Yeah, even with the little experience I have acquired in the last months I can definitely tell that it's a bit of a roulette as for what you get when buying tubes. Among mine I have a good portion that show defects like ringing here and there, but at least I luckily got a perfect sounding 5998 on my first purchase which I love dearly.
I envy that 5998. what's your issue? One channel or both? Was it working well then had the issue? Was everything well buttoned up when you finished it?Yeah, even with the little experience I have acquired in the last months I can definitely tell that it's a bit of a roulette as for what you get when buying tubes. Among mine I have a good portion that show defects like ringing here and there, but at least I luckily got a perfect sounding 5998 on my first purchase which I love dearly.
Now I just have to fix an issue with my Crack that has been making me despair for weeks, so that I'd actually be able to listen to my tubes.
I have a really bad noise only in the right channel. It's like an intermittent crackling. Originally I was able to interact with the noise and make it louder or quieter by wiggling the 6080 tube a little bit, but now I can't seem to do that anymore. I have tried a lot of things but haven't found the source of the problem yet.
In the shot with the two coffin resistors next to the bottom of one of the tubes, there is a red cable next to a green with a very long tail that looks like it might be touching. I'd cut off all long tails, and also use alcohol on Q tips to wipe all the solder paste away and visually inspect, then I'd do continuity tests to be sure there is no shorting. The other thing is that it look like your iron gets very hot (that nice clear silver look of the solder), have you reheated multiple times for long periods (> :10 seconds)? You may have damaged one of the discrete components. I always use heat sinks to eat up the heat when I solder to prevent that. I also use teflon sleeving on exposed discrete component leads.
Thank you so much for the input. I will definitely look into it.
With such a dedicated living room you're probably single or divorced (after executing this room)My dedicated CD/headphone setup: a Bottlehead S.E.X. amp I built (with all the upgrades) and Grado RS1x cans. The Yamaha CD-S303 is also connected to the main system with an optical cable.
and a biggg house.
That's awesome and especially doing it all single handed, hope you worked on the sound proofing to keep the wifey happy in her space tooWell we moved into this house a year and a half ago and I claimed that room from the get-go. I call it the music room but technically I think it's called a media room. It's a big house so there's also a living room and a family room that wifey can decorate any way she so chooses. As far as having a crap load of money, you're basically looking at it. I've been collecting vinyl since the late 60's when I was 12 years old and have some very valuable pieces. Here's a view of the other end of the room with a bunch of crappy guitars. The good stuff is in their cases in the other room.
And here's what the room looked like when we moved in. A crap load of hours were put into that room, designed and executed all by my lonesome.
Yes, I tried it at a local meet up and it was/is really damned good. IIRC, it is tuned for a specific pair of Stax headphones. I was listening to a $$$ pair of planars just before the estat, the estat amp & HP's provided more resolution/clarity.
I don't know why they wouldn't these tubes were probably used in aircraft at one time or another.
