mulveling
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| Buying Used Equipment on the Internet The vast majority of 100% feedback, hobbyist gear traders on here are not going to stick you with a "lemon". I once sold a DAC that arrived DOA -- somehow it went bad between my last listen and arriving at the buyer. After a couple hundred transac... | |
| Audio Research REF 750 pre July 4 FIRE WORKS. TUBE ARC. VAC and others have built and sold monster tube amps with vertical designs but power is useless without reliability and user-serviceability. Even the biggest VACs still use only 8 output tubes per side, compared to 16 in each Ref 750! At that p... | |
| Audio Research REF 750 pre July 4 FIRE WORKS. TUBE ARC. Yes, I had similar happen in 2010. I know it sucks. It was an EH KT90 in one of my Rogue Apollo monoblocks. They're no lightweights at six KT88/90/120 per side, but still nothing like your 750! Anyways, yeah a few seconds of fireworks and then a p... | |
| Benz Micro Glider Loading I can suggest: The Hagerman Trumpet MC is very flexible, easy to adjust in gain & loading with front knobs, sounds great, and doesn’t cost much. Its main limitation is lack of adjustable capacitive loading for MM. It has a warm sound that goes... | |
| Benz Micro Glider Loading You have a "Medium" output Glider at 0.9mV and 24 ohm coils. Folks running a Glider below 200 ohms typically have the "Low" output version, at 0.3 - 0.4mV depending on series (e.g. L2 versus current SL) and 12 ohm coils. Therefore there are differ... | |
| Bridged amps vs stereo vs monoblocks. So we all know V = I * R. Bridging a 2ch stereo amp to mono doubles the output Voltage, halves the load Resistance each amp channel "sees", and then because of this each amp ch also *tries* to supply double the current (I), but how much of that i... | |
| Can’t buy output tubes anywhere except from manufacturers at high prices. @weebeesdad Yes, I have the Viva Mullard KT88 in my 200iQ’s right now. I’ve previously (this year) had both Gold Lion KT88 (stock from VAC) and Tung-Sol KT120 in these same amps. I haven’t directly compared the two, and I’m not going to say they... | |
| Can’t buy output tubes anywhere except from manufacturers at high prices. Viva Tubes has them. The prices are up but, the price of everything is up now.. They've been out of KT120 and Gold Lion KT88 for a while now. And their supplies may be dwindling on remaining Russian KT88, EH KT90, and KT150. Mullard KT88 are ... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey I may come into a windfall and am considering an Innovation Wood Black/Piano Black with black 12" Universal. I already have a Lyra Atlas Lambda SL, so that should be a killer combo. @dwette Lovely! My experience is that this Universal 12" arm ... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey @dwette its footprint is an equilateral triangle where the sides are just under 15" each (including the steel pad spike cups). So the "height" of the triangle would be just under 13". So, 16" x 16" should work. It is indeed a 12" Universal. I had... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey @dwette My platform is the standard Size 3 (the largest): Size 3 52x40cm (20.5×16") It's a little tight in the 16" dimension, but works. I inquired about a custom sizing but since it would be extra cost and wait time I just went for the stand... | |
| Step Up Transformer Ah the endless audiogon churn between those who pursue what should sound good versus those of us who only care what actually sounds good! I seriously don’t care what happens at or above 100kHz. And for vinyl playback, any significant signal below ... | |
| Can’t buy output tubes anywhere except from manufacturers at high prices. I thought it was always common knowledge the "Telefunken Black Label" tubes were just JJ’s. Always look at the shape of the glass dome (especially on EL34, for example) -- only JJ’s have that goofy, awkward rounded dome shape. | |
| Step Up Transformer From personal (okay lewm?) experience I’ve learned that some combinations stand out, sometimes when you least expect it to. The sound has an intrinsic rightness, as if there’s some kind of electric handshake. In my system(s) the Ortofon cartridge... | |
| Step Up Transformer The 1254 @pindac mentions is indeed very similar to the Sky 20. I’ve had both. The Sky might be a bit sweeter but both have that “boogie” factor and lush midrange that I think really benefits the Ortofon MC cartridges (which can otherwise be too ... |