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| Nakamichi RX-505 and some nice tapes for it I never tried Dolby SIts pretty cool. I once heard a live master recording made direct to a high end Pioneer with Dolby S at a reviewer's house. and it was very 3-D with no noise. Nice. | |
| Open Baffle Opinions - I Won't go back to Boxed Speakers Evr Again (maybe....) Yes, the one big problem is OB’s will tell you immediately how good/bad your room acoustics are. You do "hear" the room. My listening space is not ideal. Basically a square room with the hallway down the left side Speaker and a pocket where the... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" Question: Is it typical of solid state amps to have less of a front to back sound stage than tube amps? Do they vary in this regard? Yes and yes.If the solid state amp is properly designed it should exhibit depth as good as a tube amp. | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? @ieales If you look at my post that you quoted and the information you quoted next to it above, you'll see that we are saying exactly the same thing. TI's information cannot be construed to be seen as a change in frequency response. In that post ... | |
| Cons of using main XLR/Balanced outs for subwoofer? I'd use the Jensen transformers if I were you.The problem you can run into is that of ground loops when interfacing single-ended and balanced equipment. The transformers sort that out by providing ground isolation. They won't rob you of any impact... | |
| Why do we want to distortions? Tube amplifiers sound better because of the euphonic distortions they add to the music.I thought we were trying to avoid distortions. What makes euphonic distortions sound better? Distortion is in all forms of amplification. Of course we want it t... | |
| Nakamichi RX-505 and some nice tapes for it ATR Magnetics is a USA company making new tape. They make cassettes:https://www.atrtape.com/#cassette-tape | |
| So Hard to Decide on an Amp All competently designed amps of sufficient wattage and current, low noise and distortion, with low output impedance will sound like same - Peter Walker of Quad fame. Funny thing- there were no such amps around when Peter made this comment. <... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? when are you releasing your class d amps, ralph...?@jjss49 We've run into covid-related issues with part availability. We've completed the AC line-related measurements (the concern is meeting EU directives so it can bear the CE mark; if it does th... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? Are you using tubes on the input....or is it discrete solid state or integrated circuits? Have you tried all kinds (types like toroid or enclosed, wire wound or foil...better wire quality, etc.) of different iron core and air core coils on the... | |
| Holographic Soundstage ? @viethluu @jjss49 is correct, it appears that the KEF loudspeakers are not a good load for this particular tube amp. If you look at the speaker you see that has a dual woofer array- so its nominally a 4 ohm load in the bass.For this reason you s... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? D tech and it's hybrids are still in their infancy in terms of development with regards to 'high end' audio. Since the latter social group is basically small population-wise, the equipment for now will demand a stratospherically lofty price fo... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? A/AB IS THE WAY TO BE. If you are talking about solid state, the problem you are up against is linearity of the circuit. Class A is used to help improve linearity, but a very real problem faced by audio designers these days is the semiconductor in... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? there is something to the notion that many class d stages are a little too cleanIf that is the case then the designer didn't pay attention to the distortion signature. It can be quite low in a class D amp, but if the higher orders are not masked b... | |
| classical music @anthonya No-one has figured out a way to make any sort of hifi equipment favor a certain format. What's good for classical music is good for jazz, rock, folk, metal, electronia, you name it. The idea that a certain speaker or amplifier might be ... |