| QUOTE (clint e. @ February 21, 2008 05:24 am) |
| A friend of mine also have a Yaqin and he has 6J1P-EV from Russia. They are quite good. Also you could try 6AK5W/5654 NOS Siemens or some Mullard EF95 or CV4010. |
| QUOTE (clint e. @ February 23, 2008 05:29 am) |
| Then tell us what you think. |
| QUOTE (Grant Fidelity @ February 29, 2008 07:26 pm) |
| cuoreboy, normally I don't do any customer support for those that don't buy the Grant Fidelity versions, but since you are member of this great forum I will and I never get to do any customer service on the B-283, except for new use ideas. Swap the tubes between channels and see if the extra brightness follows the swap. If it does, then the tube will likely have an issue, but that will be up to the tubes god's as to when. If the sound changes when you swap the tubes between channels then you should get replacement tubes. If the brightness stays on the original channel then you have some circuit issues and you should send the unit back to whom you purchased it from for a replacement. Hope that helps, Ian |

| QUOTE (Grant Fidelity @ March 02, 2008 05:52 am) |
| Thanks for the 'let them cook for a bit' clint e, 100 hours is enough and congrats cuoreboy on leaving it on for the first 48 hours, you've read some of my posts somewhere cuoreboy, with your set up you are not going to enjoy the processor as much as you should. If possible get your system out of the corner at least a few feet and off the wall at least 1.5 feet. This will allow your system to soundstage and image properly. Also your bass from the left channel is currently being accented/diminished (wave additions and cancellations) that does not match the right channel which makes it next to impossible to get proper imaging. Not sure how much room you have but your speakers seem really close together unless you are doing nearfield listening. Even then it is unlikely that you have your speakers toe'd in properly. I have explained this in other threads: 1. With your speakers pointing straight out (un-toed), draw and imaginary line 60 degrees back from the inside fornt corner of your speakers so that these line intersect. Get you head about 1 foot inside the interesection point. 2. Listening to an acoustic bass toe-in your speakers bit by bit until you hear the bass merge into a single instrument. 3. Now listen the rest of the instrumentation, if there is still a 'hole' in the middle, toe the speakers in bit by bit until this 'hole' just disappears. Your speakers should now have almost disappeared from the soundstage and you can now hear the magic of tubes as your soundstage expands and the tonal balance of instruments allows you to hear things you likely did not hear before. I've gotten to the point now where I can do this in less than 2 minutes on other's systems and the results blow people away, many wondering why this isn't common knowledge. The above is also how many engineers position and set-up their recording mastering systems and isn't the whole point of great audio to try and reproduce the original recording, whether muilti-tracked or stereo mixes?. Have fun. Ian |
| QUOTE (clint e. @ March 02, 2008 03:28 am) |
| Congrats. Great setup. |
| QUOTE (dingus @ March 02, 2008 03:37 am) |
| very nice setup you have, looks great! |