atmasphere
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| How important is the pre-amp? Now I have long interconnects (balanced) between pre and power so I can see that I need something to drive that cable.I don't know of a preamp that cost only $1000 that supports the balanced standard. Since you are driving long cables what you mig... | |
| Bi-Amp Woofers with Class D? Works good.My speakers are full range to 20Hz but because there are standing waves in the room, no bass at the listening chair. I installed 2 extra subs, asymmetrically placed in the room, to break up the standing waves. They are driven by a class... | |
| Best replacements for KT99A tubes? @_rossbower The guitar industry is really what drives pentode power tube production. It does not want anything other than KT88s because there are so many vintage Marshalls around and guitar players on the road want to be able to find a tube if one... | |
| Why so many tubes? One would think after 117 years of evolution (1904, invention of the vacuum tube) and with only 4 other components involved (R, C, L, transformer) engineers would have reached the optimal configuration for a tube amplifier by now.But there’s an... | |
| Bought mono blocks, now spkr cables too long So maybe its a message to those destined for monos. A mono plus is shorter cables.It is. The advantage of monoblocks is short speaker cables- so you get more impact and greater resolution without adding brightness. | |
| HiFi vs MidFi They will swear to their almighty guru huckster that $10,000.00 vinyl rigs with $1000.00 vacuum cleaning machines sounds more organic & real than a $1500.00 digital rig despite SNAP CRACKLE POP still clearly dominating the sound..@freediver... | |
| Are Pre-Amps necessary? IME this always comes down to cables. I used to know this guy named Robert Fulton who, more than anyone else in the world, founded the high end audio cable industry. He had his special RCA cable that sounded better than the average Radio Shack cab... | |
| Single driver vs traditional 3 way loudspeakers Well I may have ead something in the descript about the odd spiked phase plug as helping eleiminate some beaming effect.It doesn't. It allows you to hear highs that you would not otherwise.That is why any 'full range' driver is nicely supplemented... | |
| Why so many tubes? Paralleling tubes or going push pull can increase power but also can muddy the sound. The word 'can' in the statement above prevents it from being false. Going PP can also **decrease** muddiness by decreasing distortion. The trick is to not combin... | |
| Class A into Class AB @itsjustme FWIW, 0.5 Ohms is a good assumption for an emitter resistor in an output section. 1 Ohm is not! | |
| Single driver vs traditional 3 way loudspeakers has that spiked center phase pulg which eliminates beaming.This conclusion is false. What the phase plug does is prevent cancellation from one side of the cone to the other, so the highs generated can actually be heard. It does not prevent beaming... | |
| Hagerman Audio Labs Humbucker This is to solve a very specific problem- hum when Grado and Rega are used together.Years ago I found a simpler method. The motor is ungrounded. So I ran a wire connected between the motor case and the tonearm ground. No more hum with the Grado ca... | |
| Looking for new speakers for large audio room Most of the speakers brands most of you recommended aren’t being sold by any local dealers in Thailand Due to the size of your room unless you have a very high powered amp horns of some sort are probably in the mix. So do you plan to only work wit... | |
| Why so many tubes? Yeah but Ralph you are Da Man with stuff like this so I have to ask, what about going the other way? Why not use one great big high power tube? The reason I ask is some guys I respect are going that way with SET and real happy with it. Of cours... | |
| Amperex 6DJ8 tube construction I can add a bit to that. The getter is used to trap all remaining air molecules in the aluminum of the getter. After all the air is pumped out and the glass sealed, the getter is fired with a very high voltage. The air is thus trapped in an alumin... |