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As I moved out last summer my wife happily threw out some of my stuff, including pair of Stevens & Billington transformers. Where can I get another pair at a decent price (used maybe)? Also, I heard there is a silver option available - is it worth it...
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Jeeze, I just mention G10 and every machinist out there wants my head delivered to them on a silver platter! Diamond tooling does help but I'll have to ask the guys I know with waterjet cutters if they have had any problems with it. ...
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National is the brand name of Richardson Electronics http://www.rell.com/They buy and have bought tubes from factories all over the world and rebranded them 'National'When I worked for a UK based tube amp manufacturer some 10 years ...
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Since I know about a few ongoing attempts out there by different people to build Melquiades I would like to share with some of my observations regarding corrections, simplification and possible modifications of Melquiades amplifier.
Obviously you ha...
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nearly there....add a peacock feather; a sword -- not mounted on the wall but casually in an umbrella stand beside some old walking sticks; a pair of small stone animals of some kind, ideally lions, in front of the fireplace; a head or a bust in bron...
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I think it has already been stated. Batteries in audio are inherently of limited utility. It is a tendency of audiophiles to dedicate themselves to a single "silver bullet" instead of building the system based on the particular needs and compromises ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not remember that “recommended” APS. I do insist that it is the only devise If does what I want a power devise to do with sound. Is it as recommendation or motivation to buy for others? [/quote]Actually, Romy specific...
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Bumping up this very old thread but I bought a Yamaha T-2 in October via that well-known auction site here in the UK. Even through my humble system I can tell it is a cut above all previous tuners I have heard. Admittedly I have never had anything re...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Plenty of people I know hoarded the old, cheap-o Radio Shack connectors, figuring their light weight more than offset the crappy metal they're made of.[/quote]Yes, I'm one of them! I love those Radio Shack connectors. It's easy t...
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Certainly the synergy users can only, at best, mask one coloration with another, but in the minds of their audience they encourage a belief that the errors somehow get cancelled; that is the "notion" I referred to.
These notions extend into the do...
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Do you use input 50KOhm Z-foil resistor between input tube greed and GND?Does Z-foil sound colder compared to Dale RN60D?U used Dale before. Now I use Shinkoh tantalum resistor. It has similar to Dale tonal balance but sounds smoother.I heard a lot o...
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[quote user="Stitch"]here:http://www.partsconnexion.com/connectors_rca_goertz.html[/quote]Thanks Stitch. I cann't speak of sonics but visualy it looks like in the title--a classical high massRCA design from the 40's (or 30's ?)...only done in silver ...
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Paul,I haven't done much audio in the past 1,5 year. The main reason is a war in my motherland which got me pretty out of balance,but I'm coming slowly back. To try the Fr7, I made a slate/lead tower for the SME3012 caring it. Now I need to convince...
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There is an article where Likhnitsky explains what he was trying to accomplish with the tonearm. It is in Russian but there is an image there that presents the concept. The entire silver ball moves along with the arm’s wand. Inside the ball is swimmi...
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The "reason" for the copper foil and Teflon film caps is to offer for sale the penultimate fantasy cap, with silver foil and Teflon film being the "ultimate" intellectual destination at this point and the obvious next move "up", if this copper batch ...
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Here is the general specification for the parts that I used. The selection of the parts implies some liberty of course. It will be your amp after all, not mine - do whatever you wish. In some case when I feel that requirement is critical I will stres...
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Bud, you may have read some of my babblings about stacking ground planes and stray current attaching/backing up all over the place; it's a personal fetish. Not to mention the fact that getting the ground "stacked" correctly is almost impos...
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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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T,Agreed on the mumetal - it's wonderful stuff for transformers, just wish you could get it in the required core size for big outputs (well, maybe the US DoD can). Heavens know why AC spend a fortune on silver on an iron core.RE: the Slagle autoforme...
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When I have heard the K-horns, they sound kind of soft and warm, making pleasant "old fashioned" vacuum tubey sounds. I am just guessing here, but the Beyma speakers have a very forward punchy sound much liked in professional monitors and car a...
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Chris,
My frustrations with HF of this amp reminds me the Agatha Christie novels…. however, like anything else it has an end, even a temporarily end….After some experiments and still being dissatisfied with the HF I ended up consulting with D...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Meanwhile: If you are going to use a SUT, this actually is a Big Deal that will profoundly affect the Sound you get from your system, regardless of which connectors or solder you use. I recommend you integrate the SUT (with its ...
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I'm wondering if anyone used the industrial standard 2RM-type of connectors for a DIY Lo MC phono connection?http://www.trimmer.ru/?target=61&nom=20251The smallest is 2RM14 with 4 pins, 1mm dia so pretty low mass--no big diameter jump along the p...
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Every crowd has a silver lining...PT. Barnum said this over a century ago. Another phrase coined by the man...Without promotion something terrible happens, Nothing.Barnum knew human nature well and he laught all the way to the bank.These phrases not ...
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It has been 1 year since I started working with the ML2s with all new tubes installed. The ML2s have been, by far, the biggest step I have taken in hi-fi in 45 years, and the "upgrades" I have done since the ML2s have necessarily been in a...
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The "mains ground" is not necessarily worth a crap, electrically; it is just whatever ground system happens to be attached to the main service shared neutral/ground bus. In fact, some older systems may yet use the dreaded "floating" ground. I have ...
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Romy,Try wrapping a copper wire around a power cable, then "inject" it into the power line through an isolation transformer. The wrapping only to help defeat the antenna event of other signal sources that only have one vector.et all,For cables, the m...
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Fi-analy started listening the FR combo! The setup is somewhat haphazard:* P2S unknown - trying to get 231.5mm recommended by the Germans, took the pains and the cost to design and make a special collar but missing a laser engraved protractor to see ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Brian, and how do you find your MOSFET behaves compare the 12AX7-based cathode follower?[/quote]Romy, I have yet to try. Only got them on recommendation very recently. They're cheap enough to try in a B9A plug-in without al...
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Functionally, these are the same caps I already replaced once/twice (and wrote about) before, namely the big "parafeed" couplers. The unit came with bypassed 4 uF Kimbers, which were fuzzy and slow, so I replaced them with 3.3 uF Mundorf Silver...
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