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| Help me stay with Vinyl. CLEAN, QUIET LP’s (inexpensive manual method)I’m loving how quiet my dirty old lp’s sound.Your problem helped me out, I now have a very successful inexpensive manual cleaning method. I am getting essentially no noise out of old dirty static filled... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Bias Control, look for external control, some have meters. My early Cayin A88T tube integrated Amp has internal adjustments. (I needed 16 ohm taps).Later Cayin models, only 8 and 4 ohm taps, have external bias. I highly recommend Cayin. As for mad... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? I started this about remote balance a while ago https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/remote-balance-control-on-tube-integrated-amp | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Phono now?Future?If no phono now, I vote for Tube Integrated Amp now, then you get tube sound, and later, if you add phono, you add a separate tube preamp for that.Newer units have remote volume, nicea few have remote balance. People here are prob... | |
| Toole and why I like Tone Controls noble1001 yes, it can be: huh? tweak, better? a bit more?then, go back, start that track or LP over, enjoy it like never before.sometimes, after adjusting the 1st track, all the following tracks, LP or CD sound better than ever.If you listen ... | |
| Toole and why I like Tone Controls noble1001 Setup ONCE, on, enjoy, at the ready:1. remote balance tweak from listening position2. remote volume from listening position2a. Loudness Contour is automatically engaged by lowering the volume whereby bass boost is progressively enga... | |
| Matching tubes polk432 the tubes I am sending back are 6sl7’s, from my integrated amp. Surprisingly they effected the sound substantially. the amp also has 6sn7’s, have not replaced them yet.the original tubes say ’Cayin’, the manufacturer, so I don’t know their... | |
| Matching tubes I would always buy a matched pair. Considering the future, most likely one going at a time, preferably a matched quad if money is easy (hah).. In either case, having your one good used one will give you the luxury of time in the future.I assume yo... | |
| What Possessed Me to Do This? So, like a Christmas Club, we should all start a savings plan to pay a professional packer/mover. | |
| BEST S.S. AMP FOR TANNOY 15'' SPEAKERS Do you already own some, or will you be buying a pair? You may start out with SS, but, eventually I bet you will want to hear them driven by tubes. Therefore, IMO, just start with an Integrated Tube Amp now!They are high enough sensitivity/effi... | |
| Best songs to test speakers Bring your own music that you are very familiar with.I bring these 5:enough is enough duet, Barbra Streisand and Donna summer, hear their voices distinctly?https://www.discogs.com/Barbra-Streisand-Donna-Summer-No-More-Tears-Enough-Is-Enough/master... | |
| confused and don't know what to do Oh yeah, legacy stuff, I also have a VCR, and a quiet fanless PC (video on the motherboard), with small wireless keyboard for total access to the Internet. PC was used a lot prior to smart tv's and the restricted browsers of early smart tv's. PC h... | |
| confused and don't know what to do People, like my neice, many others, love minimalist Video Environments: TV/Monitor wall mounted, no deep cabinet for equipment below, no big speakers. They often compromise with wireless speakers.Big Mistake IMO. No way to meet OP's desire for gre... | |
| Balance knob .. The Chase Unit. Did you look at it's features? Not understand it? Line CONTROLLER (not conditioner). Volume, Balance, Treble, Bass, Input switching. Noise free 105dn S/NI am suggesting in your situation, asymetrical speaker locations, asymetri... | |
| confused and don't know what to do seems to memillercarbon simply will not compromise his amazing 2 channel system. audiotroy may hope for sales, however I believe they do make effort to share their experience which I appreciate. people ask for advice, they are highly experienced ... |