[R-390] Audio resistors?

[Joe]

Yea, Lot's a worms these past several days
Lets see if this post works:
Wonder if there are any Audiophiles guys lurking
One guy around here pays $300 ea. for "Golden Dragon" (Sino Chinese) 12AX7's
for
his tube mic's,
I can get them bulk boxed without the fancy silk-screening and screening for
$60 a dozen but usually have to throw away half they are so bad, the EI's
are even worse !
My main gig is working on guitars and guitar amps that have many stages of
soaring gain.
Go with regular carbon and double the MFD (use polypro orange drops for the
stage
coupling).
Then look for a NOS or strong *Mullard* or Telefunkan "pull" 12AU7
with matching triodes.
That "WILL" sound great, especially in the non A.
That will get you a nice bold "grunt" out of the radio

Note:
If you one of the guys with SS diodes and 200 ohm resistor replacing the
26Z5:
Cranking the audio loud with a strong 12A*7's in the audio section the PTO
can modulate to the audio.
Use a Variac and no resistor with diodes
jOE

-----Original Message-----
From: blw <ba.williams@charter.net>
To: R-390@mailman.qth.net <R-390@mailman.qth.net>
Date: Saturday, December 29, 2001 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Audio resistors?


>
>> OH boy - I'll bet you've opened a can of worms here.
>> 73,
>> Al, W8UT
>
>Al,
>
>It has been rather quiet so far. Some folks are saying metal film and some
>are saying carbon.Glad I didn't mention a thing about what I read about
>these test or maintenance CDs for audiophiles. It is supposed to bombard
the
>stereo gear with a lot of noise all across the spectrum so that the caps
>don't form badly from routine music sources.
>
>My personal favorite can of worms on the list is the cat urine thread,
which
>also includes cats sleeping on warm radios. I don't think we ever
determined
>the best lubricant for RF deck gears or if Simple Green is okay to use for
>cleaning.
>
>
>Barry
>
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