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MCRU No. 71 Mk2 RCA interconnects & No. 75 ethernet cable Audiophile cable suppliers and manufacturers are two a penny, so when the time comes to add or replace an existing cable, customers are faced with a plethora of options. This can leave them confused and can lead to the purchase of a product that […] Montaudio Bowen AC-1, Godley USB, Rakaia EH-1, Chatham SH-1 cable loom Apparently, there aren’t as many sheep in New Zealand these days so audio companies are taking up the economic slack, one such is... William Eikos Terra Nova interconnect and Ultra Litz Field speaker cable Bill Funnell-Pilcher was a member of the Trichord triumvirate back in the nineties when it revealed that CD players could be significantly enhanced...

Tellurium Q Ultra Silver II interconnect cable Way back when I was an avid consumer of audio things, before I joined the industry in retail, I picked up information from all sorts of sources. I read the magazines of course, I went to audio shows and later on I joined some online forums. Somewhere during […] Atlas Arran Ultra L RCA Grun This review started slightly differently to the norm. A friend came to listen to some music and asked if I had a spare interconnect in the many boxes of cables that have built up over the years. So we started to listen to a few of those that I […]

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EAR Phono Classic / Phonobox tube rolling w/ 12AX7As https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/which-12ax7-tubes-for-ear-834p-phono-stage?highlight=ear%2Bphono Thanks. Hadn't seen that. I did find an answer to my question elsewhere though. V1-2 should have the highest quality tubes & V3 is not as important so I'll try the NOS RCA 12AX7As in the V1-2 positions and use the EH 12AX7 in the V3.

You must have a verified phone number and physical address in order to post in the Audiogon Forums. Please return to Audiogon.com and complete this step. If you have any questions please contact Support. Travel back to the future or visit the JE Labs flea market. Thanks for visiting! I initially wanted to revisit the above circuit, which I built in the early 90s.

However, it's basically the same RCA phono circuit I've been enjoying for decades direct coupled to one section of a 6SN7 configured as a cathode follower. I explored what others have done with the high mu 6SL7 octal triodes. I was enticed by this split RIAA EQ circuit published by an audio hobbyist* in the UK. I simplified it slightly by removing the ferrite bead at the input, the input capacitance load, Zener regulation and then I lowered the value of the output coupling capacitor. This topology evolved from the phono schematic found in the back pages of the RCA tube manual (ex: page 594 of RC23) and popularized around the turn of the millenium by Sound Practices aficionados,... This circuit sounds very similar to my long-time musical companion, the RCA derived octal preamp sans cathode follower, which is rich, dark and robust!

Come to think of it, that's just the way I like my coffee.😉 Through the years I've learned that the power supply topology has a sonic signature that's especially audible on phono preamps. I combined the more front row oriented capacitor-choke-capacitor power supply to balance with the mid to back row presentation of the 6SL7-split RIAA EQ-6SN7 circuit. All Series 4 audio cables are assembled by hand in Orlando, Florida. The Series 4 phono cable set is comprised of a S4 Single-Ended RCA audio cable and ground wire. Series 4 Single-Ended RCA cables begin with ultra-pure highly conductive oxygen free copper (HC-OFC) developed specifically for audio applications.

Each conductor is a solid single gauge wire chosen to support multiple frequencies and to prevent grainy distortion caused by stranded wire. Tributaries Twin-Axial cable design is perfect for unbalanced analog audio systems. In the Twin-Axial design there are dedicated conductors with equal impedance for positive and negative signals. The signal conductors are wrapped with dual shielding to keep noise from reaching the single path. The ground wire is a flexible 20AWG stranded wire terminated with a gold plated spade lug that will fit ground posts that are 4mm and smaller. The Series 4 Single-Ended RCA cable is a high performance cable that looks as good as it sounds

The Series 4 Phono cable set is stocked as a pair plus one ground wire. Phono cable sets are available in ½ meter to 4 meter lengths with custom lengths available. As those who read my output will know, vinyl replay is one of my favourite subjects, both from exploring new releases, and from the ‘new bits of kit’ perspective. Those who delve back through the archives will also note that to date most of my hardware reviews has been of the mid- to hi-end variety. That’s not to say those at a lower price point don’t perform, very often they give ‘more’ performance for a modest price (on a pound-for-pound basis), but usually the bigger-ticket items do ultimately give... Or do they?

I found myself challenging that statement with a more serious look at a diminutive package, the Tisbury Domino phono stage. The Domino was launched way back in pre-pandemic times, late 2017 to be accurate. Physically, it’s tiny. A nice lightweight aluminium enclosure with a wooden faceplace sporting a green neon tell-tale and a neat etched monogram are all you see. Round the back are two pairs of phono in- and output sockets, a ground connection (a nice chromed knob affair), an on/off switch and a socket for what appears to be a wall-wart power... Tucked away underneath the box are two banks of DIP switches which allow the user to select the loading and gain most appropriate for your cartridge and system.

Output is line-level, so this is a proper fully-fledged phono stage, and not a step-up device boosting the miniscule output of an MC to MM levels. The gain settings are variously 40, 49, 58 and 67db. The compromise (if it is one) is that there are only two impedance settings: 47kOhms for moving magnet (MM), and 100 Ohms for moving coil (MC) cartridges. In practice (I tried quite a number of other cartridges besides the ones mentioned in this appraisal) the loading made marginal differences compared with a couple of other phono stages, but weren’t significant in... RIAA equalisation is a claimed 0.2db accurate (but this wasn’t checked), and the circuit topology nestles a passive RIAA filter between two separate gain stages where 0.1% thin film resistors and 1% polypropylene caps... Sound quality The system that the Domino was used in is rather a price-mismatch, with an single ended valve amplifier, horn loudspeakers and a fairly heavyweight arm/cartridge combination, with an Audio Note (Kondo) Io...

If anything was going to show up any noise anomalies, this would be it. But no, it was simple to dial in the ‘best’ settings for the Io and the Domino sounded pretty good from first switch-on. I left hi-fi retail in 2015 and moved to Devon, bringing with me the best system that our limited budget would allow, and made a few purchases on the advice of respected industry friends... Included in the equipment which followed us here was a Trilogy 907 phono stage, a very handsome two box device with all the delicate audio parts in one very elegant small box, finished in... I kept that at the heart of my system until last year, when I sold it on. It had an excellent sound and was very configurable to match almost any cartridge via a set of dip switches on the underside.

My only reason for changing it was that I had reviewed a rival unit for The Ear and just felt that it had a very slight sonic edge and was also more versatile as... The other reason was that bane of the life of everyone who has this hobby/obsession (delete as appropriate) – I just fancied a change. Fast forward to January 2020 and an incoming message from a friend who runs Tangerine Audio, saying he had just taken on a dealership for the Trilogy 906 because he rates it so highly,... Tangerine Audio’s main line of business has been the manufacture of after-market parts for the venerable Linn Sondek LP12, their top plate, armboard, sub-chassis and cross-brace are key components of my own LP12, and... If the Trilogy 906 has the Tangerine Audio folk excited, then I really should take notice. The Trilogy 906 has been around for a while now, so this is not a review of a hot new ‘must-have’ gizmo, but rather another chance to look at a device which has slowly...

British audio engineer Nic Poulson founded Trilogy back in in 1990 and has dedicated the last three decades to building a roster of audio products which reflect his own belief in performance, reliability, pride... He also has a fine eye for elegant design and the 906 phono stage is a small but attractive single box. A single red LED on the front glows, but not too brightly thank heavens, to show that the unit has power, but other than that discretion is the key word. On the back panel, things are equally low key. A pair of gold plated RCA inputs and an earthing post sit beside a matching pair of RCA sockets for the output. The onboard linear power supply is supplied current through a standard IEC socket.

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