atmasphere
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| Tube Amplifier Sound Characteristics I wish there were a scatter diagram one could put together of tube amp sound qualities. @jimbones The last thing the industry wants is for the buyer to know what the amps sound like :) They spend a lot of time trying to tell you that they don't... | |
| Tube question: any sonic difference in 6SN7 vs 6H30 vs 6H80 in the amp's signal position? I lived there for 35 years, and never saw those in the commercially available devices.Yes. It was made exclusively for the military. | |
| How important is the pre-amp? I disagree that the preamp’s sonic performance is always tightly correlated with the price. Funny- I was just commenting about this on another forum. I agree the price doesn't have much to do with performance. Those that price to a formula will be... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? Transformers on the other hand, where resistors have problems transformers have benefits. There is a reason after all why we use them all over the place for isolation and power conditioning. You solve one problem; you introduce others. Then it... | |
| Tube question: any sonic difference in 6SN7 vs 6H30 vs 6H80 in the amp's signal position? BTW, Soviets made billions of them.:) a bit of hyperbole, I'm sure. | |
| SET the best? Especially when we have solid COLBALT out put trans in the mix, These powerful trans, are not cheap, I should add.:) or you could dispense with the output transformer altogether. My speakers are 97.5dB, 16 ohms and flat to 20Hz. I've yet to hear... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? Do you believe it’s a point of tremendous debate that certain preamps color system sound? If so, that point of view would be surprising. One has only to look at twenty years of Audiogon preamp discussions to reach the conclusion that among many it... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? Some folks like coloration certain preamps provide.This is of course a point of tremendous debate. I prefer the lack of coloration afforded when the interconnect cables cease to alter the sound of the system. You can't do that with a passive setup... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? I get how power amps can make really significant changes to the sound of a system. And of course speakers have an even bigger effect. And then there is the complicated relationship between the speaker and power amp. But I wonder about pre-amps.... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? Ralph, thanks for the info. I recall that many years ago you explained that global NF creates temporal intermodular (TIM) distortion because of the infinitesimally small amount of time that it takes for the signal (after phase inversion) to lo... | |
| SET the best? So this is a mono set? I assume you recommend your tube pre, or is that coming soon too? @bjesien We've been making preamps since 1989- the MP-1 was the first balanced line preamp made for home audio.Intrigued. Could you please point me in the dir... | |
| Are most tube preamps ‘ultra linear’? Single ended amps are not so obviously the purest thing around. They are low power with lots of second order harmonic distortion. They react with reactive speaker loads so their output is not flat. And they are non-linear. They compress the neg... | |
| Are Quicksilver power tube amps in the same league as VAC, VTL, BAT, ARC, ...? It appears that I can't be wrong with QS monoblocks and I need to get at least 100 WPC amps.@iYes you can go wrong but not due to the quality. Again, unless you are nearfield or in a smaller room, 100 watts on a speaker that's only 87dB in an aver... | |
| Are Quicksilver power tube amps in the same league as VAC, VTL, BAT, ARC, ...? I need to drive 87dB speaker, so the power has to be at least 80Watts.Unless you are nearfield or have a smaller room, you'll need more power than that! But to your OP question: 'Yes'. | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above 2. Dynamics: Everything sounded smaller and controlled in 1200G compared to the other TTs. The explosive dynamics were missing. The SP10mk2 was better. The idlers were simply in a different league. My previous TT was a Platine Verdier and that ... |