atmasphere
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| Bass is clearer and more impactful when I stand vs. when I sit Null, node; these phenomena are caused by standing waves in the room. A standing wave in this case is where a bass note is so long that it is able to reflect off of the wall behind you and cancel itself.No matter what anyone says this cannot be cu... | |
| Economical full-range floor-standing speaker options? You might consider getting a set of Swarm subwoofers (audiokinesis.com). These are compact and will take care of everything below about 60-70Hz down to 20Hz, with evenly distributed bass throughout the room.Once you have that sorted (bass is the h... | |
| tube magic with digital source? Ralph, if my Burson sounds better than that Chinese whatever you will pay for both, agreed ? If not, I will pay for both.:) nah. I just mentioned it to point out how digital, after only 40 years, is finally getting to the point where it should hav... | |
| Amp making noise on shut off I've seen solid state amps do this too. This is a bit more concerning than it is in a tube amplifier; it may mean that an active device is failing. If this is the case I think you'll find that it gets noisier to the point that you hear it when the... | |
| what are some of best tonearms you own or experience with. The references I use are LPs that I recorded. I have the master tapes and know what they sound like. I've used a number of arms at home and at shows; the one that consistently gets everything right is the Triplanar.It has the hardest metal bearing... | |
| Class D The other problem is current delivery into very low impedance speakers, like the classic linear high end amps can, that could take some more time, but they can drive the speakers that aren’t such a savage/nasty load like Wilson Alexia etc, so it’s... | |
| Amp making noise on shut off Meaning: nothing to worry about. Some tubes will do this and its not an indication of failure or sound quality. | |
| Class D So you calling Rubbish! instead of calmly trying to explain yourself, is not hostile. Correct. Its simply factual; I have in fact often calmly explained myself. I've often received complements for my patience in dealing with your insults and mis-i... | |
| tube magic with digital source? Yes.I'm very convinced that part of the rise of SETs in the 1990s has to do with the dryness (back then) of digital. The two complement each other in a certain way. I wouldn't regard it as neutral by any means, but often an SET can calm down the p... | |
| DVD player playing CD's The thing about DVD players is, depending on the unit, there might be a brief pause between tracks. With some CDs this can be annoying. But other than that I would expect a DVD player to work fine playing a CD. | |
| Class D it's Ralph that got hostile calling rubbish on me firstThis is not out of hostility. Just calling out obvious misinformation. I see though that you did not refute my comment about phase shift. You might not like the UcD module, but it does not hav... | |
| Class D That's why it's seems only fixable by moving the switching frequency and filters way up higher so there's no effect of phase integrity down into the audio band, and the only way to do this is move the switching frequency up much higher to 1.5m... | |
| High end Class D amps? @douglas_schroeder Yes, all technologies follow a price/performance curve. Class D was first proposed in the 1950s but really didn't get going until the late 1990s. These early amps were at the bottom of the curve. The curve itself usually follows... | |
| Truly Balanced Cheaper Preamplifiers? Therefore, expensive cables aren’ts as important also. Oh how I wish this were true!I argue this with ignorant people on a regular basis. I can even hear the difference between 0.5 an 1.0 XLRs of the same mfgI've made this point before on other... | |
| Class D I did not measure the amount of residual after removing the secondary coil and caps. Since the caps to ground were just 1000 pf....I imagine that the residual looked much the same. Controlling the residual is pretty important. Its not the sort ... |