almarg
Responses from almarg
| 2019 300B tubes that are worth the money? Hi Gary,Your guess is as good as mine on that question. But FWIW, if there is a compelling reason to clip the pin, such as to make it possible to insert the tube into a socket that is recessed beneath a panel, I suppose it would probably work out ... | |
| Thinking of trying Beldon Iconoclast speaker cables. Any on hear own or auditioned? I have no experience with these cables, but FWIW the electrical parameters of the speaker cables and interconnects look appealing. In the case of the speaker cables it's nice to see low inductance achieved without the side effect of high capacita... | |
| 2019 300B tubes that are worth the money? Gary, I believe the purpose of the pin that was on the side of the base of the original WE 300B was to facilitate proper orientation when inserting it into sockets such as this one. (Note the notch at the lower left of the cylinder). And also to s... | |
| splitting a digital signal Various coaxial SPDIF splitters employing active (powered) circuitry are available, but I have no idea as to the quality of the signal waveforms they would provide to the two destinations, and consequently the effects they may have on timing jitte... | |
| Music lover or audiophile? Elizabeth and Prof, thank you kindly for the very nice words, however accurate or inaccurate they may be :-) Regarding the subject matter of the thread, the bottom line as I see it is simply the truism that as with many things in life different pe... | |
| Solid state AB amp? The following excellent article by Nelson Pass may be of interest: https://www.passlabs.com/press/leaving-class Regards,-- Al | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... My perception over the years is that many members here have achieved good results with horizontal passive biamp configurations. I recognize that in general a vertical passive biamp configuration, using identical amps, is likely to be preferable fr... | |
| From tubes back to SS? Last year I changed my power amp from a 300B-based VAC Renaissance 70/70 MkIII I had been using for several years to a Pass XA25, and I have no regrets at all.While they sound somewhat different, of course, the Pass comes remarkably close to the V... | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... Looking at some rear panel photos of the Hsu ULS-15 it appears that it may have a two-prong IEC receptacle for its power cord. If so I don’t see any issues regarding the presence of the subs in the system. However if they have a three-prong recept... | |
| Which 300b amplifier for Devore O/96 Ralph, thanks for the extremely informative post. I hadn't previously realized how much the sonic characteristics that are commonly attributed to the various directly heated triodes, in SET applications, are the result of the requirements each tu... | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... And because there’s no way both amps will be equal in gain, you’ll have to put a passive volume control at the input of the loudest amp so you can lower it’s volume to be identical to the other amp. Hi George,See item 1 in my post earlier in the ... | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... @Haywood310 After looking at the descriptions, specs, and/or manuals for the equipment you’ve listed, if (a)you are satisfied with the sound you are presently getting with the configuration you have described, and (b)assuming the specs on the equi... | |
| Laptop through Audioquest Dragonfly Red...what input to preamp. The Dragonfly Red is stated to provide a maximum output level of 2.1 volts, and it has a low enough output impedance to drive headphones. So it shouldn’t have any problem driving a line-level input of most preamps in most systems.You’ll just need ... | |
| Which 300b amplifier for Devore O/96 @essrand Thanks for providing the update. Assuming a listening distance of say 10 or 12 feet, and a medium sized room, and given that the speakers are not planars or line sources, and factoring in a few db of "room gain," according to my calculati... | |
| Cardas XLR to RCA adapter comparison? A point to be aware of when adapting an XLR output to an RCA input is that most such adapters short one of the two signals in the balanced signal pair (usually the one on XLR pin 3) to ground (XLR pin 1). Depending on the design of the particular ... |