johnss
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| NOS Tung Sol 6550 VS Tung Sol 6550 New Production sorry, meant regulator. | |
| NOS Tung Sol 6550 VS Tung Sol 6550 New Production you may want to consider the Shuguang KT88-T nature sound series. among the best sounding 6550/KT88 I have heard, in a power amp, but do not know what it would sound like as a rectifier. | |
| Upgrading Quicksilver preamp or amp caps -- warranty impact? as mentioned, the manufacturers can not afford to install high end copper foil caps, they retail price increase would just be too much. Also if you want to go further, replace the bias and plate load resistors with wire wound. will make the amp mu... | |
| Looking for a vinylesk sounding DAC you really also need to look at what you are converting analog to digital with as well as the reverse conversion.You may want to consider the Denafrips line of DACs; great bang for the buck. | |
| Upgrading Quicksilver preamp or amp caps -- warranty impact? @hilde45, if you are going to go to the trouble of replacing caps, go at least to the copper foil caps from Jensen or Jupiter. Other than the Duelands, they are the most organic sounding caps I have tried. Will make a big difference on your quicks... | |
| vinyl versus digital redux Have to side with Atmosphere here. He is correct. Would agree on the minimalist method of doing most things, and most of the major labels do have climate controlled storage conditions for their session masters. That is not to say many production o... | |
| Please identify these NOS 6550s would agree with @jond , get them tested before you do anything. no point in using your amp as a tube tester. a 20 yr old Shuguang is going to be good for the trash, likely not good for normal use......that shuguang was made back when you had a ... | |
| vinyl versus digital redux "I find this statement suspect and can only assume a mistake in the setup." Too funny, thanks for the humor. As you noted correctly, clocks are used to sync all the gear, but that is only one function. The other function is to reduce drift. Look a... | |
| vinyl versus digital redux The other comment I forgot to add, is regardless of the digital sampling freq. and bit depth, most commercial recordings released on digital use quite a bit of compression in the signal chain, which is sad. One of the main advantages of digital, ... | |
| vinyl versus digital redux @seventies, this topic has been beat to death over the years; many claiming digital is more pure than analogue and analogue has so many colorations that don't exist in digital. If you are simply ripping your LPs for ease of use, that is one thing.... | |
| Upgrade capacitors in tube amplifier? @chinook9, There are 7 film caps in there. The two on either side of the chassis appear to be the coupling caps. The two towards the front of the chassis appear to be doing additional filtering for the input tubes, they are tied to what appears to... | |
| Is static the culprit? would doubt its caused by static, would vote for one or more cold solder joints somewhere in the signal path. | |
| Phono preamp worth it with MM cartridges? Roger,a good phono stage makes an improvement with either a MM or LOMC cart. There are quite a few good ones out there, just depends on how deep you want to go into the woods. In the sub 2k range look for a used Manley Chinook. Does very well with... | |
| New PrimaLuna Evo's On any of the PL amps, HP, EVO, Non-HP, you have not heard them until you get those plastic film coupling caps replaced with copper foils from Jensen or Jupiter. Takes you much closer to the sound of the VAC amps. | |
| Genalex Gold Lion 12AX7 - different grades? Would agree with @milpai, go with the psvanes from vivatubes. vivia tubes is also carrying the latest vanes, the new art series.. Have just ordered a quad set for myself but have not tried em yet. |