off unless there's threats from power surges." UNLESS that SS gear happens to run in Class A. | |
| New caps for preamp? A lot depends on the make of your pre-amp. If it happened to be an ARC for instance; the unit would already have excellent MIT caps in the signal path. But- If you were to replace the power supply's electrolytic caps with Black Gates(there are sti... | |
| Putting vintage tubes in the power supply of pre Just a suggestion: try a NOS Mullard 5AR4/GZ34 from the Blackburn plant, in the rectifier slot first, and listen for improvements. Then find a NOS TungSol 6SL7GT/VT229 Round Plate(from the 40's). There are a lot of good NOS 6V6 power tubes that wi... | |
| Can we objectively rate speaker cables? What Dave b said (X2)! | |
| Putting vintage tubes in the power supply of pre Some of the greatest sonic benefits in this hobby are achieved via power supply mods. ie: (http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1238465914&read&keyw&zzmullard+5ar4) That refers to the improvements in a power amp, in which ... | |
| Bad preamp choice? Yes- The CJ will be an upgrade from the Yamaha, and should you not immediately appreciate it's sound: you'll have the option of rolling it's tubes to better suit your tastes(especially if you listen to vinyl). The PV-10B had a few cap bypasses in ... | |
| Disconnect the woofer Are you the first owner of those Maggies? Perhaps someone modded the X-overs? If they are original, and you get no output, correctly hooked up/jumpers removed; something's amiss. | |
| SE 845 Triode versus KT88 Triode-Connected? Any tube amp's sound depends on a plethora of factors like transformer quality, capacitor construction(polypropylene/polystyrene/Teflon/tin, aluminum or silver foil/ paper in oil/etc), resistors used, power supply topography and quality, point to ... | |
| What is a typical life span of a stylus or cartrid Welcome back to analog and enjoy your vinyl collection! =8^) | |
| Jadis with Telefunken 12AX7/ECC83 tubes Mr M- Since you've brought up one of my favs(the Sylvania 6SN7W); I have to mention the three(really two) iterations of that tube, the shorter one of which I couldn't get out of my amps fast enough(no impact or depth, thin and strident). The tall ... | |
| Disconnect the woofer The 20.1 X-over's Hi-Pass section has 120.3uF of capacitance after the jumpers and before the signal is further split into MF/HF. If he's not removing the LF via an active x-over b4 the main amp, he's basically "passively bi-amping". Not the clean... | |
| Disconnect the woofer The 20.1 crossover is jumpered, and as long as you are removing the LF signal from the input, via an active x-over(with jumpers removed); you shouldn't have any issues. I'm, using a modded TacT 2.2X to actively bi-amp my Maggies, with tubes above ... | |
| New Production EL34 / 6CA7 Another vote for the =C=(SED St Petersberg plant) that Upscale Audio carrys (http://www.upscaleaudio.com/SED-Winged-C-EL-34_p_63.html). They sounded so nice in my old ST-70(tastefully modded), that when I could no longer find/afford NOS, matched o... |