billpete
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| And a Happy 4th to all! @baylinor No, that wasn't me. That was the guy I was talking with. I am almost 73. | |
| Havelock Wool acoustic panels vs fiberglass/Rockwool @mckinneymike Very good for you. Also, it is a lucky man to love his work. I "mostly" enjoyed mine but it was not a job for old guys. Forced retirement by 65 if you didn't get the idea before that. :) 18 years back for me but I was only 55 then.... | |
| And a Happy 4th to all! Yes, happy 4th to all. Special day for my wife and me, we'll be married 50 years as of tomorrow. Have a great day everyone and don't blow yourself up. :) | |
| Havelock Wool acoustic panels vs fiberglass/Rockwool @mckinneymike I understand. I'm sure you'll end up very happy with it. Just have to get used to the sheep smell. :) Might want some diffusers or some kind of sound treatments up in the A frame area. I'm no expert, that's for sure. Lots of good a... | |
| Havelock Wool acoustic panels vs fiberglass/Rockwool @mckinneymike Might be a good sound barrier but wool is quite flammable and fumes from it burning are highly toxic. Not sure what an insurance company might think of it. There are some safety reasons why we use rock wool, sheet rock and other su... | |
| 6SN7 tubes and variants question. @immatthewj Well, I hope we are talking about the same tube. The RCA JAN VT231 does get a lot of praise. My National Union pair has much darker glass, literally black like the Tung Sols. The RCA VT231's have a dark gray smoke glass which appears... | |
| 6SN7 tubes and variants question. @immatthewj I think VT231's should be the same specs as GT's or W's as they were made for the military in WWII. GTA's came out around 1952 and GTB's in 1954, if I remember right. Anyway, I have a few pairs of VT231's, just haven't tried any yet.... | |
| 6SN7 tubes and variants question. @immatthewj Thanks for this. I have read all of this stuff repeatedly. You see some minor discrepancies here and there but the bulk of it is the same. W is the nomenclature given to the industrial versions (ruggedized) for heavy use. W's are pop... | |
| 6SN7 tubes and variants question. @tomcy6 Thanks. This is essentially what I read. This seems to agree with what I read on Head Fi, that using a GT or early tube in something that was designed for the later GTA/GTB types, could cause problems. What I read made it sound like you ... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @richardbrand Have you witnessed the 64 foot pipe? I've always wondered what the experience would be like. You probably never hear/feel that pipe by itself so maybe hard to describe. I'm sure you do feel it but it's hard to imagine hearing nothi... | |
| Sound right before song begins on vinyl, what is it? @tcutter It seems like the only explanation in that case is the vinyl flaw, which was explained by someone earlier. It is kind of hard to imagine that one sounding as an exact but faint replica of the song that is about to begin. Does it? I don'... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @freediver I wasn't trying to give you a hard time. Just struck me as funny that you wouldn't think of a piano as a stringed instrument and I know that you realize that it is. As others point out, the deepest bass notes on the piano are often ac... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @freediver The piano is a stringed instrument. It is one of the best to evaluate gear. If our gear can't make a piano sound real, we are missing something. I don't know the lowest note on a piano (in hz) but it is quite low. Cello lowest notes a... | |
| Sound right before song begins on vinyl, what is it? I'm going to have to pay more attention the next time I hear this phenomenon to measure the duration etc. It makes the most sense to me to think that this is a tape related problem. I have trouble understanding how the vinyl flaws could sound the ... | |
| Sound right before song begins on vinyl, what is it? @drbond Thanks for an interesting read. Seems that there can be a couple of reasons. I "think" most of what I hear is the tape bleed through type but who knows. I'll have to pay attention to when I hear it and try to observe what might be the ca... |