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    Full Music tubes any good

    in Talkin' Tubes

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    On 6/5/2019 at 4:35 AM, Tube Hawk 6AQ5 said:

    Buy a set of JJ2A3-40 when they have a sale on AES and be done with it.

     

    World class SE tube amplifier builders use this tube so why not you?

     

    TH 6AQ5

     

     

     

    "world class amp builders" like an irrigation installer from Montana and a hobbyist for Kansas City ?  LOL

    Black Lacquer application

    in Technical/Restorations

    Posted

    On 3/28/2019 at 4:47 PM, Rudy81 said:

    Question for you cabinet experts.  When I visited the Hope plant during a Klipsch pilgrimage, I noticed the folks painting the plywood cabs with black lacquer just sprayed the lacquer and the cabinets were done after the lacquer application. Nice smooth finish.  They went from raw to smooth finish in one step.

     

    I am working on some baltic birch cabinets and have experienced the grain raising on baltic birch when spraying lacquer....thus requiring a sanding step before I get a nice finish.

     

    Does anyone know what must be done to prevent the plywood grain from raising like that?

     

    the attached method is for musical instruments but is the best method (IMO) for any lacquer finish.. a lot of work but durable and beautiful... I've done this to acoustic guitars, cajons and my speaker cabinets... the speaker front in baltic birch with a "fender sunburst" lacquer finish using mahogany brown, amber yellow and cherry red... 

     

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    Are Your Capacitors Installed Backwards ??

    in Technical/Restorations

    Posted

    Medwin is is the master of hurling veiled insults at anyone and everyone who does not agree with his nonsense.. the following are from just one post...

     

    "It is common knowledge that film caps sound different ( in a GOOD system ) depending upon their orientation. Any good audiophile knows this. " Medwin says... see you are all not a "good audiophile"

     

    then there are the direct insults...

     

    "If Dean wants to be "for hire", charge people to make crossovers, and be oblivious to this, AND use tie wraps around film cap bodies to disturb their fields, be my guest in having that to listen through that.  You obtain what you deserve.  But there IS a better way"

     

    not sure how many customers Dean or BEC or ALK have, or those who have DIY xo's like them but this one goes for all of you...

     

    What I post herein, honestly,  WORKS on my system,.  Your use and reliance  of " logic, science & mathematical facts " leads you to mediocre results for audio playback in your home.  If you can't see it, or won't accept my reports at face value, there is no way I can help you !!"

    as 99.9% of people will NOT follow his absurdity, he states emphatically to all we have mediocre audio systems...

    this moron does not go away.. he is like gum or dog crap on your shoe...

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    Are Your Capacitors Installed Backwards ??

    in Technical/Restorations

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, Dave A said:

    There was another one who would always tell tall tales rather than the truth and had to embellish everything with impossible claims only he never grew out of it. Always striving to get attention no matter the cost and the more you argued or ignored him the wilder the claims became. Who would that be perchance?  You are pure bovine powered troll at it's best with scant snippets of reality here and there.

     

    well put... I warned you about this guy...

    ignore him... don't reply to him... and hopefully he will just go away and no longer post on this forum....

    New extreme-slope crossover requiring NO Zobel

    in Technical/Restorations

    Posted

    18 hours ago, mark1101 said:

    If you want the ESNs to work as designed then you will need to use a K33 woofer or a clone that has the same or very close parameters.  I think this is pretty important.  But AL will let you know.

     

    thats not true... 

     

    2 hours ago, Tizman said:

    I called Al, and he said that the crossover should work fine for my application.  

     

    as the ESN networks (ES 400, ES 500 and even the Universal ) would be with many other components also...

     

    2 hours ago, Tizman said:

     He was very helpful, despite not knowing me from Adam and having nothing to gain from it.  Thanks Al!   

     

    not surprised.. ALK is a good guy, very smart and I have found him to be very helpful...

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    ***SOLD*** MHDT Havana NOS DAC ***upgraded*** $900

    in Garage Sale

    Posted

    MHDT Havana NOS DAC... upgraded beyond measure... takes a decent DAC to a whole new level...$900 shipped... 

     

    R-Core power supply

    (8) Fairchild hyper fast diodes

    HiFI-Tuning Gold fuse

    (4) Elna 3300 uF capacitors (were 2200 uF)

    (23) Elna Silmic II capacitors (replacing various Nichicon and Panasonic)

    (5) Hovland 0.1 uF film capacitors

    (2) RelCap TFT 0.1 uF bypass capacitors

    (4) VCap CUTF capacitors... 0.1 uF input, .22 uF coupling

    (2) Jupiter HT 2.2 uF output capacitors

    (6) Tantalum resistors around the tube buffer

     

    new cones footers

    Coax, Toslink and USB input

    (3) tubes RCA, GE jan and a Russian equivalent

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    B/D Oris 150 horns SOLD

    in Garage Sale

    Posted

    shim the voice coil and try and keep the old surround pieces from falling in as you remove it.. acetone and some small hobby paint brush to apply to remove the old adhesive..

    work a little bit at a time to get it all off the frame and the cone... get some good surround adhesive.. the videos below show how its done...

     

     

     

    WTB: Oris Horn

    in Garage Sale

    Posted

    12 hours ago, joessportster said:

    Where did you get original lowther surrounds ?  Was that when Jon Ver Hoven  was still running lowther america ?

     

    hi Joe... from a guy in CA years ago... yes Jon was still the Lowther rep at the time...

    ~$90 for a set of surrounds, spider foam and another piece...

    with the removable diffusers its easy to shim the voice coil and keep alignment...

    WTB: Oris Horn

    in Garage Sale

    Posted

    16 hours ago, rplace said:

    If I win the lottery today AER drivers for all of you Oris lovers! :emotion-21: Sorry for the thread crap, figured Rudy and Joe would want in on my generosity.

     

    I have AER MD3 in my Oris horns... and also have a pair of Lowther PM2As... AER 8" drivers can use the surrounds that Lowther uses... I have replaced the surrounds on my AER drivers with them and have no issues.. there are some youtube videos that show how to do it.. take your time and its possible...

     

    Welborne Labs DRD 45 / 2A3 amps w/ SS rectification

    in Garage Sale

    Posted

    those are nice speakers...

    not sure what you mean by "push"...  I cannot speak to it as I have no idea what your listening room is like...

    you cannot eliminate what the room size etc has with any speaker amp combo...

     

    what I can address is my speakers are in the 106dB range (2 way with AER MD3 full range with GPA 515-8 LF woofers)..

    my room is large, 30ft x 25ft with 18ft ceiling...

    these Welborne DRD 45 can fill the room... comparing to a 2A3 tube I go a bit higher on the volume to do it...

    and again these amps can be converted to 2A3 with out much cost and work..

    thanks for your interest...

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