atmasphere
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| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? I would sincerely suggest to the OP to listen to an example of a modern high negative feedback solid state amplifier as described above and compare its sound quality to the Renaissance 70/70 and be your own judge. I’m not convinced that the "mode... | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? There is always progress. But to answer your question: Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? The correct answer is ’no’. The single thing that has held back amplifier improvement is something called Gain Bandwidth Product (GBP... | |
| Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp Would it be fair to say (or infer) that some of these boutique fuses are somewhere along the arc between a bog standard fuse and those FNM fuses? That they are definitely a step up but still nowhere near a FNM fuse? That could be why we hear a di... | |
| Old Classic Receivers: A Mistake to Buy? Finding the right semiconductors can be a real challenge, in addition to all the failing electrolytic capacitors, of which there can be upwards of 100 in a larger receiver! There are a lot of Chinese knock-offs flooding ebay these days; these are ... | |
| Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp Cable is cable. Fuses are fuses. OAK is the only speaker finish. Class Ds suck. Why are you still using tubes? Concrete everything to the floor. Speaker spikes work. and the biggest of all, Come to AG and get a blast from the past. @helmholtzso... | |
| How does room correction treat multiple passive subwoofers? Since I don't ascribe to that religion @erik_squires Its not a religion- its based on physics. At 80Hz the waveform is 14 feet long; it takes 2-3 iterations before the ear can know its there and its frequency. By that time the waveform has b... | |
| Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp Inescapable FACT: No one understands exactly how electricity works. That’s why there’s so much Electrical THEORY. People risk their lives on electrical theory, just as they do the theory of flight. I suspect you might mean 'hypot... | |
| Cartridge Loading for a phono pre amp While mechanical impact does occur as a result of electrical load- there is some back emf necessarily generated by the signal current that affects the mechanical motion, but a quick back of the envelope calculation using Lenz’s law and the 10uH c... | |
| Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp None the less saying something is hogwash, is hogwash especially when it comes to cables and wire direction. It’s simple, cables sound and work differently in one direction than the other. The reason to condition cabling the direction it is pushe... | |
| Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp You never owned Bose 901s or have read why Amar Bose designed them that way, I'm guessing. @russ69 This is such a great example of what I'm talking about (the myth bit)! I'll put it to you this way: If someone comes up with a way to get home s... | |
| Fuse Direction for Pass Labs Amp and Preamp I am thinking that the direction should be the lettering left to right with the beginning of the lettering facing out of the amp and the end of the lettering facing into the amp. Does this sound right? @mitchb Not unless the fuses are in a DC... | |
| Cartridge Loading for a phono pre amp How does this concept affect the transimpedance phono amps? The input impedance is also known as 'virtual ground'. This is a point in any opamp circuit where the feedback is applied back to the input of the opamp. There is a resistor that also ... | |
| Cartridge Loading.....Part II Recommended loading is between 91ohms and 47kOhms determined by listening. @quincy I love that Lyra states things this way- Jonathon Carr is well aware of how differently phono sections behave when presented with the RFI generated by LOMC cartr... | |
| Thermal Distortion your loudspeaker most likely suffers from it. But do you care? If high efficiency speakers are so darned good, why did the industry move away from them? So electronics makers could sell more expensive Power? Methinks not. @ieales The industry moved away from higher efficiency because its expensive, when ... | |
| Cartridge Loading for a phono pre amp Raul is obfuscating. His contention is that loading has no effect on the compliance of the cartridge. I showed that it does. Since the amount of energy directly affects how much force it takes to move any generator by the direct proportion of e... |