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| Point to point wiring. There is certainly some truth to that. I have seen arc-over, due to circuit board contamination, that has heavily damaged PCBs in some tube amps I have serviced over the years. This is something that does not happen with point to point wiring. Vac... | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? Scully record lathe with Westerex 3D cutterhead. The lathe dates from 1947.alsoAmpex 351 tape machine from 1957 (1/2" tape). Rebuilt of course. Unstoppable.Both sound fabulous. | |
| Trelja- announcement and disclaimer Hi Joe, I ran Frieds for years. I was always planning to go to a newer model someday.Its awesome to hear that Fried has reappeared.Good Luck on the new venture! | |
| Best Line Stage Preamp? Actually, there probably is a 'best'. A line stage should perform the following functions:1) control the effects of the interconnect cables in the system. In general, transistor units do this rather well and tube units do this rather poorly, passi... | |
| Point to point wiring. Hard time? Get it? Oh, never mind :)On a more serious note (somehow back on topic), I don't think anyone pointed out here that point to point wiring is a much bigger deal for tube amps then transistor amps. Tubes being high impedance devices, they... | |
| Point to point wiring. Huh. Is that anything like that time we were in San Francisco? | |
| Point to point wiring. Albert, don't you need to settle down a little? No-one even knows what a Pinto is anymore! Its easy to assume that you are a millionaire since you have such a wacked stereo *and* you live in Dallas, *and* you get a tax write-off on your SUV. Its a... | |
| Atma-sphere MP-1 vs Mark Levinson 32 Hi Springbok10, Albert and Rushton are two very meticulous audiophiles, and you can usually count on their experiences as being bonafide.Albert's experience with the MP-1 is from ten years ago. The MP-1 of his comments was discontinued about 8 yea... | |
| To Hot to Handle? Actually, the filaments do not make most of the heat, which is a common misconception. The tube conducting makes most of the heat- by that I mean the tube conducting as a matter of its class of operation (class A or AB for example), and conducting... | |
| Digital potentiometers versus mechanical? Eldartford is right about stepped attenuators, built up from discrete parts. There are no digital volume controls, by contrast, that work properly at all (they all loose serious resolution as they are turned down- IMO, a failed concept).It is poss... | |
| Switching and linear power supplies in hi-fi Most use linear regulators but in the next two years that might be changing due to additional EU import restrictions. The EU will be requiring 'zero phase angle' power supplies in all electronics imported to the EU. Switching power supplies are th... | |
| To Hot to Handle? If the amplifier is not class A, the heat of the tubes will be minimal. You might be suprised how much heat a transistor amp can make too- sometimes not really a lot less then a tube amp. A lot is depending on how you play the system and the class... | |
| what is DC leakage? Can it rip my Revel M20? See if you can get someone to help you measure for a DC voltage on the speaker terminals of the amp. If there is none present, it was a coincidence. | |
| Atma-sphere MP-1 vs Mark Levinson 32 Hi Rushton, Thanks for the kind words.I thought I might point out FWIW that in the last four years or so since you heard an MP-1 a lot has changed (we got a Golden Ear Award too...), as you might expect. The Aesthetix gear continues to be fine equ... | |
| Trelja and friends in New York, 2004 There are two 'sources', both LP. The fist is if you can find the original radio-play LPs. These are very rare. I've never seen them. The second is if you can find 'Rhapsody in PINK (the Psychedelic Years) by the Screaming Abdabs. Obviously a boot... |