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In Reply to: What are you adjusting? posted by clifff on April 20, 2007 at 07:15:01:
Clifff,Besides room improvements, I believe all anyone can do to taylor the sound of their system is to change interconnects, speakerwire, amps, preamps (in my case I use an integrated) and speakers. Besides the fact that I believe tubed equipment sounds the best, it also offers another method of tayloring the sound by the chaging of tubes.
I can even tell you how many different 12AU7-type tubes I tried. Here's a list of EVERY 12AU7-type I located and believe it or not there's more I couldn't locate. I tried the 12AU7A, 12AU7WA, 5814, 5814A, 5963, 6067, 6189 <<< (Mazda "chrome-plates of these are my personal favorite) 6680, 7730, B749, CK5814, CV4003, CV491, E82CC <<< (RFT "yellow lettering of these are my second favorite 12AU7-type) ECC802, ECC802S, ECC82 & M8136.
But not only did I try different 12AU7 types Clifff, I tried the same types from different manufacturers such as: Amperex, Bugle Boy, Brimar, Cifte, Electro Harmonix, GE, Haltron, Marconi, Mazda, Mullard, Philips, Raytheon, RCA, RFT, RT, Siemens, Sylvania, Telefunken, Tesla, Tungsram & Tungsol. I don't even want to think of how much $$$$$ I spent to find my 2 favorite 12AU7-type tubes.
Most of the time these tubes offered subtle differences that gently but truly allows one to taylor how there system sounds. Sometimes the differences were a lot more pronounced which was precisely the case when after trying virtually every 5687 type I could find, I replaced my favorite Tung-Sol 5687s with Bendix 6900s.
So Clifff that's how I personally alter, adjust or taylor the sound of my audio system. Sorry again for the delay in my response.
Thetubeguy1954
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