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Just picked up a beautiful Joule 100 MkIII, which came with a pair of Top Hat tube dampers. The previous owner told me that they had come installed when he bought the unit but that when he replaced those tubes he never reinstalled the dampers.Questions:
Can anybody tell me about the impact Top Hats have had on the sound of their system - especially a Joule?
Can anybody tell me how to attach them to the tubes - and if there is a way to do it that is reversible without damaging some really nice NOS
Is anybody using something they like a whole lot better that you think I would be better off considering?
Thanks in advance
Follow Ups:
thanks guys - very helpful and much appreciated
Hi,I have some Top Hats - they reduce the microphonics in a tube so that you can hear more low level detail. I actually like them a lot. You glue them on with a small dollop of Elmer's Glue. If you don't like what they do you can soak them in a little water with the tube upside down (Top Hat under water) for a few minutes and the Top Hat will come right off. Good luck!
but seat cushions. Small polyurethane dots/bumpers/feet. Uh huh, under the tube, at socket. Sure, only rated 150 degrees. So, of course checked every day for a while, then a longer and then longer interval. Just fine under my 300B's. As hot as the rectifiers (no poly dots there, Thank You veddy much) and main xfrmr get, the amp's surface temperature is actually nothing to really bat an eye at.Now the fully enclose phono stage .... that's another story. The polyurethane dots DO show signs of mechanical change/distortion due to heat.
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