atmasphere
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| What does clipping sound like? If it's the old classic power amp type clipping, a tube amp will go into clipping before you know it's there perhaps, since tubes soft-clip. They're not 'fast enough' to saw off a waveform like it had been cut with scissors. The edges round off... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? Additionally, when you look at the dynamic range capabilities of stereo source material (which is predominantly recorded at 24 bits) and the emergence of streaming high resolution two channel audio as well as Atmos surround sound, using an ampl... | |
| heat Never cover vents on electronic equipment when that equipment is on. Heat is the enemy of electronics (even tubes). Covering vents on operational equipment is asking for failure! | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... Class D sounds dry and lifeless... thats all, carry onThe one I'm playing sounds neutral, smooth and relaxed, very transparent without any dryness at all. Class D amps vary in sound in much the same way that tube amps do (SET vs push-pull vs OTL a... | |
| Sound Labs 645-8, A Review TacT had the very first room correction system. Accuphase made one too that we used at the 1998 Stereophile show. That was when I realized that if you had a standing wave, room correction wasn't going to fix it if the manifestation of the standing... | |
| Tube Matching ?? Maxi-Matching ?? @autospec Decades ago Tektronix made a curve tracer plug-in for their oscilloscopes. It would display the linearity curve of the tube under test, allowing you to know that it was both statically and dynamically matched to another tube with the sam... | |
| 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... |