atmasphere
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| Amp search A crossover to match levels? Don't think I understand. As long as gain on both amps is the same, the levels will also be the same. There’s nothing wrong the my current amp btw. @lukaszwk It may not be as simple as that. Plan B is to get a passi... | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse @celo unless you have really top notch electronics with a lot of power, you may well have dodged a bullet on that one. | |
| Faint buzz in speakers In fact, it is so faint you have to place your ear right up against the cone to hear it. @jmfinney As @yoyoyaya and @herman have pointed out, there's nothing wrong with the amp. With most speakers and most amps, if you put your ear against the ... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre One of the engineers at ATC was an intern with us, when he left it was to go to California to work at ATC. @ei001h If you get the active version, it has a balanced input that conforms to the balanced standard, AES48. A lot of high end audio balan... | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse @celo , those speakers need a lot of power (+150 Watts) and it should be clean power. They can play deep bass, but from all the feedback we have on that speaker, you need just the right amp to do it. | |
| Any US manufacturer of a 845 SET amplifier This causes me pause as my 93db/6ohm speakers might be on the edge. @decooney You are correct. In most rooms with speakers of that efficiency you’ll want more like 50 to 100 Watts. SETs, if zero feedback (and most are), have only about 20-25% u... | |
| Amp search @lukaszwk 32 dB is the problem. The less power an amp has, the more likely the gain will be less too, since its more likely to be used on more sensitive speakers. So amps of the power level in which you are interested are more likely to have 22-... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital --my darTZeel 468 mono blocks have a ’peak watt’ output (the value holds for 8 seconds after) read out on the front face. it’s very easy to see with your eyes how all analog vinyl has higher peaks than digital with the same recording played back ... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode I wonder if the output transformer of amplifier with the triode/UL option is optimized equally for both modes, or if the default is to design for best operation in UL, then simply switch the screens to pair with the plates of the output tubes (us... | |
| After 20 years, in the market for a power amp Sandy Gross the designer of the speakers used a tube amp in his personal system. They sounded fantastic with tubes. Sandy is a customer of ours. The Khartago, while wholly competent, has long since since been bypassed by the rest of my gear.... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil I don't see why this is a question. There's no problem having enough gain with either tube or solid state with the cartridges mentioned. As long as the input of the phono section is properly designed its plug and play; no need for an SUT. If you ... | |
| Right channel phono stage tube goes noisy When I swap the left and right channel tubes, the noise goes to the left channel. @earthtones This statement suggests that the tubes you installed in the channel in question were in fact defective. I've never seen a fault that could cause a tu... | |
| Tube selection 12AT7 and 12AX7 - preamp Regardless of the brand or source, when you use tubes in high performance tube equipment the tubes should be vetted. They should test good on a tester and then they have to be auditioned for noise, microphonics and crackling. If these things are ... | |
| Help find an amp for Soundly speakers @jchiappinelli We showed with Dynastats at the summer CES in Chicago in the early 90s. We used our 60 Watt M-60 amplifiers, which had far more power than we could use in that room. So I think you don’t need a particularly powerful amplifier but ... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode :) and now that turns out to not be your experience. Kinda makes my point. |