My name is Jeff and I am a tube-A-holic.
I have been buying vintage valves lately Ei,Tung sol,RCA and Western Electric.
This hobbie is becoming addicting.
Anyone else scouring for tubes like crazy?
Mad as a Box of Frogs
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Valve addiction
My name is Jeff and I am a tube-A-holic.
I have been buying vintage valves lately Ei,Tung sol,RCA and Western Electric.
This hobbie is becoming addicting.
Anyone else scouring for tubes like crazy?
Jeff :UBERTHREADKILLER
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Location: Bristol, UK
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I'm Nick.
I'm Nick and I'm a music-aholic. I find myself buying the same tracks in as many formats as I can. Eight Tracks give me the biggest hangover!
Trade: Wakefield Turntables
Location: Yorkshire
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I'm Andrew.
My name is Andrew - I'm a techie 1210 aholic. I'm addicted to tweeking and coming with stupid ideas on how to upgrade my system (i'm on medication for this).
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CD Teac VRDS25X(Audiotuned) DECK 1210 Mat Crystal Audio Mods MN Base/Bearing/Platter+Ebony armboard Feet Isonoe PSU Paul Hynes SR7EHD-27XL/DCSXL Ag DC lead/3 Stage Regs/Recap PCB+No Pitch/Strobe/Light ARM SME V(Kondo Ag Rewire&Tags) MC Cadenza Black FGS CABLES Arm Yannis SPD-4 IC Yannis 222 Litz+Ag bullets Power WAR PRE ATC SCA2 SPEAKERS ATC 50ASL STANDS Atacama PHONO Sugden Masterclass PA4 SUT Ortofon ST80SE POWER PSAudio P10
VALVE
PRE Croft Epoch(Modded) AMP Sondex S100 (Modded) SPEAKERS Tannoy 15"MG+RFC Warwick cabs+ Ref XO + Batpure supertweeters DECK Garrard 301 Mat Teunto Bearings 401(Bastin) Plinth Bamboo Arms 3009/3012 PSU Eagle+Tachometer MC Ag Meister II/FGS + Ortofon SPU MONO CABLES Arm Yannis 420.5 Litz+ SpeakerPC Tripple C+WBT-0681 Ag IC Oyaide FTVS-510 AgWBT 0110Ag Phonostages Paradise(4 Box Mega-Modded) / Croft Musicmaker
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Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex
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I'm Dave.
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I'm steve.
wish it was just a passing phase with me... i remember about 15 years ago being told that tube collectors exist... i though thats a strange one...
then i bought my 1st box of old valves...
got quite a few now....
now there are the speaker drivers, the turntables, the transformers, old valve amps, etc etc.
collector and DIY user of old british triode valves
Open baffles / single ended diy px4 and px25 valve amps
Don McCorleone
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Posts: 13,702
I'm inthescottishmafia.
etc etc etc etc etc etc
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I'm Alex.
My name is Alex and I'm a placementholic. I can't seem to be able to stop messing with my speaker placement. Toe in some more, toe in some less, away from the walls, closer to the walls, tweeters on the inside, tweeters on the outside, the 'chopstick' position... and on and on and on...Originally Posted by goraman
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.
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Location: Valley of the Hazels
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I'm AMusicFanNotAnAudiophile.
Get some decent speakers and you'll find that you're miraculously cured
My faves are currently these http://theartofsound.net/forum/showp...4&postcount=39, although I'm still running these ....
along with these
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Chris
Common sense isn't anymore!
Trade: Northwest Analogue
Location: Preston, UK
Posts: 851
I'm Dominic.
Hi I'm Natalie, Dom's partner from Northwest Analogue and I think I have become a cartridge aholic. I didn't know the first thing about hifi until I met Dom and now I can tell the difference between a Koetsu and a Lyra. But I am becoming more and more interested in valves. Our valves at the moment are 6CA7s, although I have heard some 300B's and they sounded very nice indeed. have also listened to some 845's but I wasn't keen, but I guess it is whatever suits your hearing imho.
Natalie
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I'm AMusicFanNotAnAudiophile.
You and Dom should come over to the next Owsten meet - 26th & 27th May.Hi I'm Natalie, Dom's partner from Northwest Analogue and I think I have become a cartridge aholic. I didn't know the first thing about hifi until I met Dom and now I can tell the difference between a Koetsu and a Lyra. But I am becoming more and more interested in valves. Our valves at the moment are 6CA7s, although I have heard some 300B's and they sounded very nice indeed. have also listened to some 845's but I wasn't keen, but I guess it is whatever suits your hearing imho.
Natalie
Meet a really nice bunch of people who make a lot of their own gear and get some pretty amazing sounds out it.
Chris
Common sense isn't anymore!
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