atmasphere
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| 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... | |
| "not about the $, its about what does it take to engineer a machine that becomes invisible I completely understand why many listeners prefer and seek out the rich harmonic distortion of tube amps and similar gear that doesn’t perform so well on a test bench. The problem here is that most solid state amps make harmonic distortion too- ... | |
| The speaker/amplification wars continue ith respect to tube types in pushpull amps, I tend to like 6L6, KT66, EL34, and EL84 tubes over the likes of 6550, KT88, KT120 and KT150 tubes. You might consider what push pull *triode* amps can do. Triodes are a lot more linear than pentodes ... | |
| Running LOMC with MM (47K) loading Perhaps the Pass is one of those phono stages that's not that sensitive to loading. Yes. Nelson knows what he's doing. | |
| Running LOMC with MM (47K) loading However I suppose it could also be an option for the customer who needs to tame their systems tendency towards brightness. At least that was an early finding I had with some different components. ThanksIts not always an option to seek out a pho... | |
| The speaker/amplification wars continue @mozartfan While I am also a fan of easy to drive speakers, regardless of your conclusion I really should point something out. The Defy 7 is a rather large amplifier and a 211 SET is not. In a nutshell if you want to know how PP does against SET, ... | |
| Cons of using main XLR/Balanced outs for subwoofer? Within very generous tolerances, humans are insensitive to phase shifts. He also points out that in a normal room sound is reflected many times from objects at multiple distances resulting in enormous amounts of phase shifts that dwarf the far ... |