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| 100W+ solid-state amps known for beautiful mids @hedonism What you are looking for is an amp with the right distortion signature. The warmth of the Pass is caused by a 2nd harmonic for example- similar to a lot of tube amps. If you talk to Nelson you'll find he's very aware of how the distorti... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? Aside from what i already wrote, here's also the practical issue. A low impedance, hgih current amp will drive anything. This isn't quite correct, just so you know. Try putting your amp on a Sound Lab ESL sometime. That speaker is 32 Ohms in the ... | |
| Drummers! Which amps do you use for best Timing & Dynamics? If you're looking for the best natural sound setup for drums, you need to go Planar, as in Magnepan. No other type of speaker can compete with the speed and transparency of a Planar speaker. Planars with permanent magnets won't be as fast as a... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? He did but it wasn’t absolute. He added a little resistance so it behaved more like a tube amp. This means it was LESS like an ideal voltage source and MORE like a current source, but even then there are limits to how well this can ever be done... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? The power amplifiers that drive our loudspeakers are mostly built as a low impedance voltage source. They have always been ... but why?Loudspeakers have a (greatly) varying impedance over the frequency range. A current drive amplifier would eli... | |
| Power conditioner some say yes and some say no. That absolutely does not happen with isolation transformers.As long as you don't run them past about 50% of their rated capacity. | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? What makes this tricky to understand is that MM cartridges **are** affected by the loading values at audio frequencies. This is because there are so many more turns of wire inside them- they have much higher inductance. So there is confusion and t... | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? string quartet in the mastering room….what an idea….w both high speed tape and a really good ADC ( Wadia 17 ), imagine that….Or direct to disc. The simple answer is the device may compensate for some design flaws in lesser arms/tables and may cha... | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? but the phonostage that needs loading down. Dave Wilson and Tom Evans (the Groove) believe in loading cartridges down. If you understand that its the phono section that's reacting to the resonance of the cartridge and tonearm cable, you're far mor... | |
| Anyone here using vintage speakers? My bedroom system is using a set of KLH Model 19s which are a small bookshelf speaker with dual 4" full range drivers. They image pretty well but no bass, but they do go low enough that it was no worries integrating them with a sub that rolls in b... | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? Can you please tell me what tomwh is talking about? @mijostyn No, I can't. | |
| who do i contact to make custom plastic cassette cases and shells? @leemurray2007 Have you contacted ATR Magnetics?https://www.atrtape.comTo my understanding they are the only US manufacturer still making cassettes. | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? I am no Rega fanboy, but I find the approach taken in their flagship TT to be very interesting: Super low mass plinth made of materials that are not likely to store energy efficiently and of low enough mass also to further reduce energy stora... | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? ^^This.If the cartridge is moving with the stylus it will have less output. But it isn't; its mass and that of the arm is magnitudes higher than the stylus and cantilever. At any given instant the arm is relatively still so in fact the stylus is m... | |
| Cary V-12 blowing capacitors @whataboutbob1 There is a good point made in the posts immediately above. Since this cap failed its probably a good idea to have them all changed- in both amps.Cary, IMO, owes you the repair on this one. Based on what they told you they had a seri... |