atmasphere
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| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? I prefer low sensitivity speakers. Mine are listed at 91,@arcticdeth 91dB isn't low sensitivity. Its more of a medium sensitivity.To put this in perspective, the low eighties is near-criminal inefficiency (its very hard to find an amp that sounds... | |
| Leaky capacitors need replacement? All is well except the bias won't zero down and there seems to be a low hum over speakers at idle which I don't think was there before. Those caps may not be the only ones that were bad. But your tubes can cause both hum and bias problems- have t... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? Speaker drivers are designed to work best when fed with a voltage source.**Most** are but some are not. ESLs for example... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? @lonemountain If I was setting up a nearfield situation (like we use in my studio) I wouldn't use horns either; they're just too big- and how do you get the midrange and tweeter to blend? Nearfield I don't think I'd be very concerned about effici... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? Of course it means bias stability demands attention, but i solved that decades ago.:) | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? In home audio, they are not your friend when it comes to dispersion and low distortion. This statement is false. Horns are well-known to have extremely low distortion if properly designed- the first paper I saw in this came from the 1950s when sli... | |
| Question on Preamp Outputs. I think that XLR/balanced outputs are over-rated! They are only useful if you need to run 10, 20, 30 ... feet cables! At one or two meters "No diffawrance" as the French chef said!The benefit of balanced lines exists even if the connection is on... | |
| Suggestions for Minn/St Paul HiFi Stops? Retail/Manufacturers/Private Homes Is Paul Spelts a retail store name or ? I will look up anti cables.I misspelled his name- its Paul Speltz. | |
| Deciding if I like Class D. Question is: Is the best Class D better than the best Class A?Answer: NoRider: But Class D is a value shortcut and you may get better sound at a relatively low pricepoint.Price is not the only reason to consider class D. Class D offers some adv... | |
| How long is it taking to receive a preamp? Any body buying a preamp? High end hifi sales really bad? Actually the industry is doing well from everyone I've talked to. But one thing that has made things tricky is supply side shortages. Shipping, especially from overseas, is delayed as shipy... | |
| Analog is obsolete pure digital not class D ... When 99.9% of the signal is manipulated by digital technology, it's a mostly digital amp, and we should call it such. If its class D, it will be an analog circuit. But IIRC there is a class reserved for an amplifier that decodes directly from a di... | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? The design of The Cartridgeman‘s Insulator is precisely addressing that issue while avoiding your concern of cartridge displacement by choosing a polymer too stiff to be displaced by the cantilever, which displacement -as you point out yoursel... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action @mozartfan you might want to look into the Tangband 1772. Its a bit easier to drive. PHY, Voxitiv and Cube make drivers that are more efficient and sound better. Some are suitable for Open Back operation, allowing for fairly simple execution of a ... | |
| Suggestions for Minn/St Paul HiFi Stops? Retail/Manufacturers/Private Homes Seems to me Paul Spelts (anticables) is also a demo location for Spatial Audio. | |
| Analog is obsolete pure digital not class D ... Just to be clear, class D is an entirely analog process. It was proposed as a class of operation in the 1950s and the first commercial class D amps were made in the 1960s. |