atmasphere
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| VINYL SUCKS! I mostly agree with him- just a couple of beefs:Who dusts records that way? So much easier to simply leave the LP on the platter and let it do the spinning, unless the turntable is so yukky it stops turning with this sort of use.He is incorrect ab... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” I challenge you to A/B your horns with any model of Magnepan speakers and see if you still want the horns. Listen especially to voices and "quiet" instruments.I've been doing this for several decades now. I like the Maggies if you have the righ... | |
| Amplifier brand/designer with the most unique and consistent “house sound?” Different resistors, capacitors, wires endow amplifiers with unique and often predictable coloration/qualities. Do these components vary in their distortion/phase attributes in predictable/measurable ways? Yes. Its also predictable that if a p... | |
| Are there any preamps that can work with 2 amps and a sub woofer? Are there any preamps that can work with 2 amps and a sub woofer?Sure. Its not the number of outputs on the preamp, its whether the preamp can drive the combined impedance of all the amp inputs in parallel. Since your main amps have balanced input... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? In solid state amps only a handful and in tube only a handful also they are incredibly difficult to make and unreliable due to heat generation because of the 10 percent efficiency. So most of the makers if not all stopped making them. This stat... | |
| 845/211 tube amplifiers with kef reference 5? Am curious, how about push-pull 845 amplifiers in monoblock configuration? Eg 50w class A, each channel driven by 2 845 or 211 tubes? Would those be sufficient to drive the kef reference 5? If the amp uses feedback you'd probably be alright. The... | |
| Amplifier brand/designer with the most unique and consistent “house sound?” If you get rid of distortion and phase shift across all frequencies, will all amps sound the same? Should they? Even with different topologies, parts? No more house sounds?If their output impedance is also the same then at that point, yes, th... | |
| Amplifier brand/designer with the most unique and consistent “house sound?” That being said, are there other factors aside from harmonic and intermodular distortion that might account for different house sounds? Are there other factors which make different amps sound different, even with negligible distortion of any ki... | |
| High Pitched Frequency From Speakers, tried everything - - - Driving me crazy, help! Here are some things to try.Take the power conditioner out of the system and plug everything into the wall. If that does not fix it re-install the conditioner. If that didn't sort it, Next, unplug all the digital audio products from the wall. Digi... | |
| Amplifier brand/designer with the most unique and consistent “house sound?” So some like more 2nd harmonics and says that the amp sounds great, when others will even almost not want to turn it on to listening to the same amp, when it has according to measurements not and them to high distortion (as harmonics are).So Ho... | |
| 845/211 tube amplifiers with kef reference 5? it won't be a disaster like he's making out, he's got a bee in his bonnet, over something. 'Something' is misinformation. In case there is any question, I am a manufacturer of tube amplifiers that employ zero feedback. I know all too well that suc... | |
| Graham Phantom Mounting Bolts - Where to Get Them? Take one of the existing bolts to Ace Hardware or similar hardware store. Ace has a bolt sizing bit that allows you to sort out what thread it is- and if its metric or American thread.They may well have something like that in stock! But if they do... | |
| The Lifespan of an LP? I'm thinking that the return rate of CDs is probably lower than that of LPs.Yes- as far as new media is concerned, CDs do just fine. It's not clear from the line above exactly what the study concluded about CD lifespan, but if they meant that CDs... | |
| 845/211 tube amplifiers with kef reference 5? That’s just what sets do, look at ANY SET into the Stereophile simulated speaker load frequency response graph, most sets act like tone controls. Sheesh! The Stereophile simulated speaker load ignores the fact that SETs do not function a voltage... | |
| Cons of using main XLR/Balanced outs for subwoofer? @zdw11 @imhififan has it right. Nice setup! |