[JamminVMI]

QUOTE="RickB, post: 18118130, member: 25434"]
I'm just wondering how many backup tubes I should get. I know, you're the wrong person to ask (just kidding!), but I guess I should get 3 or 4.

His answer should be a doozy.
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Yup, 3 digits, no doubt.

 

[dstrimbu]

Idea! Schiit should consider mobile audio components! Especially for the (currently execrable-sounding) pure EV market: younger demographic with all their music on their device. The EVs I’ve been in have sound systems that sound like azzz (to me). Growth market?

I can already picture Jason's face when he reads this... <G> I would guess "never", but you knew that.

OTHO, agreed 100% that electric vehicles can potentially be the best platform for mobile audio, but nobody's gotten it right yet - except (maybe) for the Burmester system in the M-B EQS. The Burmester system is generally derided as not hi-fi, but the one in my '21 GLC sounds great when fed with Qobuz, wired, from my iPhone.

I wouldn't touch the EQS with a 10-foot pole, and my local dealer is hounding me to come and drive one (again). Too heavy, too ugly and WAAAY too expensive.

There is hope that the new Lexus EVs might have the Levinson audio system, but I don't see it on their website.

I'll bet that LS460 rides, drives and sounds like Heaven. Enjoy!

 

[Les Strat]

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Agreed, whenever possible. In last 12 years, seen Leo Kottke live 4 times, at no time/place was it more than 150 people, usually more like 50-75 in very intimate settings. His Tacoma 6 and 12 String Guitar Album (colloquially called the Armadillo album) is thus a perfect reference for me to this date. Leo was super nice, he spoke with and autographed a set of his CDs for my son (then at the time only 13 but already playing his custom 6 string in finger-picking styles; by age 15 he could do most of Leo’s work spontaneously, and the guy who built his two guitars (my neighbor who was also the astronomer with the huge Tak Mewlon interestingly enough, set up live gigs for him at bookstores, etc. We also had a custom 12 string made for him.)

Acoustic+Music/Artist you know+Live+place you know == the perfect reference. Rinse, repeat. It’s hard, takes decades in my case, but you can really create a system end to end that does that live intimate experience remarkably well. Calibration is a thing.

I saw Leo Kottke perform at the Cambridge Folk Festival, in 1980.

I had never seen, nor heard, acoustic guitar playing like it!

Fantastic!

I listen to his 1997 album, 'Standing in my Shoes' a lot.

 

[jonathan c]

My PrimaLuna is designed for tube longevity and I understand the principles. Finnegan has not knocked any onto a tile floor lately so mine are lasting longer. I also have tube test gear but I do not use it very often.

 

[Orange5o]

Not to be pedantic, but being pedantic: it'd be more correct to say "the silent killer of vintage tube gear is filament voltage."

Modern gear is much more apt to be designed for current AC line voltages. We take high line into account (5.7V at 110 to 6.5V at 125 typical target), or in some cases have regulated DC heaters (Lyr 2, Mjolnir 2, Stjarna). I'm sure many other modern manufacturers do the same.

But yeah, for vintage gear, maybe an AC line regulator/autoformer with switcher thing.

This is great to hear as mine often reads 124-5

 

[valiant66]

And a Norton Commando was my ride of choice back in 1974.

And I owned this from 1981 until 2020 when some kind soul decided to kick in my garage door and “liberate” it.

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[Paladin79]

His answer should be a doozy.

Yup, 3 digits, no doubt.
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He gave calm and realistic responses. I suspect an imposter.

Today I am fire tender and wildlife photographer. This little guy is now my buddy.

 

[Bowmoreman]

I can already picture Jason's face when he reads this... <G> I would guess "never", but you knew that.

OTHO, agreed 100% that electric vehicles can potentially be the best platform for mobile audio, but nobody's gotten it right yet - except (maybe) for the Burmester system in the M-B EQS. The Burmester system is generally derided as not hi-fi, but the one in my '21 GLC sounds great when fed with Qobuz, wired, from my iPhone.

I wouldn't touch the EQS with a 10-foot pole, and my local dealer is hounding me to come and drive one (again). Too heavy, too ugly and WAAAY too expensive.

There is hope that the new Lexus EVs might have the Levinson audio system, but I don't see it on their website.

I'll bet that LS460 rides, drives and sounds like Heaven. Enjoy!

It does…. And thanks to my new Yggy… I rode it just now to the local audio store and got a new Hana SL cartridge!

Yggy’s fault?

Yes, it’s made my digital so freaking good it was threatening my LP’s! And, the Denon IS old (about 800 hours but over 10 years!). So it was time anyways. Yggy just made it obvious

 

[Paladin79]

Hey I am out in the sun with my sausage fingers typing on a small keyboard. And there is smoke and tiny moth men.

 

[Ableza]

And I owned this from 1981 until 2020 when some kind soul decided to kick in my garage door and “liberate” it.


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I owned a 76 Bonneville for a while. Nice ride.

 

[AstronomerXI]

Any impact to the ISS?

Just this item that popped up in my news feeds: "NASA completed a thorough analysis of recent space weather activity and determined it posed no risk to the crew aboard the International Space Station and no additional precautionary measures are needed".

 

[AstronomerXI]

This is great to hear as mine often reads 124-5

Mine is usually at 125, with occasional spikes to 129-132 (measured with a calibrated Fluke 287 multimeter), and lows in the air-conditioning season of 119.

 

[Les Strat]

And I owned this from 1981 until 2020 when some kind soul decided to kick in my garage door and “liberate” it.


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Lovely bikes!

My cousin had a beautiful Norton Commando. He also had it stolen...

 

[Paladin79]

Mine is usually at 125, with occasional spikes to 129-132 (measured with a calibrated Fluke 287 multimeter), and lows in the air-conditioning season of 119.

Years ago I stopped by to help some friends with a color TV they were trying to troubleshoot, it kept shutting down in a customers home and not in their shop. I took along a variac and showed them what a one volt change was causing. No doubt you folks figured it out with this talk of ac line fluctuations.

 

[Ripper2860]

Lovely bikes!

My cousin had a beautiful Norton Commando. He also had it stolen...

My one and only motorcycle from my early 20s.

Honda CB500