SET amp owners thread

Empirical Audio

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It's always best to have a safety earth ground, especially on tube amps where there is high voltage present. If the ground-loop causes noise, this isolator usually solves the problem:

http://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/final-drive

I use them for my SET monoblocks that have 1000V on the output tubes. They also convert balanced to single-ended for me. No degradation in SQ, in fact they improve things quite a bit. Thanks to these, I don't have any ground-loops in my system.

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Allnic A6000 Quad Parallel SET 300bxls 60wpc Monoblocks

Tekton Design Encores 96db/4ohm

nice setup.. but so pity for those 300B beauties to be covered with glass T-shirts..
I can hear them begging to be uncovered and released!!
 
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New Audio Frontiers Reference 845 Mono SE
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Let there be light.

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Does anybody know what's under 2nd cover at Lamm ML3 on the photo?
1st covers output transformer obviously.
Power supply has 2 chokes, power trafo and some caps which can be identified from the Lamm website photos.
 

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Impressive settings!
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Welcome to the WBF forum.

If you live close to NW of USA, then I will be happy to listen to your system.

Thomas

We need more people like this willing to go out and listen for themselves
 

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We need more people like this willing to go out and listen for themselves
You assume everyone here welcome everyone? One might be a serial killer.
 

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You assume everyone here welcome everyone? One might be a serial killer.

Well it is easy to validate a genuine person. A serial killer will not be able to chat with you in details about cartridges or TTs. An audiophile is pschyo enough on one front to be psycho on another.

ps: I was about to write "A serial killer will not be able to chat with you in detail about cartridges or TTs or recordings", but then edited
 
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the sound of Tao

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Well it is easy to validate a genuine person. A serial killer will not be able to chat with you in details about cartridges or TTs. An audiophile is pschyo enough on one front to be psycho on another.

ps: I was about to write "A serial killer will not be able to chat with you in detail about cartridges or TTs or recordings", but then edited
Hmmm, Silence of the Lamms!!
 

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the sound of Tao

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A genuine serial killer wouldn’t survive an audiophile meeting...
 
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the sound of Tao

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Lol
 

the sound of Tao

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My post was obviously a mistake.
Hi Redcars,
Your post was great, apologies, just probably got caught up in some banter but I liked your post (I literally liked it as well). Would love to know more.
Best wishes
Tao
 
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