Potentiometer Overview - Alps, Penny+Giles, TKD and Vishay and more, what's your fav?

[thermionic]

I still looking for that.

Have you emailed the UK company and asked if they know where to get the tool?

 

[mariogert]

Penny & Giles RF15

Den Penny & Giles RF15 habe ich noch 2 Stueck neu, Stereo und 10K , unbenutzt in Plastik Beutel. Das Kanister behalte ich selber.

Nicht billig aber Perfect und bester Ersatz oder fuer Original Reparatur zum Mark Levinson ML-7, ML-10, Swiss Physics, Aragon u.v.A. top Vorstufen.
Den im Photo habe ich in meinen JC-2 montiert und functioniert wieder wie neu un vielleicht besser als mit den alte nicht-P&G Poti.

Gruss,

Mariogert
Niederlande

 

[355F1]

Hi Chaps,

I have just posted a message on Analog Line Level so I cannot repeat it here but it is regarding replacement of the volume and source switch in my ARC SP3A-1 per tiefbassuebertr recommendations.

Cheers,

Horacio

 

[Bamalama]

"The best sounding pot I know of is the Snernife/VISAY baby ones, sound like two good resistors. But they also don't track too well down low, but way better than Bourns!"

Google has never heard of Snernife/ViSAY, and Google knows what underwear you're wearing today.

 

[Bamalama]

"FWIW, Cyril Bateman measures cermet as being 20 - 50 times worse in distortion than carbon or conductive plastic (WW Dec 2003)."

The construction of a cermet pot is exactly the same as a metal film resistor, as far as I know. Have I been wrong for using metal film resistors all this time?

 

[thermionic]

They are called 'Sfernice'. The firm got bought up (as with every decent OEM) and amalgamated into the Vishay hegemony. They are white. The feel is horrible. They were used in a lot of studio gear, large format consoles in particular. Studio techs dreaded them. Clarostat 16mm were mugh nicer in feel and durability - but then Vishay bought them as well. Sfernice were used for decades in studio gear, and this is the first time I've *ever* seen someone praise them for 'sound quality'... A firm I worked for used them. Grim little things. Never liked them. Not due to sound (I don't believe pots have a sound) - but the feel is awful and ruggedness is crap. AMS-Neve used them in their V series - except for the Japanese market, who got the good stuff, i.e. Claro.

 

[SigFire]

Would this help ?

Vishay Sfernice - Google Search

Greez

 

[Bamalama]

Thermionic and SigFire, thank you.

 

[thermionic]

Oh yeah - a classic failure mode with the 16mm white Sfernice is seizing in one position. You sometimes come across strips out of studio consoles where this has happened, and one of the little m***s has jammed at, say, 2 o'clock. The most annoying thing would be if you were working on a recording session and needed that channel...

 

[tiefbassuebertr]

P&G website is dead - go to
Penny + Giles - Rotary Potentiometer
who has overtaken this company ?

 

[tiefbassuebertr]

Have you emailed the UK company and asked if they know where to get the tool?

yes, but without getting reply.

 

[N101N]

Have I been wrong for using metal film resistors all this time?

Yes.

 

[mlloyd1]

likely this one:
Penny & Giles | Curtiss-Wright

P&G website is dead - go to
Penny + Giles - Rotary Potentiometer
who has overtaken this company ?

 

[astouffer]

Yes.

You don't know what you're talking about.

 

[N101N]

If so, don`t listen to me, continue using cermet resistors.

 

[tiefbassuebertr]

likely this one:
Penny & Giles | Curtiss-Wright

thank you for this advice. Obviously rotary pot versions like those from the attached image (from German's preamp model "horch 1.2") are no longer available and obsolete.

 

[Disco-Pete]

I just received these. Very nicely made with great specs, about $12 bucks. TT Electronics.

 

[Disco-Pete]

Here is the data sheet

 

[Mike Gergen]

Curtiss-Wright has own P and G for years.

I used to work for a different division of Curtiss-Wright here in MN and tried to get a few pots to use and was not successful in doing so.

 

[Disco-Pete]

I also tried to no avail.