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Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK

Here's a cheap (free) tweak for owners of ARC gear using the black tube dampeners. If you move both dampeners as far up toward the top of the tube as possible without having the top one fall off, taking care that both dampeners are solidly touching each other, you will get better dynamics, bass, mids, highs and a lower noise floor. Try it ... you'll like it.
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hifigeek1
770 posts
 
Those dampers are suppose to be put in that position normally. They do not belong over the plate structure of the tube.
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roxy54
7,753 posts
 
In that case, nevermind...
zd542
5,339 posts
 
"you will get better dynamics, bass, mids, highs and a lower noise floor. Try it ... you'll like it. "

Are you sure that you didn't just get a good shock when you were fooling around with your amp?
terrybbagit
31 posts
 
Something I didn't know, thanks for the info.
gpgr4blu
1,078 posts
 
On the stock tubes from ARC with dampers, they are placed high up on the tube but not fully on the silver upper end of the tube. Are there any gains to be had by moving them up, say, the distance of 1 1/2 damper widths so that they sit beyond the translucent part of the tube as opposed to beyond the plate structure?
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