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| MoFi controversy @rauliruegas After what I posted here : do you still think that I must return the caps to the woofers crossover? As @theaudioamp pointed out, some music may sound alright but other music may not; its likely the speakers will be less neutral d... | |
| MoFi controversy Which kind of problems could be to appear in the woofer or amps @rauliruegas Many woofers break up at higher frequencies. The breakups are great in a blues guitar amps but they really aren’t good for hifi. Breakups are portions of the cone th... | |
| MoFi controversy My last move was to take out the caps in the speaker woofers crossover and left only the pure silver ribbon inductor and I will try to do the same with the speaker tweeter silk dome. At the end the best cap is no cap at all. @rauliruegas One im... | |
| Looking for a preamp with XLR connections While balanced and differential circuits are usually superior, it is not universally so. I’ve seen measurements of at least half a dozen products for which the single-ended connections resulted in the same or better performance than the balanced ... | |
| MoFi controversy After Ampex/Quantegy went out of business, I had questions whether I could tolerate the sound of new tape... some of it sounds worse than PCM recording - just my opinion. @moonwatcher Tape does not have much of a 'sound'. Tape technology does. ... | |
| Solid state or Tubes preamp phono stage. @bigmac1963 Here's something to try: Put both preamps side by side. Do not use any loading on the cartridge other than the stock 47KOhms. Use the same LP and listen to both. Does one of them seem to play more surface noise than the other or soun... | |
| Lowering Tube power amp output @tubelvr1 The more powerful you make a tube amp (unless its an OTL) the more limited its bandwidth becomes, due to the output transformer. What this means is that for the most part smaller tube amps sound better (except for OTLs where bigger ones... | |
| Looking for a preamp with XLR connections We've been doing balanced line preamps for home audio longer than anyone else. We did it because if you support the balanced line standard, you can get off of the interconnect cable game and not have to worry about their 'sound'. It didn't occur ... | |
| MoFi controversy I made the same mistake FWIW... | |
| Class D amplifier with TPA 3250 board As long as you don't push them too hard, it can be a bit surprising how good many of these little amps can actually sound. Of course then you start to wonder how good it can get... In our own work on class D amps (we have a design entirely our own... | |
| MoFi controversy @blisshifi I'm sure they work fine! As with all things, so much in digital depends on execution. I would not expect any greater dynamic range if you are dealing with sources that use compression to begin with. But you might have greater resolution. | |
| MoFi controversy Anyway, it seems like one of their advantages is process, apart from custom made Tim de Paravicini analog paths (probably preamps, amps and modifications to the lathe?). They are able to cut an acetate, have it plated and pressed and listen to it... | |
| MoFi controversy The rep also stated that they would even occasionally go to the trouble of ’baking’ the master to improve the transfer ( which at the time i thought as odd). @daveyf Baking the tape is done to chase water molecules out of the polyester tape bac... | |
| Class D amplifier with TPA 3250 board As far at the argument that an amp was tested and it was 10 percent distortion??? @timlub That came from the specs published by the manufacturer of the chips: TA2024 10% at full power (10W) TA2020 10% at full power (13W) TA2022 10% at full p... | |
| MoFi controversy Most lathes preview the a digital file which allows the lathe to cut within its safe parameters. All analog cuts that turn out great might be "minor miracles". I'm sure @atmasphere can explain the preview process better. The preview process i... |