220v

[Pieoftheday]

Good morning:) I'm thinking of bidding on a tube buffer but noticed it's rated at 220v, is this OK to use in the UK? Cheers jim

[hifi_dave]

It depends on the design and construction. We, sometimes, can have 250 volts in the UK and that can give rise to issues with equipment built to cope with just 220 volts.

[Stratmangler]

Good morning:) I'm thinking of bidding on a tube buffer but noticed it's rated at 220v, is this OK to use in the UK? Cheers jim

It depends on the voltage you get where you live.
The UK is nominally 230VAC (because this is what most of Europe has), is 240VAC for most of the country (which falls within the allowable percentages of the nominal 230VAC), and in a few areas is 250VAC (which still falls with the allowable percentages of the nominal 230VAC).

Despite all this I distinctly remember an amplifier motor boating at the last Nebo - the mains voltage was measured at 218VAC, so Hartlepool area is anyone's guess.

Is the buffer Chinese made and cheap as chips?
I'd give it a miss if it is.

[Pieoftheday]

It depends on the design and construction. We, sometimes, can have 250 volts in the UK and that can give rise to issues with equipment built to cope with just 220 volts.

I'll probably give this one a miss then, cheers dave

[Pieoftheday]

Chinese and pretty cheap, I'll save me pennies and get something proper:)

[walpurgis]

Chinese and pretty cheap, I'll save me pennies and get something proper:)

If it's a Yaqin it'll work fine, but won't sound very good. The original Musical Fidelity X-10D is cheap enough on eBay and sounds way better. I've compared them.

[Pieoftheday]

If it's a Yaqin it'll work fine, but won't sound very good. The original Musical Fidelity X-10D is cheap enough on eBay and sounds way better. I've compared them.

Cheers Geoff, I missed out on one of those a bit back

[Pete The Cat]

A couple of years ago I bought an Italian Exposure preamp rated at 220v before thinking all of this through. When we originally moved here it was an out-of-town area which had experienced an increase in housing development and our lights would flicker occasionally. The mains voltage at the time was generally under 230v. Subsequently they improved the local grid so that it's constantly 240-250v. On the basis that that's up to 14% over the amp's rating I decided to pass it on to someone in mainland Europe and found a UK version instead. On the upside the experience was cost neutral and I learned a few things. Normal peaks and troughs in demand here seem to move it by 2.5% either way.

Pete

[Pieoftheday]

Pulled the trigger on a yaquin cd3, musical fidelity x10s are thin ont ground:)

[Yomanze]

I also wonder how insurance companies would respond in the case of an equipment failure of a 220v appliance.

[Arkless Electronics]

Whilst personally I wouldn't touch a valve buffer with a barge pole (deliberate colouration adder..... yeah that's hi fi...), a small variac would sort out mains issues fine.

[Arkless Electronics]

If it's a Yaqin it'll work fine, but won't sound very good. The original Musical Fidelity X-10D is cheap enough on eBay and sounds way better. I've compared them.

Glad to see that beautiful Kwaker as your avatar Geoff!

[struth]

Yeah. Ive made a variac into a box with meter and fused etc... Looks ok and works well.. Can do even a small power amp ok... Got the tx from mr alan firebottle a few years ago

[walpurgis]

Glad to see that beautiful Kwaker as your avatar Geoff!

It was my favourite bike of all. I had loads of others, but nothing else quite felt as right! Should have kept it!!

[Arkless Electronics]

It was my favourite bike of all. I had loads of others, but nothing else quite felt as right! Should have kept it!!

It just looks so right! A proper bike!

[Pieoftheday]

Whilst personally I wouldn't touch a valve buffer with a barge pole (deliberate colouration adder..... yeah that's hi fi...), a small variac would sort out mains issues fine.

Hi Jez, the yaqin does add to the sound,It seems to give more boddy to the sound, seems more natural to me,works really good with rock/blues:)

[Pieoftheday]

It was my favourite bike of all. I had loads of others, but nothing else quite felt as right! Should have kept it!!

Is it a kh500? Bet they're worth a bit these days.do they still make 2strokes?

[Arkless Electronics]

Hi Jez, the yaqin does add to the sound,It seems to give more boddy to the sound, seems more natural to me,works really good with rock/blues:)

Each to their own.... Personally the last thing I want is anything added to the sound...

[struth]

My X10V3 has a high input impedance (470k Ohm) and a low output impedance(33 Ohm).
From a technical standpoint, it's almost not there. Extremely low noise, very low distortion, wide bandwidth and outstanding overload margins... Valve lasts about 100,000 hrs apparently too. Think the new Yakins are supposedly very good as well... I may have mine modded to yet again improve it. Its between cd and amp instead of an external dac. Doesnt in my opinion colour things just lets things boogie along at their own pace.

[Pieoftheday]

My X10V3 has a high input impedance (470k Ohm) and a low output impedance(33 Ohm).
From a technical standpoint, it's almost not there. Extremely low noise, very low distortion, wide bandwidth and outstanding overload margins... Valve lasts about 100,000 hrs apparently too. Think the new Yakins are supposedly very good as well... I may have mine modded to yet again improve it. Its between cd and amp instead of an external dac. Doesnt in my opinion colour things just lets things boogie along at their own pace.

I tried to get an x10 ont bay,it went for over £300 and the seller couldn't confirm it worked!! I can't compare the yaqin to anything,but I'm very happy with it:)

[Arkless Electronics]

Like I say, each to their own.... IF the original performance sounded harsh and screechy, due to the type of instruments used, a screechy voice from the singer and acoustics that make it even worse, then I want it to sound harsh and screechy when I play it back. High fidelity. Warts 'n all.
Others take the view that the resultant sound should be messed about with till it sounds "nice".... even if that is not what it sounded like originally... It's all been done to death in past threads anyway :)

[Pieoftheday]

Definitely each to their own Jez, no right or wrong with some things:cool:

[walpurgis]

Is it a kh500? Bet they're worth a bit these days.do they still make 2strokes?

It was a hybrid. I bought is as a heap and rebuilt it. It's part H1 and part KH500. Not that there's a huge difference. I had H1 sidepanels that were a bit too battered, so the KLH500 items went on. It had ported H1 barrels, skimmed heads, bigger carb jets and Denco track boxes (spannies). It was quick!

There may be a few small two stroke Japanese bikes still in production, but nothing significant that I'm aware of.

[Arkless Electronics]

It was a hybrid. I bought is as a heap and rebuilt it. It's part H1 and part KH500. Not that there's a huge difference. I had H1 sidepanels that were a bit too battered, so the KLH500 items went on. It had ported H1 barrels, skimmed heads, bigger carb jets and Denco track boxes (spannies). It was quick!

There may be a few small two stroke Japanese bikes still in production, but nothing significant that I'm aware of.

So how quick was it? :eyebrows: I had my RD250 air cooled Yam tuned to the point of doing 108. The acceleration was so fierce that mates with 750's used to ask for goes on it for the rush! Fuel consumption was truly horrific...

[Pieoftheday]

I had an AR125 when I was 17,I pretended it was a gpz900:rolleyes:

[Pieoftheday]

So how quick was it? :eyebrows: I had my RD250 air cooled Yam tuned to the point of doing 108. The acceleration was so fierce that mates with 750's used to ask for goes on it for the rush! Fuel consumption was truly horrific...

Jez,just a few months ago on eBay there was two rd250's for sale,one had 1mile on it£6000 and one with no miles £9000, in Italy I think,these were LC's though

[Arkless Electronics]

Jez,just a few months ago on eBay there was two rd250's for sale,one had 1mile on it£6000 and one with no miles £9000, in Italy I think,these were LC's though

:eek: It reminds me of the passing years when I think that bikes I well remember as the latest high tech new kid on the block are now appreciating classics....

[walpurgis]

So how quick was it? :eyebrows: I had my RD250 air cooled Yam tuned to the point of doing 108. The acceleration was so fierce that mates with 750's used to ask for goes on it for the rush! Fuel consumption was truly horrific...

My mate had a tidy Suzuki GS750, which he thought was the dog's wotsits and he looked at my Kwaka and said "I'd piss all over that little thing". I said nothing and tossed him the keys. He was gone about twenty minutes. When he returned and got off the Kwaka, he just said, "fucking hell! I've never ridden anything like that". I knew I'd get a reaction something like that, 'cos I'd already tried his GS750 and knew it was a plodder in comparison.

[Arkless Electronics]

My mate had a tidy Suzuki GS750, which he thought was the dog's wotsits and he looked at my Kwaka and said "I'd piss all over that little thing". I said nothing and tossed him the keys. He was gone about twenty minutes. When he returned and got off the Kwaka, he just said, "fucking hell! I've never ridden anything like that". I knew I'd get a reaction something like that, 'cos I'd already tried his GS750 and knew it was a plodder in comparison.

:D About what I'd of expected! I also once had a mildly tuned GT380 Suzuki. It was too heavy, under braked etc to be really useful but the sound of the triple Allspeeds was intoxicating enough :eyebrows:

[Pieoftheday]

:eek: It reminds me of the passing years when I think that bikes I well remember as the latest high tech new kid on the block are now appreciating classics....

Aye, Padgett's in Batley had a gpz900 not so long back,zero miles I think,or very close to it £14000:eek:

[Arkless Electronics]

Aye, Padgett's in Batley had a gpz900 not so long back,zero miles I think,or very close to it £14000:eek:

Bloody hell! I wouldn't have thought even a zero miles one was worth that much.... I guess it was about the first of the "modern" "plastic rocket ships" so in that much it could be a classic :scratch:

[walpurgis]

:D About what I'd of expected! I also once had a mildly tuned GT380 Suzuki. It was too heavy, under braked etc to be really useful but the sound of the triple Allspeeds was intoxicating enough :eyebrows:

Here's my GT550A.

http://i64.tinypic.com/5ohti.jpg

Bought new in 1979. It was a bit slow comnpared to the Kwaka. Nice enough bike though.

[Arkless Electronics]

Mine had the Frank Dyson (IIRC) one piece tank and bodywork on it... which looked the part but went over the original tank so made it even heavier! It blew a hole in the centre piston coming back from the South West custom and classic bike show to London and I got shot of it...

[Pieoftheday]

Bloody hell! I wouldn't have thought even a zero miles one was worth that much.... I guess it was about the first of the "modern" "plastic rocket ships" so in that much it could be a classic :scratch:

Back in the day they were the dogs wosnames around the isle of man, I don't think the looks age well,looked like a cheap plastic barge.my dad had a Kawasaki zephr 750, amongst others, gutless and bouncy,but made him happy and made me smile every time I rode it

[PaulStewart]

If it's a Yaqin it'll work fine, but won't sound very good. The original Musical Fidelity X-10D is cheap enough on eBay and sounds way better. I've compared them.


+1 to that, and the X10-D with some beeter valves and caps can be really quite special if coupled with a passive pre to make a buffered passive.

[Pieoftheday]

+1 to that, and the X10-D with some beeter valves and caps can be really quite special if coupled with a passive pre to make a buffered passive.

But the yaqin does sound good:)