Albert Porter's SystemWell, here's hoping your system 'blows away' listeners more than Rita by the time she reaches your neck of the woods...have a safe tomorrow Albert (don't forget to unplug! :-) posted about 19 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemI've done some Audiogon forum searches and there is a lot on these tubes posted in the last last year or so. A few comments negatively relating about JJ KT88 reliability problems (FWIW this would c... posted about 19 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's System(Hmmm...Thread seems to be developing something of a 'surface noise' problem...time for a nice 'wet cleaning' guys?! :^)Albert: The "C" I was refering to was the suffix of the 655... posted about 19 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemFrom what I've read, it seems among people who switched, somewhat of a majority prefered KT-88's, but I can think of a few reasons why that may be a skewed sampling, so I don't read too much into i... posted about 19 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemNo doubt. It took me the better part of a year to become even vaguely disatisfied with any part of the KT-88EH's performance. I've looked around about this on the Internet today for the first time ... posted about 19 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemAlthough Bea and I are talking about different KT-88's (mine EH, hers Svet), our characterizations seem like they could still be fairly consistent. I do think the Svet 6550C has subjectively 'more'... posted about 19 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemMy offer to send down a dozen of the KT-88EH's on loan still stands anytime if you want it, even though that'll only outfit one monoblock. I'm not sure it's as simple as it might appear at first bl... posted about 19 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemAlbert: Are you planning to try some KT-88's, and if so which brand, and for which set of amps (top, bottom, or both)? As you know, I've tried the EH's, which show superior extension and purity up ... posted about 19 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's System...I can split hairs (all in the interest of science, you understand). A wave couldn't be perfectly square unless the leading edge went straight up (perpendicular to the time axis) and then execute... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemNot to be pedantic (shyeah right), but I thought that in theory any perfectly square wave extended infinitely high in frequency... :-)Anyway, about the Walsh driver design, is the basic rea... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemWhat has happened to the ability to edit one's posts after the fact? Anyway, following the first sentence of the second paragraph above, I forgot to include something like: "Not to mention the... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's System"I have more concern with the midrange integration and a lack of smoothness and phase coherency that my Soundlab Ultimates delivered in the midrange and highs."Mightn't this in pa... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
45 SET SystemI have a battery-powered phonostage myself, the Camelot Lancelot, but it uses two larger, sealed lead-acid batteries and recharges them continuously when not playing records (the battery/recharger ... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
45 SET SystemAnd?... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemThat's it Albert, you let the cat out of the bag - I'm sending you these RCA 6201's while my amps are in the shop for the cap upgrade, no asking! (...only I wish you could hear 'em full-range :-) posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemI think we've got a little disconnect going on in this discussion between the input tubes (12AT7's) and the driver tubes (6350's). Albert's talking about the inputs, but I was referring to the driv... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemYeah Albert, are those NOS, or just fresh ones? As you know, I recently got a new pair of 6350's from VTL, and even though my 'old' ones were only about 2 years old (I only replaced 'em because one... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemWell, actually it was a form of LEDE, but more akin to what's normal for a concert hall, where the orchestra is surrounded by an acoustical environment that reflects outward, while the audience sit... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemGreg - "I also remember the discussion of the live end dead end room. Reflective surface behind the speaker and dead end behind the listener."That is the sentence of your post fro... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemGregadd: "Live end, dead end" or "LEDE" design, as it applies to a listening space for a playback system (as opposed to a concert hall), conventionally means absorptive treatmen... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemAlbert, assuming everything is correct with both the player and the disk, try this: individually program in each track you want to have included in the repeated playlist, then play that program wit... posted about 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemIt almost sounds as if whoever made the CD-R copy did not 'finalize' the disk after recording it. Such a disk will not play in many machines, but even if it will, you probably won't have any contro... posted about 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemDigital...it's so problematic! posted about 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemHey, all I can say is, the other night we were passing around photos of our Nova Scotia road trip with some friends who dropped by, and if our pictures of seaside cliffs and wooded waterfalls looke... posted about 20 years ago | View comment | |
Albert Porter's SystemLet's face it, tubes don't just sound good, they're a lot of fun in an aesthetic sense (no pun intended re. Albert's [tubed] preamps of choice). One advantage the Megalines should enjoy with tubed ... posted about 20 years ago | View comment |