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by Paul Barker
Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:04 am
Forum: Speakers
Topic: lightnin' hopkins experience speakers
Replies: 140
Views: 47720

It is a useful and succinctly put discource. Though a single secondary makes a transformer have less leakage inductance this application for multi driver speakers makes best use of a multi tap secondary. The best multi option secondary can't be this flexible, because you have to hard wire all the se...
by Paul Barker
Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:30 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: j-FET / Triode Phono front-end
Replies: 287
Views: 174632

This half belongs here and saves me searching the Owston thread. I may get time to build a two stage passive battery (and actually heated with batteries) tube phono stage with MC lift via a Wearite transformer. Whether I manage stereo is another matter. The purpose of which is to show the entire opp...
by Paul Barker
Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:15 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Cisco
Replies: 24
Views: 10497

No problem. Still clueless as to how Cisco got there. Why it matters to me is because the computer has about doubled in speed since I uninstalled it, which worries me that maybe an outside party was hacking my computer.
by Paul Barker
Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:21 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Spam, spam, spam
Replies: 21
Views: 8288

and of course ladies from Kiev and further east all looking for true lurvvvvve. funnily enough my divorsee friend is dating the Russian wife of another friend (who is in jail). He said to me "she's the best I've ever had!". If that is of any use to you when deciding what to do about these...
by Paul Barker
Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:06 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: 2a3 amp
Replies: 288
Views: 97879

If it lessens the pain at all I killed a 350v WKZ because I forgot for a minute what I was doing. It happens to us all. I haven't had a WKZ die which was treated right though, so people don't have to expect trouble from them. you can expect trouble from vintage PIO's, all the time. They leak a black...
by Paul Barker
Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:03 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: 2A3 Monoblocks
Replies: 400
Views: 119807

Yes once the amp is in a neat box it is best not to touch it. I find you need all elements visible and touchable by voltmeter probes when experiementing. Once it's in a box you can only reach some of it but never enough of it. I was thinking about using your Ant's box he made me. but what I will pro...
by Paul Barker
Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:47 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: 2a3 amp
Replies: 288
Views: 97879

firstly remove the cap (if not just a stupid connection). Since it only decouples the driver from the output stage. So with the cap removed the voltages should go normal (if the dropper resistor is intact after your abuse of it.) the buzzing is the inductive components due to the extra current pulle...
by Paul Barker
Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:39 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Cisco
Replies: 24
Views: 10497

Ray P wrote:Kies is a samsung application for syncing samsung mobile devices.

Ray
Yes I do know that since I installed it,which is why I asked if it could behave as a VPN since I have not loaded anyyhing else which requires access to my computer.

I tjink Larwence may be right could it be a hacker?
by Paul Barker
Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:35 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Cisco
Replies: 24
Views: 10497

I use Ubuntu 100% of time these days. It is much better for the amateur than it ever was. Far superior to a junked up Windows, and a little better than a fresh windows install. I don't like Wine though. But I am able at least to use TDSL in wine so I have all I need that must use windows. There are...
by Paul Barker
Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:02 am
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2710
Views: 1209418

Even a galaxy 2 hasnt got a big enough osk for my fingers.
by Paul Barker
Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:59 am
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2710
Views: 1209418

At our family gatherings it is my daughter 17 and sister in law who run the verbals. Though there are 5 males and 2 more females ig is quite clear if we start a thread we receive a witherig look and our thread is quickly hooked by an alpha female taken out of the water and left on the bank to dry up...
by Paul Barker
Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:41 pm
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2710
Views: 1209418

Penelope, a devote Catholic, had passed away. The priest conducted her eulogy with heartfelt gusto. "Penelope married and had 13 children. Her husband died. She married again and had 7 more children. Again, her husband died. But, she married yet again and this time had 5 more children. Again, h...
by Paul Barker
Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:35 pm
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2710
Views: 1209418

A lad comes home from school and excitedly tells his dad that he had a part in the school play and he was playing a man who had been married for 25 years. The dad says, "Never mind son, maybe next year you'll get a speaking part."
by Paul Barker
Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:20 am
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: j-FET / Triode Phono front-end
Replies: 287
Views: 174632

As I understand it, the real difference lies in the physics of the phase change (group delay?) the filter imposes upon the signal..... Using an L and a C the two effects, leading and lagging, are balanced so neither current nor voltage leads or lags, the upshot is a constant impedance for the drive...
by Paul Barker
Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:16 am
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: j-FET / Triode Phono front-end
Replies: 287
Views: 174632

Yes, I agree the low impedance RC networks seem to sound better than the high impedance ones, though as yet I am unsure if that is due to the network or the choice of valves used to drive them. However I (and others) think the important point about the LCR topology is that the network is a constant...