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February 13, 2003

300B Tube

Filed under: Tube — Spencer @ 11:31 pm

Everyone should own a 300B amplifier once in a life!  I am one of them.  This is quite a big and costy project and I use all the good stuff that I can afford at the time – Lundahl transformers, choke, Jensen Cap, Elna caps, Multi-cap, Rifa cap, telfon wires and Full Music 300B tube etc…  Total spend on that is about US$1200!

Full music tube is lack of bass.  Recently I buy a Quiguang 4300B and the bass is much better and firm.  The 4300B cost about US$120 per pair.  I think 300B to drive mid and high frequency is one of the best sound amplifier!

Update: Oct 1st, 2010

The 300B was upgraded with Russian PIOs, see first picture.  FFT measurement is attached below:

FFT 300B final

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June 7, 2002

Denon DVD-3800 modification

Filed under: Sources — Spencer @ 3:37 pm

I once owned a Denon DVD-3800 and I had modified the output with a transformer Lundahl 1527 to couple the analogy signal.  This proven that transformer only change the sonic a bit but cannot improve the overall performance!  This is something like changing a signal cable or a socket.

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October 6, 2001

Denon DCD-1520

Filed under: Sources — Spencer @ 6:36 pm

This was my first CD Player back in 198X period.  This is a 20bit machine using PCM64P, NE5532 and NE5534.  I have done a lot of tweaking on this CD player until the laser head is too old to play CD.  See the record of my tweak in the photos.

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October 14, 2000

Celestion SL6

Filed under: Speaker — Spencer @ 8:58 pm

Back in over 20 years, I own a pair of Celestion SL6 speaker.  It was a very difficult load speaker and not many power amplifier can drive it well.  I have Quad 405 at that time but this speaker is still hungry for power!  In the last few years, I use this speaker as my test speaker when I build my amplifiers.  This is the only picture that I have left for this speaker.

Even my pair of Celestion SL6 is gone, my brother still keep a pair of SL6si.

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