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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Herbie's Hal-O Tube Dampers
Post Subject: Combine damping, tube cooling and shieldingPosted by Romy the Cat on: 9/21/2007

I ordered today from them the 6C33C dumpers and spoke with someone in there. Forthrightly speaking it sounded kind of ugly when the guy on the phone insisted to call the pads as the “anti-vibration instruments”. BTW, I did ask him directly if there is any difference from sonic point of view between the new dampers and old.  He said that there is not, though frankly he did not sound intelligent and it was very apparent that he pulled phrases out of his ass. So, I did not ask him about his “upgrade program”.

That all shell not defeat the idea of the tube dumpers. I do feel that the tube dumping effect would greatly depend from the construction of a specific tube, the tube made, the given tube sockets, chasses design the state of the given tube. In different cases it might work differently and I do not know if to change of the tube resonance is the only factor in the play. Only God knows what works and why in those circumstances...

Sure, I am not apologetic that I have those dumpsters in fact I have some others. In fact my very first Hal-O-like dampers I bought in 2000 in Tokyo, which was 1-2 years before the Hal-O come to existence. They were virtually identical….

If would be nice if someone would combine glass damping, the tube cooling and shielding.

The Cat

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