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| Why do I need power management if I have a great power cord? @atmasphere do you have experience with your amps benefiting from using the two example of power conditioning units that you mentioned? Yes. @atmasphere great discussion of these two power conditioners. I wonder 2 things: 1. How much load... | |
| Why do I need power management if I have a great power cord? I guess, what I wonder, is if some “power conditioning” devices still may add value. If passive devices, it can, and will be marginal. I’m going to research more into the 240 V option that makes sense. Does anybody else know anything about t... | |
| CLASS D MONO AMPS buy ATMASPHERE MUSIC SYSTEMS Put another way, we want the amp to be able to run at full power indefinitely. | |
| Low Level Listening and Distortion I believe in the past you said you like to be able to listen to music at louder volumes and it not sound too loud. @bhvf That's not exactly right. What I've often said is that its the mark of a good system that it can play at high volume withou... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... The fundamental error of Julian Hirsch, and most 'Alikists' is believing there is a correlation between a static measurement and a complex dynamic process. At best there is a Venn diagram-like overlap. Another poster mentioned that no component c... | |
| Why do I need power management if I have a great power cord? Power cords obey Ohm’s Law. Voltage drops across them can cause a very measurable loss of power in an amplifier. In that manner it can affect distortion and output impedance too. The voltage drop is easy to measure with a regular digital voltmete... | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) What have you been able to glean about the long term reliability of class D amps, what goes wrong, and what is the result? Electrolytic caps last longer if they have a charge on them and they are not subjected to heat. WRT the other parts used... | |
| CLASS D MONO AMPS buy ATMASPHERE MUSIC SYSTEMS Can you make a higher power amp with this module or is it limited to output as designed? We can, but we're holding it to a rather high standard: At present, the amp can sit at full power with a sine wave input all day long- something you simply... | |
| CLASS D MONO AMPS buy ATMASPHERE MUSIC SYSTEMS Well, those inefficient speakers will flourish with more powerful and higher quality and affordable class D amps. Maybe. But its a simple fact that with less efficiency comes more thermal compression. Its also a simple fact that if you make a p... | |
| Low Level Listening and Distortion In other words, a "clean" sounding amp (think stereotypical class D) 'Stereotypical class D'?? IME class D amps vary more in sound from one to another than all tube amps. It sounds like you are talking about that 'first watt', which has to be ... | |
| Tube amp question While I agree with you that a tester that cannot properly test a KT150- shows the limits of the tester, ( BTW, yours- nor any Hickok- I am aware of can test these tubes--and your KT88 spec is no good for them) it also points to the fact that they... | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) @petaluman As you might expect I have read Nelson's article before. He addresses the issue of poles in the amplifier caused by adding more stages of gain and how that adversely affects the use of feedback. I addressed that issue in my first post ... | |
| Tube amp question @falconquest Plate voltage is the voltage on the tube from cathode (usually at or near ground) to the plate of the tube. The plate is exactly what it sounds like; it receives electrons that flow from the cathode. The audio signal is imposed by the... | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) That analogy doesn't hold water, if you see what I did there. | |
| Tube amp question KT150's require 600 volts at the plate. @daveyf @falconquest This statement is false. If you look at the tube's specs you'll see that for class A operation (single tube) 400V is recommended. This would be the most current you would want to... |