atmasphere
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| Balanced Line Stage Tube Preamps All reviews I have read of the MP-3 says you DON"T offer silver or remotes! A recent development? The other limitation is lack of RCA inputs, @hickamore Silver has been available for about 10 years or so. The remote probably about 6-7 years. The ... | |
| Balanced versus single ended I recall replacing Silver Surfer XLRs with WireWorld Platinum Eclipse 8 - HUGE difference in quality. Im not inclined to A/B them at this point, though, it might eat at me. However, I used a sample Nano 45 graphene contact enhancer on the WWs, an... | |
| Balanced Line Stage Tube Preamps Your critique of ARC LS28SE/Rogue RP-9 welcome if offered. @hickamore ARC has never supported AES48. So that means to get the most out of them you have to audition cables and be careful about ground loops. This isn't any different from using a... | |
| Cartridge Loading.....Part II Why not? Consider the case to be an ideal current amp with the appropriate series resistance added so the input impedance is 5Ω. In this gedanken world the ideal voltage amp and the ideal current amp sound identical. It seems to me that you ... | |
| Question about speaker angle Keep in mind that toe in alters high frequency response, the level of side walls reflection, and the relationship of direct and early reflected sounds. ^^ This! +1 Early side wall reflections are interpreted by the ear as harshness. So you toe... | |
| GaN amps: Peachtree or LSA Voyager? I see an often quoted limit of 0.1% as being the absolute lowest than can be detected, and I think normally much higher. @deludedaudiophile If that were primarily lower ordered harmonics that could well be true. But otherwise that statement is... | |
| Amp Recommendations for Marantz 7c I recently acquired a Marantz 7 with intentions in setting up a second system that would be more or less a vintage set up. @c_cocobean I hope the work you are having done is having the power supply rebuilt in that preamp (or it was recently don... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions this is what I always wanted to hear! It only remains to experience it unless it is taken as faith @niodari Its easy enough to hear. You don't have to take it on faith. | |
| Balanced versus single ended That said, I do find differences in mfg XLR cables (including length of identical cables), which could be the XLRs themselves, and/or quality of solder/ joints, as well as the wire, shielding, jacketing... @tweak1 This is why I harp about AES48... | |
| Balanced Line Stage Tube Preamps @hickamore The Backert achieves its balanced line operation by the use of an output transformer. If you are going to use tubes to drive a balanced line, to my knowledge there are only two ways: an output transformer or a direct-coupled technique p... | |
| Is an unbalanced preamp a bad thing? The streamer i use recommends XLR, a lumen. So wtf should you do? I guess you need to buy really good RCA cables to address any deficiencies. And the rabbit hole gets deeper Of course one of the goals of balanced operation is to eliminate the ’... | |
| Cartridge Loading.....Part II The first question that needs to be addressed is in a perfect world with ideal amplification, will a 40Ω cartridge sound the same into a 5Ω load as a 47kΩ load? Right up to this point I was in agreement with the prior text of this post. With t... | |
| Is an unbalanced preamp a bad thing? Voice from the past...RCA connectors have been working fine since the 1940s. I'm going to guess it's got a few more decades left in it. 😀 XLRs have been around almost as long- back in the 1940s though they used barrier strips. | |
| GaN amps: Peachtree or LSA Voyager? The A/Bs I'm talking about are the Van Alstine DVA M225 monos. Surely you know Frank and his products. Care to comment on his matching GBP to feedback? There's no way to tell from the information on the web. But I can tell you this: in conventi... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions Hi Ralph: Do you any plans for a Class D preamp in the future? Technically that is possible but we've no plans currently. How one can know that it has "enough power"? Strange things happen. I have tried large Thiel speakers with a 200 watts c... |