atmasphere
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| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? They were all lifeless in comparison and all of us heard the same thing. I sold a bunch of them at Luskin’s and had I don’t know how many people complain of the way they sounded.There can be a lot of variables and especially back then, the platter... | |
| why did my record player slow down, speed up, then go back to normal? If this is an older turntable with variable speed, one explanation might be that the speed controls or the speed selector switch are developing corrosion. If this is so, you can expect future events and more often.Another explanation is a brief po... | |
| Tube vs. Solid State Amplifiers I've heard some (who are much more knowledgeable than me) say that a tube amp and solid state amp which are rated at the same output power in practice will not drive a speaker to the same level, that in selecting amplifier power levels, you wou... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... When are your Class D amps coming out? I just sold an amp and looking for a new one.We're doing limited shipping of Beta production right now. As with many things associated with the pandemic, we've run into supply side shortages that have caused ... | |
| step up transformer noise but the transformer produces noise through the speakers, even when the amp is turned off.I suspect this isn't true. I do suspect that the transformer is noisy, even with no load. I would use a transformer with **at least** double the capacity need... | |
| Restored my dads R2R but no tape loop on integrated Why tape record in 2021?With a good set of mics you can make nice recordings of real things. Or- you could make a mix tape of just what you want to hear, rather than have to listen to cuts you don't like on an LP, CD or streamed album. | |
| Microphonic feedback? If you tap on the amp’s tubes, does it send an impulse thru the speakers?@birdfan You didn't answer his question! To get feedback due to microphonics the tubes would have to be pretty bad. Just tap on them as cleeds asked- you'll find which are b... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... You can argue about science but it is just thoughts in your head. What is real, is what we hear. Expectation bias is also very real. Perhaps have doing the destatic thing, measure what it does? You'd need a CD with test signals on it. | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? @mijostyn You'll want to be careful using the vacuum system! I had a Sota Cosmos some years back that damaged the LP surface held against the platter pad. Dusting both sides before playing didn't fix it. Later, Sota changed the surface of the pla... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? I wasn’t so much worried about the delay but the stress of constant starting/stopping on the motor.Doan worry aboutit.There’s no problem at all in this regard- we’d know about it by now; Technics motors have been running fine for decades.The real ... | |
| Low power amps and speaker damage? Solid state amps, if underpowered, will generate large amounts of higher ordered harmonics when overloaded, which the crossover cannot keep out of the tweeter. So the tweeter fails as its only able to handle a few watts.Tube amps generate less hig... | |
| Beginner looking for guidance into tube sound. but my copy of Canto General sounds weak on the bottomHeck, that recording can shake walls! The bass drum used was the largest in the state. | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? My aversion to direct drive turntables comes from pretty extensive listening tests back in the late 70's early 80's. The universal opinion was that direct drive turntables sounded inferior to the best belt drive turntables. There were various t... | |
| Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams I'm trying to set up a pair of pipedreams with their subwoofers, but I can find no documentation online about them, so finding an adequate amp for them is very hard. IIRC, the subs are built to be operating below their resonance, so the crossove... | |
| Beginner looking for guidance into tube sound. You make wonderful amps but clearly this person is starting out and can’t afford them, not my Julius Futterman OTL3s. I began by building my own Dyna 70 when I was 14 years old and it kept me quite happy from 1968 through 1980, when I moved up t... |