drbarney1
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| Never heard an amp do this before, ideas? When I had to live in an apartment I had an upstairs neighbor who played his stereo so loud that it disturbed my piece, quiet, privacy, and my right to choose for myself what music I wanted to hear. He bullied me with his trashy music when I asked... | |
| Really Inexpensive Systems That Sounded Great? Get a book on vacuum tube design and go for SET in the preamplifier and amplifier. They are easy to design and to build. You can do the same with open baffle speaker designs using full range speakers that require very little power. 2A3 or 45 triod... | |
| When were the best tube amps made? With a single ended tube amp it is easy to build your own. But to keep it linear you can't push a tube very hard. You need heavy duty transmitter tubes. There is a WAVAC SET that sold for $350,000 that you can build with under $2000 in retail part... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 I could never afford Dr. Feikert's turntable, but I admire it for two reasons. First, I know what it takes to earn a PhD and it is very probable Dr. Feikert applied the same conscientious attention to detail in designing and perfecting his turntab... | |
| Headphones vs speakers…. There is a difficulty most people do not have with "luxury" high end headphones. They are all made with leather and I have ethical objections to killing animals for their body parts or for food. If I wanted the headphone experience, this is a limi... | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero I wanted SET sound with Magnapan speakers (0.7 with DWMs are the biggest I can fit into my little 26-foot-diameter house.) I could not bring my amplifier to audition it because it has too many separate components: twin KV power supplies, cathode h... | |
| So, I listened to a $1Million Dollar System I am confident in assuming those who found a million dollar system lacking were not rationalising their way out of suffering envy. I am a little put off by such a system only well suited to one listener in a minuscule sweet spot and not so speci... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? If a manufacturer tries to masterbate the economy with upgrades every few years or even months, should we trust them to make their designs a labor of love? I don't trust manipulative people or corporations. There is too much fraud and snake oil in... | |
| Share your ‘I MacGyver’d it’ solutions I fought back against neighbors who blasted shitmusic from an outdoor stereo by using microwave oven parts in a homemade sheet-copper horn antenna to microwave and stop their stereo. I was in my last year of the coursework for my PhD in physics an... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? I design and build most of my own stuff. A SET amplifier using the best parts such as heavier duty output transformers than the most expensive factory made amplifiers you can buy and polypropylene capacitors in the high voltage power supply rated ... | |
| Amp Internal Wire In the case of tube circuits a centimeter or two of wire is in series with the conductors in the tube sockets and the pins up through their connections to the internal tube parts such as the plate not made of silver, the grid wires, and the cathod... | |
| 2-3k budget - adding DAC/Server to Bluesound Node? I got a Bluesound Vault a few years ago and ripped all my CD's onto it, but could not access the music by composer or symphony number. It only lists "song" and "artist" which only applies to pop music. I got some help transferring the files onto ... | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing I am skeptical about the extreme prices. In 2003 Stereophile Magazine did a review of a stereo amplifier that uses 833A radio station transmitter tubes with their grids driven by 300B SET. It sold for $350,000. Using the best transformers and part... | |
| Isn't it really about quality of recording? Let us not forget the performance. The most critically acclaimed conductor's interpretation of a symphony may not sound as good to some people as a lesser rated performance by a different conductor. Next matter the recording and the equipment incl... | |
| Tube Integrated Under 1,500 Don't overlook the possibility of building one from a kit or set of plans. You will be surprised at the simplicity of an SET. If you know someone to guide you you will have a successful and satisfactory outcome. You can go for polypropylene filter... |