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| Garrard 401 service & tweaking my new project. Why would changing the voltage on the voltage create a condition where the strobe wouldn't work? It's still 33.3, or is it the voltage on the lamp? | |
| Tesla Battery as a power supply? I was just thinking that if the battery can store electricity from either the grid or cells on the roof it would be a natural buffer to line noise, and that might have some sonic value. | |
| Quiex svp blue note records I have a couple. Sonny Rollins, I believe. Very quiet vinyl, as the name implies. They don't have quite the clarity of the Music Matters pressings, but - at least the ones I have - aren't too far from it. I think they're 200g pressings, also. Good... | |
| primer on buying vintage tubes? Once you buy your first old tubes, forever with they dominate your soul. | |
| Cartridge Alignment You can get a Geodisc on Amazon for $49.95. They work great. | |
| More mainstream news on growing interest in vinyl It's these damned Johnny-Come-Lately bearded hipsters, making good vinyl at reasonable prices harder to find. | |
| Audio Technica ART 9 I saw that LP Gear has it. Is AT having a distribution issue in the US? It seems like there are very few places carrying their cartridges, especially their higher end ones. | |
| Alignment question I was thinking the same thing, especially now that I found the bases to the Pans. (movers had buried them in the garage. Took ten weeks to find them.) | |
| Swap out 12bz7 in favor of 12ax7? Just to follow up on this. I got my amp back today from Cary and did a quick A/B comparison between the 12bz7 and the 12ay7s and, indeed, the output volume with the 12ay7's is lower than the 12bz7's, requiring a little more volume on the pre-amp. ... | |
| Swap out 12bz7 in favor of 12ax7? Sorry, I transposed that tube number. It should be a 6072A. | |
| Swap out 12bz7 in favor of 12ax7? The EL84s aren't really in the signal chain. He said the 12BZ7s would be a better place to start. | |
| Swap out 12bz7 in favor of 12ax7? I suppose what I should have done in the first place is to call Cary and see what they had to say about it, so I did. Marc, their V12 guru, says that the 12bz7 and 12ax7 both have a mu of about 100 and so would have similar gain characteristics. T... | |
| Single ended RCA preamp short list Emotive Audio (not Emotiva). All single ended tubes, made in Pennsylvania. Great equipment. I'm listening to mine right now. | |
| Any tricks to firing up a pair of Maggie IIa's? Just to follow up on this - we hooked them up the Maggies yesterday and they work fine. They throw a much bigger soundstage in my room than my Verities, though at six times the frontal area I would expect them to. This is the first time I've ever ... | |
| Speaker grills I leave mine on my Verity Fidelio Encores. They take just an ever-so-slight hard edge off the treble. |