viridian
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| Your choice of EL34's Amperex, brown base. | |
| Recycling old designs ??? I believe that referring to the Ohm F as a point source is not correct at all due to the vertical component in the radiation pattern and the necessary nulls both above and, due to the baffle, below the driver.As far as the rest of the question goe... | |
| Wanted ads are back Good job Audiogon and Thanks Kudos to Audigon for restoring a truly valuble part of the site. | |
| Horrific Confession And Puzzling Questions This is truly an audiophile trait. Do you leave concerts after hearing your favorite song? For most audiopiles the system's sound is the thing of value and we constantly song serf to find things that lock in. Discophiles on the other hand - at lea... | |
| Tuner in the 600 range for classical music? I like the Fanfare tuner for classical listening. Quite good. | |
| MOST tubelike solid state amp The Ayre amps are quite tubelike and a good value on the secondary market. Happy shopping. | |
| Yamaha Tuners I still own my Yamaha CT-7000, quite good, but a little out of the price range. For the money I prefer the Sansui analog tuners, TU-717 and TU-515. As an aside you might check out your local Goodwill; for some reason many nice older tuners end up ... | |
| How long the most you have listened to music... When I listen to my favorite music time seems to stand still so I really don't know. I have to shave sometimes after a long listening session if that's any indication. All analog though. | |
| What is the most decadent, most self indulgent-- My third Blue Note first pressing of Cannonball Adderly's "Something Else". Once you hear Miles' trumpet on "Autumn Leaves" all else is gaslight. | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. Not a rock musician, but the great Jazz singer Nina Simone was a classicly trained piano prodegy, however, being African-American she found all of the doors shut for her in classical circles. She became a Jazz singer/pianist and eventually moved t... | |
| Which Amp for uppermost freq' in tri-amped setup? Bedini 25/25. | |
| Determining Bad Tubes 6dj8/6922 are more microphonic than most of the 12 volt tubes due to the closer spacing of grid and plate, but not too worry. Many manufacturers make excellent anti resonance devices for tubes, the most expensive being similar to thick rubber band... | |
| OK to place amp on top of subwoofer? Although powered subs contain power amps those amps are only playing bass frequencies so vibration control is much less an issue regarding sound quality than in an amp playing full range. As to the issue of amps vibrating apart it may be an idicat... | |
| McIntosh MC225 Great amp, I have owned two samples. The one caveat is that the 7591 output tubes are no longer made and good used examples are typically several times the price of the EL34/6CA7 tubes in the Dyna. But hey Moet costs more than Totts too. | |
| What is the best used tube checker out there for There are tons of different models; make sure that the one you consider will test all of the different tube types that you are interested in and that it tests for mutual conductance, not just the filament. For the beginner the US military TV-7 is ... |