antigrunge2
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| SET vs OTL @pani,touché: your description is dead-on. That said all but the best SETs suffer from their transformers: it usually sounds like there has been a cushion put on the music; yes, the flow is there but it somewhat sounds muffled and damped. Other th... | |
| Looking for preamp which is good at BOTH single-ended AND balanced output Try finding a used Graaf 13.5BII, you‘ll get both and be hard pressed finding a better preamp | |
| SET vs OTL 👌 on the DeVores! | |
| CD v Streamed If you get sweeter highs from vinyl, more likely than not your digital replay is affected by RFI/EMI or imperfect clocking. Absent those two, distortion levels on vinyl will always be higher and dynamic range lower. Fixes include ethernet filters,... | |
| Apple Music Anything other than lossless has no future. With 5g rollout there won‘t be anyfurther bandwidth constraints and hence no reason for compressed formats | |
| SET vs OTL BTW, both on OTLs and on SETs low capacitance speaker cables are clearly preferable, think Shindo or similar | |
| SET vs OTL P.P.SThe French company might have been Jadis or Audioaero, both of which build good amps. | |
| SET vs OTL P.S. Push pull designs and SETs are very different, The overtone characteristics of SETs make for a much more nuanced and colourful sound. The differences tend to be most pronounced via horn designs. Obviously pp is higher output. | |
| SET vs OTL @audition_audio,the higher the impedance, the better for OTLs. On the Graaf, the autoformers gave a marked improvement to going without. Old speakers used to be 16 ohms which would be ideal for OTls, however most modern designs have impedance dips... | |
| SET vs OTL My speakers are Duevel Bella Lunas with 6 ohms impedance and 93db efficiency. To run the Graaf I used Paul Speltz Autoformers to step them up. I used Bybee Golden Goddess Speaker Bullets in both instances and Auditorium23 speaker cable. | |
| SET vs OTL I have used a Graaf Gm20 for about 10 years before upgrading to a Wavac Ec300b some 10 years ago. In short, there is no going back: while the Graaf had twice the stated output power, making that power useful was challenging: using autoformers to i... | |
| Banned in Audiogon? +1 on the value of atmashere‘s contributions and I run a Wavac amp! | |
| What SQ value does a high end stereo preamp add to a network player? The Lumin has a good attenuator, there is no discerible benefit from adding a pre since the output voltage of the Lumin is more than enough | |
| USB Galvanic Isolation? I run the Intona Reference from Isolator to Dac and an Oyaide Pure Silver Continental 5s from Server to Isolator. If I swap them around, things go pear-shaped: loss of soundstage, harshness and bass. FYI the Intona is only 25 cm and the Oyaide 50 ... | |
| USB Galvanic Isolation? Intona Isolator and USB cable. No Dac gets the same result through internal means |