atmasphere
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| Sound Labs 645-8, A Review Good work! IMO the Sound Lab is one of the top five speakers made anywhere and certainly is state of the art for ESLs. Its wide bandwidth, extremely transparent, and obviously very fast. The impedance curve, particularly in the bass, can be challe... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" the amp produces a sound stage that is nicely defined and articulate from left to right, but not as much from front to back.I know my room is capable of that sound stage because my tube amp accomplishes it.@hilde45 Tubes have long dominated the... | |
| What does clipping sound like? I don’t have this distortion on Netflix, etc.So its not the amps, nor is it the line stage of the preamp. Its something to do with the phono. | |
| What does clipping sound like? Seems like I am pretty confirmed that the scratchy breaking up I hear on swells is clipping.If you don't hear this at high volume it isn't the amps clipping. Could you describe what is meant by 'when the music swells'? That *sounds* like when its ... | |
| What does clipping sound like? When the music swells, I get break up sound. It is not on low notes or high volume. Could you explain this in more detail? So there's no distortion at high volumes or bass notes? | |
| How do you know if you need to add a sub (without auditioning one, I mean)? So what does anyone think of the idea of using a Loki as a very inexpensive experiment to see if more bass even suits me.If you have a standing wave in the room, EQ and room correction won't do anything to fix it! | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? How do I get an armboard for TP for 1200G?There are cheap ones on ebay. The one we make is solid and is built of the same material as the plinth to avoid coloration. | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? The Technics would be an easy no-brainer for me. We designed an armboard that allows a Triplanar to be easily mounted on it- at that point you have a turntable that is very nearly state of the art. The Technics has a rigid and dead plinth, and emp... | |
| PP amp + High sensivity speakers dilemma Just added the Magnovox 1963 tweeter horn witha 2.2uf Mundorf Silver OIl Supreme cap, Super nice. far superior to the upper range comming out the davidlouis 4 incher. I havea Jensen midrange horn 1960’s comming next week, rare horn, I know it will... | |
| The speaker/amplification wars continue Triode mode can not produce slam when needed, as in Elliott Carter vocal work, Whats Next operetta.Yes, you need enough power and this is probably true of your amps but not of all triode amps :) But if you have enough power from a triode amp there... | |
| How do you know if you need to add a sub (without auditioning one, I mean)? Thanks for the responses so far. Is there a consensus as to how much one needs to spend to get a decent sub that really makes a difference? I’m not saying I want to spend the bare minimum, I’m just interested in a basic parameter.There are plen... | |
| Issue with dynamic range database Is vinyl sometimes mastered with greater dynamic range than digital releases of the same album though? Many people believe that is the case.This is certainly true; we always try to get the file with the least amount of DSP (other than normalizati... | |
| Preamp advice needed Well of course we make the MP-1 and MP-3 which are both balanced and with balanced phono sections if you want. The MP-1 has the distinction of historically being the first balanced line preamp made for home audio. You don't see them coming up used... | |
| The speaker/amplification wars continue I would guess each has tube has their pluses over the other. That is correct. Triodes makes less power but are more linear (allowing them to sound better). Pentodes wired in triode (that switch to which you referred) aren't the same thing! Triode... | |
| Issue with dynamic range database It is not something you can modify so, who cares?So how you can draw such conclusion - dynamic meter is false? Steve didn't check to see how the loading was affecting the playback- in this case a high output MM cartridge was used. If you don't loa... |