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| Can you touch the tubes? If a base is loose, even completely free of the glass envelope, as long as the wires are not cut, you can glue the base and glass together. I use high temperature epoxy, but I have no idea if that is the best glue to use. It is not that common f... | |
| Can you touch the tubes? If a tube has a separate base, you pull and push it in by that base to prevent separation of the base from the glass envelope. But there is NO need to be concerned about oil being deposited on the glass. That concern comes from what happens to s... | |
| Best Vintage tube amp / preamp manufacturer With Western Electric, it is both sound and collector value that makes its gear so expensive. The circuits tend to be simple and one can find clones made with modern parts. Many such clones sound quite good, but, when one hears a vintage amp in ... | |
| Do you think driver “break in” is real? Speakers are mechanical devices with compliant suspension parts that work by stretching and flexing. These parts need to be worked to reach the level of suppleness they are supposed to have when operating. I am less sure about the reliability of... | |
| Best Vintage tube amp / preamp manufacturer Western Electric, Northern Electric, RCA, Marantz, Sansui are some of the old tube gear makers who made good stuff way back. I own custom made amps and a linestage made with vintage parts from such gear (mainly Western Electric transformers, caps... | |
| Best Vintage tube amp / preamp manufacturer Western Electric, Northern Electric, RCA, Marantz, Sansui are some of the old tube gear makers who made good stuff way back. I own custom made amps and a linestage made with vintage parts from such gear (mainly Western Electric transformers, caps... | |
| Best Vintage tube amp / preamp manufacturer Western Electric, Northern Electric, RCA, Marantz, Sansui are some of the old tube gear makers who made good stuff way back. I own custom made amps and a linestage made with vintage parts from such gear (mainly Western Electric transformers, caps... | |
| Primer on SSD and internal hard drives SSD would be a type of hard drive. As the initials suggest, SSD is a solid state drive so there are no moving parts. Other drivers have a mechanically spinning disc (e.g., SATA drives). SSD drives were once MUCH more expensive than the SATA dri... | |
| MoFi lawsuit I have heard a number of these records and own a couple. They do sound quite good. But, I think records sound good when mastered and pressed well because they are records, not because of the upstream recording format. Many of us simply like the... | |
| Blown Cap???What Else To Replace During Service??? Just have it repaired. There is no good way to predict ahead of time what will go next. | |
| DAC's from the past, are any of them really worth much today? I will take a 20+ year old Audio Note DAC 5 Signature over just about any other DAC on the market today. It was crazy expensive then, and the current Audio Note DAC 5 Signature is much more crazily priced. I bet this model has not changed much i... | |
| Horns with good timbre and tonality? The builder Deja Vu Audio is rushing to build and show a system at Capital Audiofest with twin 18’ woofers and a large square horn sitting on top with a straight horn that is 38” long (hence, the horn cannot be built into the cabinet). The big wo... | |
| Horns with good timbre and tonality? Today, I heard an exceptionally good midrange horn. For comparison purposes, one channel of a stereo pair was equipped with a wooden horn with a mouth opening around 16” wide and around 13” tall. The other channel had a wooden replica of a Weste... | |
| Should I graduate to floor standers or will larger bookshelves suffice? I also thought that it makes no sense to go with stand-mounted speakers that take the same floorspace as floor standing speakers. But, there are many examples of stand mounted speakers that are really good and sound better than many comparably si... | |
| Should I graduate to floor standers or will larger bookshelves suffice? It is really hard to say what is the best general approach you should take, much less specific recommendations. The larger cabinets of a floorstanding speaker suggests deeper and stronger bass response, but whether that is “better” is hard to haz... |