Then what happens when person A removes the Dead Bulb Tester?
This is actually sad, because a local audio builder and friend,
now departed (as in RIP) did just that. He spent big bucks on
these silver foil and oil signal capacitors. I think CK from
a VT audio rag was making and endorsing them. To make a
long story short...in my buds hand-made high-end tube amp that
he was making...the caps lasted less than 30 hours;
physical leakage, other damage to the circuit, etc.
CK refused to give refund, refused to take back any of the
other silver in oil caps claiming my bud misused the caps
yadda, yadda, yadda.
Apparently my bud wasn't the only one with these troubled
capacitors. CK went belly up shortly there after and no more
VT Audio rag either, ended up selling all his collection and such.
It happens and it ain't nice for any body when stuff like this happens
to folks.
My Gosh--These two choices turned out to be a lose lose.
So what is the point I was supposed to get what was the poster trying
to do?I think I even tried to talk my bud into not buything the things
to begin with. Heck stick to name brands!
Cheers,
You see that sleigh look from Mr. RN Marsh?
Peaking around his avatar?
Anatech, and other's who may not know...REL-Cap capacitors
are THAT good.
Here is what I found in a anp that I bought...Some nice RTX Multicaps
bypassed by the sheisse wonder caps with the spray on silver end cap.
Can you say Barf?
I couldn't belive it. I removed the wonder caps at once and things
took a turn for the better. with the amp.
Harvey Wall Bangersfor me it was after that,
they just sound THAT good. RTX!
Heck way back when, I was going through
things with Bas Lim, and he talked me out
of the teflons....and I went with RTX...
and never looked back.
Bas found a good source of quality Polystyrene again.
This is excellent news.
Cheers,
Peaking around his avatar?
Anatech, and other's who may not know...REL-Cap capacitors
are THAT good.
Here is what I found in a anp that I bought...Some nice RTX Multicaps
bypassed by the sheisse wonder caps with the spray on silver end cap.
Can you say Barf?
I couldn't belive it. I removed the wonder caps at once and things
took a turn for the better. with the amp.
Harvey Wall Bangersfor me it was after that,
they just sound THAT good. RTX!
Heck way back when, I was going through
things with Bas Lim, and he talked me out
of the teflons....and I went with RTX...
and never looked back.
Bas found a good source of quality Polystyrene again.
This is excellent news.
Cheers,
Rel RTX is probably one of the best caps on the planet. I don't use them, I just use RT, but RTX could be better in some situations. I love my RT's and have been using them for more than 35 years. I use them in Vendetta Research, Constellation, CTC Blowtorch, Parasound preamps, phono stages and power amps. Great for EQ and power supply bypass.
That is a sad, but not surprising cautionary tale. Some will never learn though and the easiest way to dupe the gullible is stick a hefty price tag on it.
I would be interested to see a schematic for a current mode MM
Here you go. The original ideas are lost in the mists of time but this current version was done by member Luckythedog with the balanced version by Hans Polak. I'm building one mainly to try and get some missing data on cartridge mechanical behaviour.
Attachments
Do you have the damping trough? IMO the 309 is a tad too heavy for the compliance of the ortofons. The damping option is expensive for two bits of metal but I think a worthwhile option.
Not. I just can't decide whether you actually believe it or not.john curl said:
It may be a fact that the military pay money for similar devices, but that does not carry any scientific weight. It is well known that the military in all countries is not a well-informed buyer and is easily fooled by snake oil or simple ignorance.
People don't get banned from this site for talking nonsense. They might get banned if they react really badly when someone points this out.ridikas said:
Actually, it is usually the other way round. 'Open minded' people play with toys which could only be invented and developed by people who actually know what they are doing. The 'open minded' people may still misinterpret what these toys tell them.
So we need to throw away all the human knowledge which has accumulated down the centuries, and only believe what we have personally experienced? On that basis I can claim that the USA does not exist because I have never been there.
It is a pity you did not complete this course. If you understood QM you would be less likely to fall for good stories.john curl said:
"All that stuff" was intended to be a correction of what you said (quoting someone else, with apparent approval) in one post. I have no idea what you believe; I just reacted to what you said.Joe Rasmussen said:
Yes, that is what I said: no electrical damping with no amplifier. Add an amplifier and you get some electrical damping, so it is untrue to say that the amplifier makes things worse.
No, simply correct a technical error in one post.
The rel-cap webpage is a disaster, with missing images in all of the articles and directly linking to archive.org copies of some of it's pages. It even tries to send you to partsconnexxion through archive.org???
The first time I went to the site I assumed it was either a scam or was simply being maintained for posterity.
The first time I went to the site I assumed it was either a scam or was simply being maintained for posterity.
That's what I thought, I usually worry about the measurements on the instruments getting contaminated. I still come across $50,000 spectrum analyzers that benefit from a 3 to 2 adapter.
On the sound of capacitors thing, I make the same recommendation as op-amp rolling. Survey the chat boards and try to make any sense of it, you can't but it's still called metadata.
“Never attempt to teach an Audiophile* engineering principles; it wastes your time and annoys the Audiophile”
*Substitute any subjectivist audio title here for the same meaning.
I do not have the dampening option, but will consider one in the future. Or maybe I'll upgrade to the V. 309 has an effective mass of 9.5g, so I'm in the 8Hz region. It works very well actually. Most tonearms currently produced are 12-20g. Everything's geared towards low compliance MCs these days.
Perhaps more universally, never attempt to teach someone who isn't asking for it.
Sometimes it is important to try to teach those who are uninterested, but it can be very frustrating and a generally unhappy situation all around.
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