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This is something I've been chewing on for quite some time and finally decidedto make it happen: a serious Stax headphone amplifier.I hope I can use this space as a sort of a blog-report on the progress...if not feel free to remove. I've been "forced...
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Yes, I've heard this theory too that paralelling caps lowers the esr/esl => better rise time.No idea if it's true or only an excuse for not using big, hard to get and expensive single caps.PSA quote from arandom physicsforums thread:"In the genera...
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At those small values mouser, didgikey etc should be ok, no?Any reasoning behind such a approach aprt fro aviability?Also ROmy has sunstancial capacitance at 15000u etc, do youuse 30 caps in a bank?...
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[quote user="decoud"]Looking for a reliable one myself: a capacitor just failed. Similarly for Electrocube 950s which are obscenely priced in low quantities direct, and not on the ground this part of the world. [/quote]Really? Did you form it before...
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Decoud (and others), where do you source big Nichicon caps, pref. in EU?I'm slowly preparing to attack a Staxquiades - a mastodont Milq inspiredamp to power Stax headphones (PP 6E5 DC to PP 2A3/300B/EL34). I need 10.000uF/500V and 10.000/350V caps.Mo...
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These are all soft scenarios, where only an audio eq. is hurt...I'm quite convinced that kids have an absolutely phenomenal and perfectly calibratedsort of a radar which unmisteakably catches the things that we care aboutand directs the kid straight ...
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[quote user="JJ Triode"]Putting the Pure Power in the basement might be fine, but I don't think you need to banish the Melqs down there, at least not yet.You don't know yet if there will be kids, and if so it will still be a couple years before one a...
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As for the EAR834 Air itself, while calibrating I've noticed I always get a a delicate MF recess, no matter what I do:(neverming the HF roll-off--it's my cheap card, I'll scan it with SG505-HP400FL when I mount them)Can it be that this slight recess ...
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All my (so far not so long) professional life I've been a scientist (on a theory side rather than experiment)and I've noticed an interesting analogy between my scientific and audio (in a narrow sense below) activity.Scientist in the modern world must...
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There is absolutely no judgement on my side if you read carefully. Omnigone can be a stellar performer, as well as TKD custom switches which you can have only if you suck the dick of the owner, and it affects me as much as an alien fart on andromeda....
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[quote user="Stitch"]TKD has also high quality Parts which are not listed in the catalogue. I heard, some personal contact can be helpful to get their best units. They will be built on custom order only, in batches, when they made it, it is done. Pri...
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So I ordered a Shallco switch from Nebraska:http://www.surplussales.com/Switches/SWRotaryAll-1.htmlAccording to some gurus at diyaudio.com endless Blowjob preamp thread,it seems to be the best human invetion after sliced bread.Let's see. If it's audi...
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The Stitch/Syntax showing-off Bavarian inhabitant is to be blamed for this monster radar rocket 100% in-law-with-physics sumo something.Me is only fighting with my Pussy EAR834...only 16kg so, I'm a small boy :)Very to-the-point remark regarding "vis...
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So you showed off with your rocket radar something called Omni Gone here:http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?6068-Omni-Gon-The-Final-PhonostageWhat caught my attention is the switching of the phono inputs (since there are multi SUT'son board...
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After dealing with a few individuals trying to sell me a FR-7, I've decided to kiss goodbye to this idea and look into the direction which has actually been considered at this site: Decca Jubilee. From several sources the the signals are that this m...
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Yes, they pop up here & there but that's not the point. The point is what's they are worth after 30+ yrs,and if they'd hypothetically work in my situation of 3012R.Some people compare them to modern ZYX carts UNIverse and Airy(I've got one such a...
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why you feel you should show off with your equipment and it's price tags (on a-gone) rather than results, but that's your choice. It's a thread about FR7 and the funny thing is that in your show-off list above you do not mention it.Since you know the...
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[quote user="Markus"] N-set wrote:There seem to be a Bavarian mafia Stitch is very much a part of that, of course.[/quote]Yes, I know. He is Syntax on audio-gone and by chance, when FR-7 surfaced in one of a threads, he's trying to sell one fz for a ...
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Continuing my crawling in the sea of cartridge excrements, there is this Lumiere DST, inspired by Neumann DST-62 and highly praised by Stefano.Difficult to get any reasonable info (at least some basic raw data), apart from apparent sample-to-sample h...
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I think the same Stitch has been bitching on the broadcast TSD's. Why test pressing analysis carts should be better than broadcasting?Anyway, I do not insist Paul, I've just asked. Indeed, looking into the modern Ikeda there seem to be something...at...
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This is the point, Paul: is it a self-propelled, self-ass-licking FR7 club or does this cart has any merit?Old vs. new, new vs. old...in the world of planned obsolescnce I do not know how to navigate.There is a myriad of models, but what they are wor...
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which is troublesome...They claim the suspension is sealed so the rubber do not corrode.There is also someone who pressure fits new styluses. ...
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At a risk of being severely bashed...I came across this old cart. There seem to be a Bavarian mafia promoting it on audio-gone.."transparent, neutral, indestructible...blah blah blah" I'm wondering if despite being a fetish of the mentioned club, th...
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I think there is quite some analogy between this:http://www.coconut-audio.com/liquid/index.htmland a big majority of the audio-industry "efforts"....I'm wondering if placing a piece of Christiano Ronaldo's shit on my equipment would give itmore punc...
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40W max plate power diss. is not impressive and for sure a joke for a serious high-power set.I remember doing some intellectual excersise/pspice sims of a DC coupled GU81M.Much more serious tube and IIRC on the sims it looked promising. Search the si...
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Out of 6 languages that I speak German has been for me the most difficult to learn(i inherited 3 slavic languages, otherwise they, or at least Russian, would occupy the top). Spanish, at least basic, is a child play.I spent 3.5yrs in the capital of H...
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[quote user="Paul S"]N-set, at the socket is usually the best place for tube-specific parts, and straight undernerath the socket is often the quietest at-the-tube location. [/quote]Yes, this is my exp. too, although loading R has two roles here: 1) ...
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Ok, Paul, this is the info that I needed, thank you!My Hagtech anti-RIAA has 50R output imp. at -60dB output for MC.Unfortunately my load resistors are soldered and in a very painful place,(for some reason the circuit did not accper the loading R at ...
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I'm precisely fighting with dialing-in the RIAA....I tried to follow (parts of) Romy's description earlier in the thread, but the anti-RIAA method and test LP give me a huge difference, much bigger than 0.2dB (rather 10dB or so):what was +/- flat usi...
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Paul, with my semi-nomadic life I don't have much chance to work on what I want to work on...The grounding etc I have +/- understood. What now is beyond me is cart-phono interaction and calibration.How do you calibrate your phono? Cheers,n-set...
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