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I really like the Chinook, have had a lot of fun listening to it so far, I think you'll be pretty pleased. Are you going to try any different tubes in it? I asked Kevin at Upscale Audio about it and he told me that all of his customers have been so happy with the stock tubes that they haven't done any rolling.
- Buck
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Library: Speakers: Avalon Acoustics Isis, Subwoofers: (2) REL Acoustics 212SE Amplification: D’agostino Momentum preamplifier, D’agostino S250 stereo amplifier Digital: dCS Rossini CD/SACD transport, dCS Rossini DAC/streamer/master clock. Analog: Brinkmann Taurus table, Lyra Etna Lambda, Audio Research Ref. Phono 3 |
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The stock tubes are ok, put some Amperex 7308s in there and it will be a night and day experience.
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I've been aware of tube rolling for many years now but never had a piece of tube equipment to actually get my hands dirty with. And now that I have something on the way, I have been doing more serious research on the subject.
My thoughts are pretty simple; Manley designed and tested this phono stage with these particular tubes. I'll live with that for a while until the inevitable bug hits me at which point I'll narrow down which set of 7308s would best suite me. I'm pretty excited about this new addition. :-) |
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My chinook started letting out random very loud pops, wating to her from manley service, anyone else hear of this?
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Generally with tube amps, loud pops are indicative of a small-signal tube going bad (VERY bad). Had that happen to me with some old 12BH7 tubes in a Heathkit W5 amp. I'd replace the tubes immediately.
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Thats exactly what I thought. Tried 3 sets, still pops, swapped in SS no pops. Think it may be something other than the tubes.
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Hope you can get me going in the correct direction. Kind of new to the "real" world of vinyl (you know MC, MM loading ((loading what? ))some type of fish thingy(Chinook) ??? phono stage etc>
I like to play vinyl for all the reasons you folks do. But I'm at a loss with all the stuff mentioned above. Right now I have a semi low level system --- MC2300, VPI classic 1, WW silver ICs and a Ortofhon 2MM black cart. Do I need to upgrade all my stuff just to get more juice out of the records or can I upgrade a thing or two. Or am I at a good level now with the gear I have???? Thanks Ed
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Either way, Manley should be able to shed light on this. Hope you get a quick resolution! |
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Had a similar problem but it was the power supply. Manly came back with "We have seen a few failures of the power supply diodes (1N4000 series)." This was the problem with mine. Don't let it go on as it blew my Transformer and so the cost of repair went UP seeing I had to get it into AUS through the aus distributor that has now dumped Manly thanks goodness & we now have a good supportive distributor.
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