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KLapinas
KLapinas Posts: 608
edited April 2013 in Electronics
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
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    click.

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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited February 2013
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    Speakers: SDA-1C (most all the goodies)
    Preamp: Joule Electra LA-150 MKII SE
    Amp: Wright WPA 50-50 EAT KT88s
    Analog: Marantz TT-15S1 MBS Glider SL| Wright WPP100C Amperex BB 6er5 and 7316 & WPM-100 SUT
    Digital: Mac mini 2.3GHz dual-core i5 8g RAM 1.5 TB HDD Music Server Amarra (memory play) - USB - W4S DAC 2
    Cables: Mits S3 IC and Spk cables| PS Audio PCs
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited February 2013
    Great thread idea, I hope this just turns into a great tube **** gallery
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,289
    edited February 2013
    Melody
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    2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
    Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
    Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
    Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC

    erat interfectorem cesar et **** dictatorem dicere a
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,428
    edited February 2013
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    Jay
    SDA 2BTL * Musical Fidelity A5cr amp * Oppo BDP-93 * Modded Adcom GDA-600 DAC * Rythmik F8 (x2)
    Micro Seiki DQ-50 * Hagerman Cornet 2 Phono * A hodgepodge of cabling * Belkin PF60
    Preamp rotation: Krell KSL (SCompRacer recapped) * Manley Shrimp * PS Audio 5.0
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited February 2013
    That Manley is kewl looking Jay! Enjoying it?


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    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited February 2013
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    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,428
    edited February 2013
    SCompRacer wrote: »
    That Manley is kewl looking Jay! Enjoying it?


    Enjoying it as I type! Spinning Alison Krauss Paper Airplane. It's really been a nice addition for me.
    Jay
    SDA 2BTL * Musical Fidelity A5cr amp * Oppo BDP-93 * Modded Adcom GDA-600 DAC * Rythmik F8 (x2)
    Micro Seiki DQ-50 * Hagerman Cornet 2 Phono * A hodgepodge of cabling * Belkin PF60
    Preamp rotation: Krell KSL (SCompRacer recapped) * Manley Shrimp * PS Audio 5.0
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited February 2013
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    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited February 2013
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    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
    just 'cause it gots tubes don't mean it gots to be pretty...


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    (it just gots to sound pretty)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
    ... as I said above... :-)

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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited February 2013
    Ooooops !!!!!!
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    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • shadowlight
    shadowlight Posts: 327
    edited February 2013
    Response Audio 3205 Extreme
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
    the oops photo is great (if a tad sad - I hope it's a "brand X" Chinese tube or an ancient TV tube "plinker")!

    BTW, I love this game...

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited February 2013
    You guys are really making me have to look away before I pull out my wallet and do something stupid :biggrin:
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited February 2013
    I was amazed at what McAlister did with old TV tubes in his amps. Crude DIY look, every one different in some way...:cheesygrin:


    Failure to backup before a hard drive crash lost close up pics of these TAD's.

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    An artsy type pic of tubes when I was more creative......

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    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
    So... a couple of posts above I showed an EICO ST-70 -- the other ST-70 :-)

    Here's its little sibling, the ST-40. Different driver topology and bias scheme, smaller output transformers and lower power; the economy version.

    EndersShadow, as you probably know, the wallet was minimally impacted by this guy - I found it on the scrap metal pile at the town dump, exactly as you see it in the first photo below (with its top removed). As Pasteur observed, "Chance favors the prepared mind".

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    Gary Kaufman kindly rehabbed both the ST-70 and the ST-40 for me last year. This ST-40 is currently my daily driver in MA as we transition from our long-time house to a new one...

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
    This one's not mine... but someday I hope to own one. I had the honor of rehabbing this one and it is one of my very favorite-est ever amps in terms of sound quality. Beautifully built, too...

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    (and for the record, I was asked to install those Illinois "Lemon Drop" caps in it - it sounds great just as you see it, even without a single boutique component nor high-zoot output tubes in it)
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited February 2013
    ^one of these days I will get around to hitting you up for something tubed lol. Your vintage collection rivals most folks I know :biggrin:...
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
    only in number, not quality :-P
    (but thanks for the sentiment)

    heh, here's one of my very few (to date) DIY efforts:
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    The design is from http://www.pmillett.com/hybrid_head.htm

    oh, and despite my lousy skills as a photographer, my son's got mad photo skilz :-) The earlier photo I posted of a Decware SE-84B "Zen" amp in the dark is his. Here are a few more of his (apologies to all of you who've seen these many times before). Check out his photoblog if you like photography, lenses, and cameras - all formats, film and digital. http://icouldbeahero.blogspot.com

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    EDIT - Baltimorons of a certain age may recognize his blog's namesake as a lyric from a truly wonderful song from Crack the Sky's eponymous debut album :-)

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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited February 2013
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    .....

    (and for the record, I was asked to install those Illinois "Lemon Drop" caps in it ....

    Don't you mean Illinoise? :cheesygrin: Once upon a time I had it spelled like that in my sig, cause around Chicago it's hectic and all noise.. Southern IL being much quieter, slower pace. Some folks would even PM me asking "Don't you know how to spell Illinois?":biggrin:
    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited February 2013
    Thanks for the idea. May have to look into that DIY project... I would source someone else to build it lol...
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
    Kis or semi-kits (i.e., something based on a PC board or someone else's design/layout) are the easiest way to go and can be very rewarding.

    Think about a Bottlehead "Crack" headphone amp or even their crazy-cheap and enticingly cute "Quickie" battery-powered tube preamp www.bottlehead.com

    You can build it! :-)

    EDIT: Here's the underside of a Bottlehead "Seduction" vacuum tube phono preamp/EQ (2 x 6922 twin triodes doin' the heavy liftin'):

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited February 2013
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Kis or semi-kits (i.e., something based on a PC board or someone else's design/layout) are the easiest way to go and can be very rewarding.

    Think about a Bottlehead "Crack" headphone amp or even their crazy-cheap and enticingly cute "Quickie" battery-powered tube preamp www.bottlehead.com

    You can build it! :-)

    Yeah, I know about hte bottlehead stuff, but see the issue is my OCD about cable management/wiring would be the death of me on a project like that. So I would prefer to outsource it to a couple people I know that have those kinda skills so it looks right purdy :biggrin:

    P.S. did you see my thread about the Bugle 2 phono pre that is on kickstart?
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,806
    edited February 2013
    I did see such a thread somewhere - the Bugle and its vacuum tube brethren (somone posted a Cornet photo earlier in this thread) are very respectable phono preamps.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited February 2013
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I did see such a thread somewhere - the Bugle and its vacuum tube brethren (somone posted a Cornet photo earlier in this thread) are very respectable phono preamps.

    Yup, am aware. Thought about them, but found a Harman Kardon Citation Eleven pre-amp for not too much more and I know thats a pretty respected piece of gear :smile:
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • Leftplumma
    Leftplumma Posts: 88
    edited February 2013
    Heres a few of my Haf-breeds.
    They were upgraded to tubes by George Kay back in the 90s.
    I have an issue with one but George is willing to look at/ repair it.
    Not as purdy as the stuff you guys are putting up, but tube nonetheless.:cheesygrin:
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    Polk SDA 1.2 TL
    Infinity SSW-210
    Integra DTR 7.1
    Pioneer SC-57 Elite
    Sony X777ES
    Sansui BA-5000
    Hafler XL 600's in mono w/ George Kay Audio Tube upgrades
    Hafler xl 600 stock
    Krell FPB 600
    Avel 1000VA Dreadnought
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited February 2013
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    Speakers: SDA-1C (most all the goodies)
    Preamp: Joule Electra LA-150 MKII SE
    Amp: Wright WPA 50-50 EAT KT88s
    Analog: Marantz TT-15S1 MBS Glider SL| Wright WPP100C Amperex BB 6er5 and 7316 & WPM-100 SUT
    Digital: Mac mini 2.3GHz dual-core i5 8g RAM 1.5 TB HDD Music Server Amarra (memory play) - USB - W4S DAC 2
    Cables: Mits S3 IC and Spk cables| PS Audio PCs
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