audio-talk

I think the wad is has a triode/pentode in it, i think its an ecl88 or something but i forget, it is very good. Ive seen quite a few otl designs, but otls scare me :D, even though i think ray swears by his transcendent one My line of thinking is that a low gain power type valve such as the 45 or a 2...

Ive invested a bit of money in a little headphone system. I was moaning and feeling sorry for myself a few weeks ago, whining about not being able to use the main system for various reasons. Oh waily waily, woe's me, isnt it terrible. Tony very kindly lent me his wad hd83, and ed sent me some of the...

Robbie kreiger - the ritual begins at sundown
Robbie kreiger and the soul savages

Nevermind dave
Its not important

Led zeppelin- mothership
Nirvana - nevermind

Hope you got the passport stamped ray

Not by design, its coincidence i tells ya

Fair enough, if it is built to spec then thats how its supposed to be. I was just trying to wrap my head around how it was wired in the first instance

Is the only ground connection to the outside world just the outer of the phono sockets on this example of the amp? I ask because the fabulous exploding cole phono stage was wired in such a way that there was no connection from the phono stage to the box with the mains tx in it via the connwcting cab...

Been into the office today which means my weekly trip to the record shop. Got my walk from the office to there down to 10 minutes by finding a little shortcut out of the business park, that means i dont have to navigate all the way round. Gives me a couple if minutes more browsing time :D Todays bla...

They look like they are already insulated to me, so is the earth floating inside the amp?
Or is there a wire to the back of the iec socket?
Also appears to be a bit of a busbar cut off so where did that go originally?

Sat working, and idly musing. Wonder what the lp12 i used to have (valhalla, akito) would sound like compared to the xerxes, oracle and jbe.
Dunno why, just idle musings

Well the musical fidelity headphone amp that went bang went back last week, ive had a refund issued so at least thats sorted. The chap reckons that it had been dropped by rm on its way because hes found something detached inside it. I didnt go inside it, didnt want to cause any returns issues by ope...

Metric - art of doubt
Uriah heap - sweet freedom

On the jvc through the headphones

I really (reallyreally) need to do that. There is so much crap in this house its beyond belief