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Inside The Threshold Fet-10e Phono Preamp – Pics
Dave, I'm on the road right - visiting Japan on business. I'll see what I can find when I get back. In general, LOMC cartridges don't need capacitance loading. So only resistive loading matters. You should be able to measure the resistor loading with a multimeter at the MC inputs (with the...- GaryB
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Inside The Threshold Fet-10e Phono Preamp – Pics
I think you may be misreading the manual or you have a copy of the wrong manual. I took a couple of photos of the page in the manual describing things and it describes setting the gain exactly the way you did. But it's binary so it's not too hard to figure out. One way has higher gain than...- GaryB
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Inside The Threshold Fet-10e Phono Preamp – Pics
Dave, Congratulations on the nice find. It looks like you got a good deal. How do you compare the sound to your Spectral gear? A couple of years ago, I bought the same model phono stage and matching 10e line stage and I think that they sound great. Like any gear that is around 20 years...- GaryB
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Tube Testers
Hickok TV7-D/U and 539C I've got a couple of old Hickok tube testers. The TV7-D/U is a nice military surplus unit that I had calibrated by Dan Nelson in Arizona. It's reasonably compact and is the one I use most of the time since it's easy to carry around. I've also got a Hickok 539C that...- GaryB
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- Forum: Vacuum Tube Audio Forum
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