mulveling
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| Location of compoments. Agree with @ozzy62 - the details of what you're putting in the middle, and how (flush with baffles, or further back?) makes all the difference. I do gear to the side for one system, and in the middle (but pushed back) for another. Both do great, a... | |
| What were your favorite gear additions in 2024? Big rig didn’t change at all; it’s exactly where it needs to be and at this point I’m more likely to mess it up than anything. Small rig (office system) continued to be my "sanbox" for a 2nd year, and I went through a TON of stuff. It’s setlling ... | |
| Solid state amp that tube fan can be happy with? It will never sound exactly like tubes. SS can in fact sound sweet, and really really good, but will never be quite as full and warm as good tubes (and EL34 are pretty sweet). And when SS goes TOO warm (maybe in an ill-fated attempt to match tubes... | |
| Using headphones with Rogue RP-1 DON’T feed the A90 into the Rogue. Take the preamp output from the Rogue (one of the 2 RCA outputs on back, NOT the fixed level one) and feed that into the A90. Then plug your headphones into the A90 (or Schiit). Find a reasonable level on the A90... | |
| In need of a preamp with a prominent display ARC has the best clear, big, bright numeric displays. I just love the look of a big, crisp VFD display. Monochrome in blue or green - MUCH better than LCD or OLED for this use-case, IMO. One of my pet peeves in the space of 2ch preamps is analog ... | |
| Right channel phono stage tube goes noisy That’s a tough one, and I don’t have any ideas beyond what’s been posited by others. Just wanted to say I’ve encountered more gremlin-y issues with 6922 / 6DJ8 tubes (and sometimes the components that use them) than any other tube type. F that tub... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil The Rogue Ares phono stage also allows loading a SUT at 100K or 1 MEG ohms (in addition to the usual 47K option), and has done so since its introduction ~ 2010. It's certainly a rare feature that I wish was far more common! Yes, it allows a cartri... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil Agree 100% with everything @herman said! | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Regardless of what we each think of the term "UltraLinear", and its alignment on the good-versus-evil spectrum, I found the following diagram most succinct and easy to digest. It’s from a web search that hits el34world dot com. Note the wiring in... | |
| NAD M22 V1 versus M22 V2 or M23 @cpg80 Funny, I’ve also ended up with my M22 on a mixed tv / movies / streaming setup - where its "crisp" sound does great! I still think it’s a sweet amp for the money with a ton of power, but for 2ch it did best when I had a decidedly dark sou... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Isn’t ul mode solid State? Doesn’t it make sense that more would be involved for solid State and that it would sound a little bit I think use of the word ultra linear is a marketing term and kind of dumb Out of all the possible questions to b... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Everything was great at first then after a couple months the problems began, when I would turn everything on after a hour the amp would make the most awful load noises like metal bending and it was loud. That went on no matter what I would do,the... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode I readily admit to how illiterate I am when it comes to electrical. Actually I had always thought that the one was a synonym for the other. I am in need of an education. Can you put into layman’s terms the difference between the three? If layman’... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Don’t feel bad about it. There’s some paranormal audiophile force that makes us feel like the more "purist" approach must always be better: triode versus pentode, DHT versus separate heaters, single-ended versus push-pull, ladder-dac versus delta-... | |
| a resonance in my left ear If the resonance is caused by the outer parts of your ear or canal - try pressing down on your earlobe or pulling on it to see if you can affect or mitigate it? There is a lot of energy in piano and it could excite resonances in a different freque... |