vair68robert
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| A question about tube rolling Wow , what a great experience , meeting a tube guy is like winning the lottery for tube rolling . I will say that rolling 2 exact same tubes is a lot easier than my situation where I have 6 tubes of 3 different types used in a Tavish Designs phono... | |
| Resistors for phono preamp Audio Note Tantalum resistors , smallest is 1/2 watt but they sound great . | |
| Thiel Owners thieliste I rewired my 2.7 with Cardas when I found out that the speakers had wire that (I think) was used on the " new Thiel " speakers , a 16awg stranded lamp cord style . At first I used 15.5awg for all 3 speakers , I then switched to 17.5 fo... | |
| Forward Sounding Speaker Crossover Components - Suggestions? Since Clarity Caps have been mentioned I add my experience with then . I Recapped and resistored my crossovers in phases , first I tackled the woofer using CC CMR cap on the positive and an CC MR cap on the negative ( because of size ) , these we... | |
| Thiel Owners devinplombier Out of curiosity what capacitor values were not available, and what manufacture capacitors are you using ? | |
| Phono stage comparisons If you enjoy tube gear Tavish Designs Adagio is all tube with 44 db gain for MM cartridges and it cost less than Manley . | |
| Phono stage comparisons Are you using a MM or MC cartridge ? | |
| Thiel Owners I usually use symphony orchestra music Beethoven's symphonies or Dvorak's "New World " 9th symphony by the Chicago Symphony with Fritz Reiner conducting. I will also use David Crosby's first album to listen to the chiming guitar sounds and how the... | |
| Thiel Owners I agree with you about the grills off and I too wish the woofers were black , I'm not sure if an aluminum baffle frame would be an improvement but since the woofer and the baffle are the same as the 2.4 ( of which many more were built ) maybe som... | |
| Orchestrated Rock...Uriah Heep and others ELP , Yes , Jethro Tull and Queen as orchestrated rock . Rock with orchestra The Moody Blues "S/T" with the LSO , ELP "Works " with the Orchestra de'l Opera de Paris , Ian Anderson "A Classic Case" with the LSO . | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album @ phillyspecial since you brought up Santana you might want to try to find the first 3 and only released by ARS Joerg Kessler - CBS 30595 Germany 2001 . These sound better than MFSL and CBS Half Speed Master Sound . | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album + 1 relayer101 I'll add the 3 releases of Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 , "Stravinsky" CSO Solti , Nina Simone "Emergency Ward! " , Jefferson Airplane " Volunteers" , I have a few more so I'll just say any release by Speakers Corner . | |
| Building crossovers I looked at an image of the crossover board , just one resistor and 3 caps , so replace the resistor with mills or path audio since there is only 1, I used Clarity Purity caps when I upgraded my Thiel 2.7 crossovers . Size , Size and Size , your... | |
| Audiogon seller's question ozzy62 I apologize for going off topic and then answering an invalid response . Congratulations on getting new speakers . | |
| Audiogon seller's question As far as I know American corporations are making record profits and paying CEO's exorbitant amounts . |