alexberger
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dallas Wind Symphony, Frederick Fennell - Dmitri Shostakovich - The Age Of Gold: Polka | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Hi @mijostyn , Lenco Turntable is a genius piece of Swiss engineering. If you add heavy plinth and upgraded tonearm it over performs any mid priced belt drive turntable. One of my friends who had used dozens of great turntables used Lenco L70 ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Hi @terry9 , Motor turns platter in jerks just in cheap DJ DD turntables like Technics 1200. Top Japanese and German DD don’t have this issue. For example, EMT 950 motor (DC PWM) works so smooth that is has super light platter. All lacker cutter... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other I had a Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck turntable for many years. Then I switched to vintage Lenco L78 on a heavy birch plywood plinth. I was amazed how much more accurately the Lenco idler drive conveys all the nuances of the rhythm compared to Not... | |
| Top resistors I did more comparison between Duelund Custom resistors and old "black" Mills in Altec crossover. In my case 7.5 Ohm resistor is connected to compression driver. At first I used 3.9 Ohm Duelund and 3.5 Ohm Mills in series. Then I changed it to sin... | |
| SET the best? Hi @mozartfan , 845 tube needs ~10KOhm output transformer that has more narrow bandwidth compared to 3.5K transformer for 300B, 5K transformer for 45 or 2.5K transformer for 2A3 tube. So, if you have high sensitive speakers in a small room I do... | |
| If a " system " cannot do this, I move on........ Hi @mrdecibel , Yes it is very important point you are talking about. The system which help you feel interpretation. But sadly most of audiophiles don’t care about it as well about natural instruments tone. Probably, because that, low sensitive... | |
| SET the best? One of the first versions of Altec 604 from 40x. | |
| SET the best? I want to add vintage speakers to the list, like: Altecs - VOT A5 A7, 19, Valencia, 604. Old Tannoy - Silver, Red. Old JBL L200. Used full range: Lowther, Klangfilm, Telefunken. New full range drivers like: Audio Nirvana, Lowther, Fostex,... | |
| SET the best? Hi @ron1264 , I'm not an expertise in Class D amplifiers. But all of them digital and PWM are very different from SET. For example, most of SET fans use high sensitive speakers like: horns or full range drivers. And they like these speakers not... | |
| SET the best? As ASIC chip designer I can add. For any chip production you need to produce millions of chips of this particular model. Otherwise you will lose a lot of money. For example, companies like Chord who made FPGA based DACs use FPGA for their custom D... | |
| SET the best? For me looks very weird that someone who was SET fan suddenly became digital amplifier fan. I can't say that SET are better or worth than digital amplifiers. But they are so different. These amplifiers topologies work best for completely different... | |
| Top resistors I built n-1500 crossover for Altec 604E. DIY Altec N1500A (audioheritage.org) I use constant resistors instead of potentiometers 36 Ohm and 7.5 Ohm. I also use resistors 1.2 Ohm - 1.8 Ohm for super tweeter crossover. I tried Duelund Regular and... | |
| Horn speakers are really bright? Here is a video with a new DIY n-1500 crossover: | |
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