atmasphere
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| Fancy Fuse for Regenerator? I'm seeking opinions if this is a great place because the benefits will go to all my equipment, or if it's a waste because the power is regenerated anyway. My prediction is that if you listen carefully you'll find no difference at all owing to... | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? Where are two Swarm subs positioned in relation to the CAL T-3's? One is placed against the wall (with the driver facing the wall) to my left. The other is behind me and to the right- it too has its driver facing the wall; in both cases to insu... | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? That was a bit elusive, yes. I tried to touch upon that using a sub setup the way I outlined as being my preference is a matter of having a different "design" goal - i.e.: high-passing the mains fairly high to a pair of subs, (the need for) symme... | |
| Dustcover Blues My problem is occuring just above the cutoff frequency. @mijostyn Filter theory says that the greater the filter slope, the greater the hump is prior to cutoff- and the closer to the cutoff frequency. A digital filter might behave differently (... | |
| Speakers for a Large Room (20’x37’) One other option, sort of off the beaten path is the Classic Audio Reproductions line. We've done ballrooms with the Classic Audio Loudspeakers T-1 and T-3. With that room size using those speakers I'd recommend 100 watts if you plan to crank i... | |
| A pitch too High! Why do you guys want me to buy a new Grado stylus. I'm was not suggesting any such thing. I misread the situation and had thought you got a different cartridge and thus solved the problem. Re-reading I see now that it was gauge instead. Eithe... | |
| Tube dampener questions I then purchased a 1960s d getter tube input/driver tube and the tube dampener became a moot point. The new tube sounded better and I don't feel the need to apply a dampener. Was I really hearing microphonics? I don't know but that tube is bac... | |
| RCA 9289 tube amplifiers I brought the amp up slow on a Variac and it passed sine wave. That's good! Don't keep running it until the power supply has been refurbished. Otherwise running it is a classic way that a failing filter capacitor causes a power transformer to ... | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? That's dangerously arrogant. You're not acknowledging the alternative, which is conspicuous in itself, and I doubt you've had a pair of symmetrically-to-the-mains placed horn subs or other efficient, large 6th order bandpass ditto (from a point o... | |
| A pitch too High! What should one look for? It should look nice and smooth like you see of photos of syli online. It sits on a little platform of sorts and should be perpendicular to it. Usually they are swaged or glued in. I'm thinking there may be an issue wit... | |
| Best Tube PreAmp - McIntosh vs. Audio Research vs. VAC vs. Atma-Sphere The MP1 is among the top 4 of my list. What's the life of various tubes in MP1, number of tubes/ models, and how expensive they're? Does certain tubes have to be replaced in set? @hitsofmisses None of the tubes are stressed so they last a lon... | |
| A pitch too High! @terrible +1 It might be interesting to look at the stylus of that Grado with a microscope. | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? but simply that all mayn’t cry ’halleluja’ over the sonic outcome of the DBA approach, even after being preconditioned by theory. You can look at this as theory or fact; works the same regardless: at 80Hz the waveform is about 14 feet long. The... | |
| Best Tube PreAmp - McIntosh vs. Audio Research vs. VAC vs. Atma-Sphere I think the prospect of not burning through tubes while watching TV/movies outweighs whatever you might lose in sound quality for watching video. But, that’s me. I get that, but you can get thousands of hours out of the tubes. If you spend th... | |
| Suggestions for high efficiency speakers? That would be a great option indeed. What’s the price of these? @phusis I’m not sure even though we’ve used them at shows quite a bit. You might inquire with John at CAL. It’s not the price, really, but size. That is: few pre-assembled high... |