alexberger
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| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Hi @lewm ,People think that belt drive is a black magic, technically perfect solution.You just need a heavy platter on a good bearing and you have very low, inaudible level of Wow and flutter. But it doesn’t work this way. At least, mid-price belt... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Hi @thuchan ,Yes, 3 motor belt drive solutions like Audio Note or Clear Audio have to be technically excellent in term of Wow and flutter.I didn’t listen these turntables at my home. They are out of my budget.I listened 3 motor Clear Audio in othe... | |
| Are integrated amps technically better than separates? Hi @atmasphere , Each amplification stage, capacitor and cable add distortions and noise.All those gain stages are in an integrated amp too. Usually though you have a greater chance of lower noise with separates since crosstalk and intermodulation... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Hi @mijostyn ,I had Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck and Lenco L78.I used a heavy 20kg plywood plinth with Lenco and vintage SME 3009 mk2 tonearm.With the same cartridge Lenco had:Better bass, better separation better PRAT.In term of dynamic and tone... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Here is Anatoly Markovich Liknitsky article where he compares idler and belt drive.Sorry for a bad translation from Russian language."Why is an idler drive better than a belt drive? If you focus only on reducing rumble, the Belt really has an unde... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive IMHO belt drive have a huge drawback that idler drive and DD don’t have.Belt drive doesn’t hold speed stabile and as result ruins the PRAT.And it is much more important drawback than bearing noise.No PRAT - no music! | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive In belt drive, you need to have everything ideal, otherwise the speed is floating.A freqsion of needle, and bearing decrease the speed, the motor doesn't control the platter but tries to hold a speed constant and it makes a belt tension change an... | |
| Are integrated amps technically better than separates? On one hand, in integrated you can make signal path shorter. Especially in low power SET amplifier. You can build 2A3 or 45 amplifier using only 2 stages or 300B with only 3 stages.In separates you need more stages and more interconnect cables. Ea... | |
| MHDT Orchid or Lampizator Amber 3? Did anyone compare SR Orange to SR Blue fuses? | |
| Is there such a thing as too much power? Hi @agwca ,It is not true. Every particular room has the parameter Critical Distance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_distance "Critical distance is, in acoustics, the distance at which the sound pressure level of the direct sound D and the... | |
| Is there such a thing as too much power? Hi @bob0398 ,Most of speakers (Tannoy, Klipsch,...) have overstate sensitivity specification. Even vintage speakers like my Altec 604E have 102dB/m by spec, but in real live just ~97-98dB.On other hand a lot of tube amplifiers sound slow. It happe... | |
| Is there such a thing as too much power? Hi @larryi ,I'm not against to use, for example, small monitor speakers with sensitivity ~88-90dB/1W in 100-150 sq ft room. But in this combination even 300B SET will be enough.I think the very popular but wrong way to do - using big low sensitivi... | |
| Is there such a thing as too much power? What I hate most in audio industry - when producers, sellers and reviewers are selling cheap stuff with expensive price tag and try to brainwash people that this cheap stuff is exclusive and expensive.Audiophile you have to know -Low sensitive spe... | |
| Is there such a thing as too much power? All this super power amplification is worthless. It overheat driver voice coil caused to increasing drivers impedance and huge dynamic compression. It is even worse - this dynamic compression has memory, because driver voice coil can't be coole... | |
| Is there such a thing as too much power? For me all dynamic speakers that need more power that gives EL34 push-pull amplifier have compressed sound.You can use 1000 Watt amplifier with these speaker but it wouldn't change this character. |