Recent content by fzman

Here's to the hub-bub you've in the club!

Pondering selling mine. just don't use them much recently

Forgot to update this -- I ended up buying and returning a Dell 32 or 34" (can't rememebr which - good monitor, but not quite big enough (my work PC has an older aspect ration, which is like the proverbial square peg in the rectangualr hole of split-screening... Ended up with a mildly curved LG...

We can form a fan club - called the blue dots? Don't know if it'll catch on, or just be a 'flash' in the pan

Thanks, Tom. Still trying to get the lay of the tube land, as much as possible.... Luckily the amp sounds great. Period! None of the tubes I've tried sounded bad, and the differences are small but important. That siad, since I was on a roll with the VT-231 and putting these Heddphones thru...

Having not done any tube rolling for a while, i just swapped out a 1950's Sylvania 6SN7 for a Sylvanis VT-231 with the annchor logo on the base, opposite the side with the designation on it. It 'sounds louder' than the non- Mil spec tube. I know that 'sounds louder' is vague and subjective...

The signall flow is turntable, phono preamp, line stage preamp, Studio Six. The phono pre and line stage are home-built by me, from schematics provided by a friend. The system sounds great, and plays 'loudly enough'. I was not asking to change tube-types or ater internal components in the...

@TomSix I have a few questions about the tech specs of the 'Six'. I am using some 42 R, 87dB/mw cans, and a phono preamp with low-ish gain (not sure the exact spec-- I built it, and have not measured). On LPs cut at somewhat low levels, I can turn the volume control all the way up, and want a...

Congrats!

been playing vinyl lately: vintage H-K T25 table, AT VM740ML cart, phono preamp I built from scratch (discrete FETs, into the Six. Sublime. Been comparing carts lately on this rig (found some after-market "headshells" for the arm). Also have Ortofon 2M brinze (lots of hours on it), vintage used...

I've been told that the direction, as in which end of the fuse goes in first can matter, as it does with cabling (claims are similar, have not really done much verification myself.... Your version is a new 'twist' to me

Angle, or direction?

Tom, I was quite surprised by the changes/ikmprovements made. I've used "audiophile fuses" in the past, and heard, at best, small changes. These fuses simply pushed all of the right buttons for me. I read almost nothing about their design or construction, and have not looked at any of their...

I think the cabling and fuses are not to compensate for poorly designed gear, but to support and supplement already well-designed and made stuff. IOW, a wonderfully over-built, high performance suspension in a car is supplemented by an excellent roadway. In addition, it's not just fuses, per...

I don;t know about the mattresses, but the purple fuses are the real deal. They seem to strip away a layer of something between me and the music, it is simply more real, present and just "there". It is a real challenge to not listen to a whole album, so I can try out a variety of genres to make...