Paul:

I recently was shocked that polystryene caps that I routinely use in my projects are no longer made. I get mine through an industrial supplier, and if anybody can get them, they can. I use mostly small value types, and have a supply of a few values in my stock. It seems that if somethng isn't used in a computer something-or-other, you can't get it. Even some simple hardware things like 3/8" shoulder washers are very hard to get now, but I used them to insulate RCA and 1/4" jacks. I'll check out your link. Thanks!

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The Soundhound Theater

scuse me while i kiss the sky. i do believe i forgot why i'm here.the o-bee-ka-no - bee tube? i've been in this alonggg time but escusa-moi. i jst don't think i know that tube (he pleads egg-no-ranch, here). what kinda stage is that tube...i'd certainly like ta hear it. ah mean, ese hit a mic, line, or hi-gain dee-vice? i do love that word ...vice. and this cap thing...i think youse guys uncovered a pro-blem of mine...my last mains were jamo's...xovers had poly's...my overture duals jst fried 'em; the xovers, several times..they wux good...replacin the poly's whut blew every time i...had friends over for real wad-kaa. 3rd eye blind...1st album, cuts 11 thru 14...holy shumit! me amp never gets 'dirty' jamo's never 'compress'...they jest...blowed up...every time. (707i's)...i went back to maggies.
jest, also, today, got me virgin vinyl's in from..rhino...of the re-mastered 'last waltz'. oh me! box, i opened (the cardboead). an' thar hit wuz! haven't had the gonads to cut the cellophane round the 'real' box. i mean...i saw it live...the tour, not the ny video version w/ neal n bob n van n JONI! n that wonderful tabernakal group! i keep readin all these pages.
question,: should i fire up the 'table' 'n cut open this sweet elixer fer listenin' o'er me ...valve preprepreppre amp n make it 'neo 7.1 rat darn now?
sub-meet yore votes at internet site .vrb-555....(you guys (gals) know that's uh joke, huh...pass me a'nother jelly donut...priscilla.
hey, did u guys read bout SLL's trip this weekend?....go to the main board, or is that the 950 main board n look for the SLL 'subwoofer' post! tis truly worth it!
thigg, burns,aka...thermador k. pascal

[This message has been edited by thigg (edited February 22, 2003).]

Class "A" single ended Triodes!!

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The Soundhound Theater

Oh, I get it…it’s a ‘SET’ thing to do. The jamo’s I blew up 3 times. 2nd time…the mids completely dissipated from the spyder’s…and the smell o those styrenes..whoo. jamo replaced it all..both times. The 3rd time I did it myself. Went to a little place that specializes in DIY projects (mostly speakers). They carried the styrenes but they were for car systems. Darn things were HUGE. Wouldn’t fit the xover boards…so I bought…gulp..lectrets. then I sold em. To a friend..he didn’t mind…heck he was the guy who was listening when they fried. I think later he replaced the caps having found some somewhere. They are very good speaker’s…he’s got em, I think in his 2 channel room..pushed by a beautiful 60w stereo-valve Jolida integrated. Me…I went back to maggies…is very hard to blow a 1.6…and the ribbons are fused. I shoulda fused the jamos but just never got a round tuit.
has anyone seen SLL...hope her ol man's ok.

my scott valve in the bedroom just recently blew the rectifier tube...gotta go all the way into atlanta to ACK Radio for a replacement...darn thing was only a year or two old. had to put in the little crown 75 for now...actually works really well with the rodgers and my lil bity jamo surrounds.
they are so cute. gonna toss out the 4inch paper drivers they use opposite the other 4inch mid-woofers. they can really compress and pop on movies and long hair music. my lil davids are much better but i lost a tweeter beyond repair (they r very old..but kick serious butt for a 4 inch...and the driver plate is a real hard unit to find without driving to germany. anyone know where i can get tweeters for visoniks? they ain't in this neck o the woods. guess i could google for a site, huh!

Soundhound,

Yes, I bought a Bottlehead Foreplay preamp. Built it myself. I've already done a few mods on it. Runs off of 2 12AU7 type tubes. Right now, its on the bench with a loose connection somewhere. Whenever someone jumps (3 kids) in my old house I get a popping noise. Working on this stuff is a blast.

Next project will be a push-pull EL34 amp, like the old Dynacos.

oh me! i can't even remember the amp's name in my bedroom..it's not a scott..it's the dynaco ST-70. (and you call yourself an engineer,thigg?!) scott, dyna, whatever.
EL-34's are wonderful glowing things!
now is my bike a harley or an indian...better go check. it's a chilly but beautiful riding day.

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t higg

Sorry to veer off topic, but when I see a post from a fellow Acoustat owner I just have to jump in. I'm curious, do you have 2+2's and 1+1's in the same system? What do you use for center channel? As for myself, I've got 2+2's on the front and a stack o'panels in the basement waiting deployment in a full electrostatic surround configuration. I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts about setting up a system like this. BTW, I drive the acoustats with a pair of Servo-Charge (tube) amps so I guess maybe I'm not off topic after all!




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Tekdredger

Tekdredger,

My 2+2s and 1+1s are all in the same system.

The 2+2s are up front and the 1+1s are the rear surrounds. I do not have a center channel speaker yet.

In regards to the center channel, I did buy, on e-bay, an Acoustat electrostatic panel (a bare, single panel) with the idea of having it as a spare in case any damage occurs to one of the 2+2s or 1+1s. I am also toying with the idea of using it as a center channel speaker if I can also find the HV stepup audio transformers for it.

The motivation for using the 1+1s as surrounds was the purchase of a sacd player. Prior to the sacd player, the surrounds (Bose 301s that I got for really cheap) were used only for DVD movie sound effects: explosions, gunshots, aircraft sounds and other NOISES that the bose did an acceptable job on. Music is a different story, so I decided to use the 1+1s as the surrounds.

I don't have much in the way of multichannel sacds yet, so the 1+1s still just make movie noises, like the bose, but they are much more musical movie noises.

Paul

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the 1derful1

but they are much more musical movie noises.

I know that feeling.