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| Researching SET Amps what’s important in an SET amp: 1) Power tube mating to the proper speaker, and 2) Design and manufacture of the transformer. The first question isn’t a thing. You don’t mate a power tube to a particular speaker, unless you’re talking about to... | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? Sound reinforcement systems don't have pre-speaker-amp "preamps" as a concept even. Of course they do! The preamp is known as a 'mixer'. ******************************* There are four functions a preamp provides: 1) provide input switching ... | |
| Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio? An amplifier would have to be deficient, defective, or broken for this claim and assertion to be accurate. A lot depends on the amplifier! In this case it was a tube amplifier. Tube amps have a filament circuit and when the voltage on the fila... | |
| Tube Amp settings: Triode vs UL; 8 ohm vs. 4 ohm ? Utralinear uses a very specific point on the primary winding where the screen tap is placed in order to get the best linearity- in which case the linearity curve looks like any DHT triode. For triode operation the load on the tube changes (usuall... | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? If you run short cables you can get away with this. But if you have monoblocks (which are useful for keeping your speaker cables as short as possible) then no so well. I've found that using balanced connections to the monoblocks and having short s... | |
| Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio? Is there that much of a difference between 117 V and 121 V coming through your system? I've seen a 3 volt change like that rob an amp of 40 watts of power. But a conditioner does more than that- a good one will provide a clean AC waveform, thus... | |
| Question about Class A This may not help, but it depends. If you have efficient horn loaded speakers > 95 dB/watt-meter, you may hear a difference. ...Or not. My speakers are 98dB and we make class A amps; we also make class D amps and they sound very similar. C... | |
| Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio? @chungjh I think you'll find that the P20 does a better job. The Tourus lacks active circuitry and if you look at their website you'll see that they don't have a spec for distortion on the output waveform. FWIW, if you want to know if a given pow... | |
| Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio? @chungjh We have a P20 and customers running the P15. The P20 easily supports our smaller amps and the rest of the system. We've also worked with the Elgar power conditioners and have customers running those. Some of them are so large you can lite... | |
| Question about Class A don’t listen to anyone who says that a properly made class D amp has the qualities you seem to seek. A, A/B, D etc. each have a flavor. Although some A/B are biased for a handful of watts at the top. IME You can't judge any amplifier by its cl... | |
| Cartridge incompatibility, Soundsmith and Luxman @audiojan You might want to take a look at this website http://hagtech.com/loading Since your cartridge is a low output, scroll down to where the low output calculator is. I dropped the values of your cartridge (2.75mH) and input load (0.1KOhms... | |
| CLASS D MONO AMPS buy ATMASPHERE MUSIC SYSTEMS I'm asking because I wonder if these 100 watt class D monos have enough testicular fortitude to drive <89 dB efficient speakers with grunt and authority. I would completely understand if you chose not to answer the above question ;) General... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe He however, is squarely in the SET camp and suggested Quests given my price range and need for a dedicated power amp. @scottya118 SETs have this way of more and more limited bandwidth as you increase power. Usually this means 7-8 Watts (usually... | |
| Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio? I am referring to the regenerator from PS audio not a power conditioner. Your reference to me being false is not accurate. If you have a stable voltage from your outlet you don’t need a source of addl power offered by the PS audio 15. @jumia ... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe Just to be clear since the K's are in a larger room (approx 30 x 12) you would prefer a push pull configuration. Definitely! In a room like that I'd want 50-60 watts. Also you might consider a subwoofer system to break up standing waves in the ... |