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[quote user="from email"] …. I have the valves etc. for the Melquiades but have not built it yet. I have begun thinking about the preamplification stage. Right now it is just purely passive. Is this not the optimal input for the Melquiades? [/quote] ...
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Yes, I agree, eliminate all connectors. They are made of terrible metal and it is like seasoning your food with a tiny bit of poison.On the subject of mixing silver and copper, I did find that multiple strands of different metals seemed to yiel...
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Interesting, at this stage it's early in your testing so I am mostly interested in how they are terminated. Can you provide a picture of how the fluid tubes are sealed and the cable terminated to RCA?
Tim...
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can this be anything else but futile?1) If analogue the first thing be the cart, if digital the payer?2) If analogue the phono cable being the MOST important one in the whole system, and could yield some noticeable improvement.3) Has the system got a...
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"Success" equals better except for added hum? How lucky is APS to have customers like this?!?Any dimmer switches within a mile and a half of the system? Any variable inductors connected anywhere in the house? Root out anything like ...
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Amir, here is a link to "the same" (same appearance, "specs" and information) SPDIF cable I got years ago (for maybe $200). It replaced the Belkin Synapse after the last round of "factory upgrades" to my iDAT DAC. Prior to those DAC "upgrades", I pr...
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It's dead. Nobody cares about sound anymore. Esp. not about passive listening. The few music lovers left there, are usually immune to their systems, and lack the knowledge to build their own. Most high end audio is a fraud anyway. I agree with Earl c...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still the key is to treat the cables, all cables that go into tuner and into the processors. Do not forget that you have a perfect loop: tuner goes to preamp, as in the same time tuner goes to A/D-DAW-D/A- preamp. So, you...
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Thanks Romy, I'll try connecting with an XLR to RCA cable. I've actually ordered a Henry Matchbox HD also because I can use it elsewhere if it doesn't help in this particular case. In any event, I'm hoping to share some thoughts on the Model 2's ...
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2007-03-23
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Romy,That's true that this resistor have negative impact on sound quality. You can run your 6E5P without it as long as you do not get parazitic oscillation.Just connect screen grid and plate electrodes right on tube socket, using shortest possible ca...
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Apologies for DIY flavour, but what, I wonder, do people make of the following technique for damping relatively thin-walled large horns, in pseudocode...For horn length x = at throat to at mouth Take a length of y mm diameter braided cable sleevi...
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...Why not also try a paralleled "solid-core" (single wire per leg) cable. You can twist the paralleled wires if you wish. Proceed carefully, using about 1-1 ½" between the wires. Try silver on the return first...Just as an experiment; as you note, y...
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[quote user="cb"] Also i stick a 30k resistor in R3 and the results are very good. [/quote]R3 is Milq’s loading resistor and it hardly to do anything with amp itself. Milq has own input loading is floating on the bias chains and it has a ...
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J, I hope you know by now that I really don't care about anything audio but my own results, except that I actually like sharing about this a little. Very specifically, I have absolutely no interest in trying to convince anyone of anything audio.I di...
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Adrian, no luck in finding it. It the cable thread it is not.
I've shown your post to an Australian fellow Martin who knows, among 1000 other things, a big deal about welding so he might have ideas how to weld different metals incl. tungsten....
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That's excellent!I once was called to a friend's house to assess the sonic effects of a room DSP he was auditioning. I brought Kwame, my most trusted ears, along. Indeed Jack had a difficult-looking room. So we sat down to listen to some music with t...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]Attentuators plugged directly into the RCA jacks sounds like good solution for balance control[/quote]Do not forget that you do not need the attenuators but juts one attenuator that you would plug on right OR on left. Also,...
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Thanks Dave. Sounds like you have indeed bitten off a lot to chew on. At this point you might be describing cable swaps, etc. I hope you will share again when you are more comfortable with your set-up, since - for all the sharing - no one but Romy...
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If you are interested in the technical aspect of the effects that different D/AC (no-oversampling, no reconstruction filter) and cable (USB, S/PDIF, Toslink) topologies have on signals I recommend you have a look here:
http://archimago.blogspot.com...
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The station that I most listen to is 105.9 MHz that broadcasts from one location 50 miles away at 100kW power and that is detected by 2 FM aerials mounted as a parallel array with rotator and ~ 40 feet of coaxial cable to the TU-X1. T...
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Hi Romy[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
... I decided to listen my native feline instincts and go with them. So, decided to buy a Lavry’s Gold AD122. ....Now, the biggest problem remains what digital I/O PC interface to use after the Lavry’s digital...
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Last week I sent my DAW’s DAC cable for refueling. The FM programs are slow – the concert season starts in a couple of weeks and everyone are resting now. So, I am spinning some records that made me to pay attention to the status of my analog. What I...
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Mani, the neutral wire is meant to be "the" system ground, with zero potential, so it should not have any "input". It is known, however, that many factors conspire to contaminate ground wires (including the neutral wire) with electrical noises, and ...
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[quote user="miab"]Adrian, can you confirm whether you were using cable with shielding or without? Like you I had the buzzing go away when on battery or without PP2000 in system. It became dead silent. Then with PP2000 back in system there was buzzin...
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"Jim Hagerman that is posting at this site has an absolutely ridicules devise...The
ridicules in this devise its amassing effectiveness and absolutely
insulting price. In fact over my entire audio life I hardly had so many
benefits for $50 I spent...
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[quote user="floobydust"] On a second note, you can also modify this for both adjustable AC and DC balance on seperate potentiometers. Both potentiometers would be in parallel with the filament (and padded) but you use the wipers independantly, ...
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[quote user="drdna"]I am sadly missing the living presence in my system, and I thought from your description, that the Melquiades might be a solution [/quote]
I think this requires me to raise my voice as I feel that this presumption is very common ...
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Romy, you referred us to the Horlick website. May we assume you have not gone and bought a "small" 30 HP Horlick unit? Sure, something like that might put out a "perfect", smooth, clean, full, suitable-for-hi-fi wave at 60 Hz under load, but yo...
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Romy, as you know by now, most small generators are toys, really not suitable for our purposes. I have no idea where or how you found the perfect old small generator, but starting with what you have, if you can get all the wiring right, you just mig...
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Paul, I've taken the pains to redo all the connections I could. Washing Deoxit away was a horror. I polished everything I could polish with a jewellery green polishing paste on a polishing cloth, and flushed the remainings with isopropanol.I then use...
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