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Never in the history of amplifiers have we had as many choices as we have today. Way too many for a person to audition, and whatever choice you make will...
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This is one of those questions that requires the user to look at the whole picture. Paying money for a matched pair of outputs tubes and not ensuring that...
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If you fellows see that an amp has been hacked up by a previous repair tech, why not pass it up? Having to check each and every component for the correct...
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Ignore the effect for the moment and just jumper the effect out to the effect in. If it hums, then one of the jacks is making a poor connection to the plug(s)....
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Besides differences in initial filament intensity, I find it curious that on a tube tester, some tubes can jump close to their peak gm value, after you push...
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The difference between humans and electronic equipment is that we heal ourselves. And after that, we fix the equipment so it performs like a dream. Get well,...
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A four year old thread is brought out of the deep freeze. Lol. This is the advertising blurb from Cryoset, and used on Ebay:
"Cryoset...
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For those who wonder how a cryogenic chamber can influence the metal inside a tube, the answer is through the pins, and not the vacuum. Whether this can do...
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It's not the ribbon cable but the pins or contacts on the mating PC board connector(s). Assuming it's tin (and it's cheap) the connector is not making good...
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Nowadays you can buy a cap tester for around $16 from China using Ebay. Not that I recommend this, but that testing for the value is the minimum you should...
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More often than not, these jacks develop problems on guitars as opposed to amps. One guy sent me a vintage guitar with severe corrosion at the tip of the...
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More often than not, these jacks develop problems on guitars as opposed to amps. One guy sent me a vintage guitar with severe corrosion at the tip of the...
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Thanks. I have added the calibration guide to my set of documentation. Time to change out the caps, check the resistors, and clean out all the switches.
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Will do as soon as I can find a 9-pin Pomona socket to do an in-circuit test. These sockets are rare. In the meantime, the backup tube tester is handling...
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Triplett 3444 testing of a 12AX7
This is yielding a low reading of gm for the first triode section (P1) but a strong reading for the second section (P2). The 12AX7 tubes (both NOS and new)...
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