larryi
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| Vinyl Warm Up Time Yes, it is hard to dismiss the possibility that the benefits are all in one's head, but, it might well be that it takes quite a while for a cartridge suspension to soften from use or physically warming up. The suspension becoming more compliant f... | |
| Vinyl Warm Up Time Did you go back to the first albums you played in a session to confirm that they sound better after the several hour warmup? Even that basic test is, of course, not really strong verification, but, it is at least better than comparing the sound o... | |
| Leave it on? There would be a problem if the preamp/linestage emits a thump when it is turned on or off and your amplifier is on and sends that thump to your speaker. If it is loud enough, it may be annoying, or even worse, damaging. | |
| Leave it on? I turn my gear off when not in use, and I have never had a tube go bad even after 15 years of regular use. Of course, I cannot say that I would have had a shorter life for my tubes if I left them on all of the time; I have no comparative data. T... | |
| lightning storm Yes, it is probably EMI either entering directly into your system or EMI affecting your power lines. In any even, it is better to turn everything off during a storm. Even better is to unplug the gear because a direct hit of lightning could be po... | |
| Leave it on? Invalid, Your personal experience represents a small sample size. Also, it sounds like you experience a lot of tube death in order to detect a pattern. Is it possible that your gear is hard on tubes, particularly at turn on? If your gear has t... | |
| Leave it on? There is no issue with tube amps--they should be turned off when not in use because all tube filaments have a limited life and tube amps warm up fairly quickly. With solid state, the answer is a bit more complicated because life of transistors ar... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? I don't see how any reasonable evaluation via youtube is possible. First, it takes a master recording engineer to do a recording properly and good microphones cost many thousands of dollars each, and many are needed so that the right microphone f... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? In those sort of crazy car stereo competitions, there was a criteria and a fixed goal--how loud can you get your system to play. But, unless you have that same criteria for your home audio, I don't see it as a competition is there is no way to es... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Mine is not competitive at all. It just sits there unmotivated until I turn it on. I suspect that it is putting in minimum effort to please me. it is like owning a cat. Still, I do like it a lot. What would my system be competing for anyway, ... | |
| Luxman 509z or Aesthetix Mimas I’ve heard the 30.2 with either an Audio Note Soro or Oto integrated amp and with the Synthesis A40 and A100 integrated tube amp. All sounded good. These two Synthesis amps are among my favorite integrated amps—warm, bold, punchy, and a sense of... | |
| Luxman 509z or Aesthetix Mimas I like the Harbeth 30.2 a lot. I know Harbeth pushes solid state and a lot of power for their speakers, but, I've heard the 30.2 with medium powered tube amps and I like that combination a lot. I would not overlook tube integrated amps in the 30... | |
| New vs uses in your current setup Much of my gear is both new and used simultaneously. My amp and linestage, for example is "new" in that a custom builder made it for me, but virtually all of the parts in it are used and vintage, some transformers being as much as 80 years old or... | |
| Yamaha HX-10000 phonostage, any views? I could not think of what it utilized that was non-compliant, except for lead in solder. Their phono stage was NOT battery based; it had a massive separate power supply. Maybe ROHS was an excuse for ceasing production, for all I know. I wish I... | |
| Yamaha HX-10000 phonostage, any views? Lyra once made a phono stage, the Lyra Connoisseur (based on design purchased from Mares), that was an all out assault on the state of the art. I got to hear this extremely lively and vivid sounding phono stage. Lyra stopped production claiming ... |