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Lamm uses Russian ceramic sockets, at least use to use them 10 yeas back. What he uses not I have no idea. The material of sockets is not as important – the profile of contact is the key. Unfortunately Russian sockets use triangular contact that make...
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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 arrives and becomes mobil...
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[quote user="gordan"] plus they IMHO sound better - less prejudiced towards a romantic SET sound we all know (and some try to avoid).[/quote] Yes, Gordan, it is exactly what I heard about the 10s from the sources that I found rational. The huge plate...
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It is not the subject that I closely observe at this point but I have to tell you that paling with my new MF amp I do develop some linking to Chinese Shuguang tubes. They are pretty good and for $75 per pair new they are surprisingly good. I am not f...
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Having listened for a while with the tubes, I have come to some conclusions. The three tubes I have seriously listened to are: Kron, Sophia, and Emission Labs. All the tubes are much better than any other modern 2A3 tubes I have tried. I felt my in...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I was listing it and I did not really like what I heard. It was all together juts some kind of “Ordinary Sound”. I recognize that I say “I do not like sound” but I can’t say anything more spastic. All of the sound that I ge...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Are any of those new tubes besides the Chinese tubes are single plated?[/quote]I believe they are all single plated.
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have bought some very nice 2A3 and 6A3 double plated from 1942 and 1944 an...
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It is 300B but I do not think that there is any difference.
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/1201/300b/
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/channel/ch300b/
The Cat...
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JJ,
yes, I got Hal-O dampers a few years ago and I do use them but it would require more say then just “I use” them.
I have them for a long time. I initially bought then to use with 7788 tubes that I am employing as an input tubes in my phonocorr...
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N-set, I just only heard that exists somewhere the STV-series regulators but I never seen them, even the datasheets and it is a big surprise to me that they are available and “not expensive” Would you point a source where it might be? If a 150m...
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[quote user="cv"] Consider a triode connected 13E1. 95W dissipation, will probably work beautifully with the existing OPT if you adjust the gap down and if you can rewire your arrays to present a somewhat higher impedance.Something like 400V-450V / 2...
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Last weekend, just for fun, I brought the amp and preamp to the 2011 Burning Amp in San Francisco. On the first speakers, the Audio Kinesis, I let the heater warmup for about 15 min, and then switched on the power, the amp was fine, we played...
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decoud, as I have mentioned before, over the years I've always gotten about 25% bad ones of tubes from all sources, including those that were supposed to be hand picked, triple-tested, high-spec, precision-matched tubes that (of course) cost extra fo...
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[quote user="shannon"] Only less than 9ma before.
Now over 22ma nice glow, to bright maybe. voltage drift gone.
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I think you might have closer to 5mA before. I did see that with low load I had voltage
drift. Interesting is that th...
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I am still waiting for a (single stage) tube that can make full range Music via speakers. I mean, this is the real issue, isn't it? Sure a good tube will pass a "full range signal" through the right transformer; but where is the tube that will do t...
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Why do we even bother with tubes for low levels? Of tubes generally, I have used 6SN7s, 2A3s and EL34s with no known-to-me problems, but lots of various noise trouble with certain tubes, including 6DJ8 family, KT88s, and on and o...
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That 8233 might do it. Also noticed the 6CL6 in triode mode will get you almost there, but only a mu of 20. The 6688 could be a substitute.jh...
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are you asking if i like higher impedance tubes with my drivers i have always love the sound of imac tubes round plate triodes !!! i change amps alot right now i im running 75tl amp for highs and a 300B for bass drivers . i hope this answers your q...
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[quote user="muddasir"]Thanks paul for well thought reply. Two things need clarifiication, i am not new to the subject and am a constant and avid reader.Secondly my preference for music is hobby for electronics and pleasure of listening through appli...
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Yes, each piece of gear would seem to require its own unit. But they probably deliver enough juice for a tubed preamp or the like.clark
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The 112's on my amplifier were made in 1926. I think they sound good but I actually chose them because I wanted low gain. Regardless of that there is a certain different pleasure to be gained from playing modern recordings using tubes made over 80 y...
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Who know how they die, at least I was not able to figure it out. The literature suggest that when gas regulator at the end of their life they stop regulate or maintain regulation but increase noise. I was not able to detect it.
I have many gas regu...
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Thanks, I have seen those sockets they might be fine but they do not decupling from chasses and they are not soft. I was thinking about something that has spring effect. Pearls sockets for instance has a soft rubber decupling between base and the pin...
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Actually, Romy, it is simply that the tubes that came with the amp were not "good" in the sense that they were not doing their jobs. Period. You may remember the pulses through the speakers and how new input tubes cured the problem? ...
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Actually I was wondering what the hell you were talking about what you were bitching that the ML2 socket can not handle 6N6P first. Ether you changed over 10.000 tubes in there or something else was wrong because the ML2 sockets are fine (except the ...
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[quote user="dazzdax"] Sakuma's idiosyncratic and esoteric way of thinking (he believes for example that tubes have a "soul") is not to everyone's liking. He is projecting his mind into a sort of tone control. At least for him this tone control bring...
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[quote user="hagtech"]Yes, it is an E55L. I wonder how stable it is. Interesting to me how many of these "uber-tubes" are designed for RF operation. Should make a wonderful oscillator. [/quote]
Go figure not stable are they. ...
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Rooting around for manufacturers' operating curve/info on 6922s I came across a short paper I got years ago from electronics genius Roger A. Modjeski. In a nutshell, RM talked about internal variables in tubes that affect their electrical charac...
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[quote user="AlexBerger"]Hello Romy,
What brand of 0A2 do you use in your phonostage?I used RCA, but after 1.5 years of work it began to spark when phonostage is switched on.I tried Siemens, Mazda and now Sylvania 0A2.Siemens has "disco sound"...
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I have no idea where this saga with REL leads me. Even though I do have substantial sonic improvement over the original REL version I still do not know if I like this tuner all together. The 50 years all tube tuner with 17 tubes is very freaky thing....
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