johnss
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| Need help with MM cartridge choice agree with @noromance , at that price point the AT VM540 is pretty tough to beat. Very musical sounding cart. | |
| Reel to reel , is it real the hype! before you do anything, you may want to see what is available in tapes first. There are a number of companies that sell them. As others have noted far from cheap. But once you hear true high speed tape it blows the other formats into the weeds. Th... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above If I was looking at dropping 10 large, would be looking at a phono stage upgrade over a table. | |
| Cary V-12 blowing capacitors If the main PS Caps were already replaced and failed again, I would be looking at the rectifiers, its possible they may have failed and some AC is being seen by the caps. | |
| McIntosh MC275 VI preamp tubes you may want to test the input tube for performance. As others have noted, they usually last quite a while. If you do not have a MC tester, some places offer testing for a reasonable price | |
| Best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp that 6550 is not in the signal path, but I bet you will still hear a small difference. I would be inclined to try a PSVANE KT88 gray glass tube... | |
| After-market mod for VTL TL 2.5 I used to have the TL 2.5. If you look inside quite a bit of room to make upgrades or improvements. 1. coupling caps 2. bypasses on main filter caps. 3. bypasses on the coupling caps. 4. soft recovery diodes in the power supply. Do not know of a... | |
| VTL 300 Deluxe monoblocks on those 300s, I be worrying about the power supply filters. They have a known history of drying out due to the heat they are exposed to. I would replace those big filter caps (check mouser or digikey for comparables) then reflow all the octal soc... | |
| Cheap Amazon Chinese tube pre amps @mozartfan is correct. even with chinese cheap labor, you still get what you get for a hundred bucks. I tried a few of the more expensive models (300-600 range). They are much better, but still not a 16K preamp. | |
| Has anyone ever used a company called vacuum tube values to purchase vacuum tubes? I have used them. They are a good source for either KT88 or KT77.I have a pair of V-12 monos. Am quite happy running EH KT88s in them. so while not answering your Q, gave you another option to consider. good luck | |
| Replace a 12at7 with a 12av7? the 12AV7 is lower gain than the 12AT7. Should not hurt anything if you try it, but you may want to measure the plate voltage first with the AT7 in place. Then re-measure plate voltage with the AV7. Depending on how stiff the power supply you may ... | |
| What's your definition of analog smell? would agree with an earlier poster, a fresh box of open reel tape, that is the smell of analogue..... | |
| Parasound HCA-2200? years ago, owned both the 2200 Mk1 and the 2200 Mk2. Both are nice amps, but the MK2 was the John Curl designed unit with dual transformers, two power supplies etc. would agree with the others, for 300 bucks a pretty good deal. | |
| Cartridge recommendations? the AT VM540ML is really good, and within your budget...Very musical sounding cart as is the MP-200 mentioned previously. | |
| Best affordable XLR? For 100 ea, I would be looking at the Canare star quad or mogami Quad cables. you can buy in bulk and terminate yourself or buy already terminated. The Neutrik XLRs are pretty easy to work with. |