atmasphere
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| Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?.... We had an AR (Acoustic Research) tuner come through the shop recently. It needed a new filter capacitor in the power supply, and one of the rectifiers was leaky so I changed both out. After that is spec'ced out quite nicely on the bench and pulled... | |
| Preamp SS to match class D amp Input source as well rca to laptop headphone out :) Yikes! If you want a recipe for sound is as well flat, no depth, no rich, -that is a good way to get it. If you are playing from a laptop and budget is a concern, get a Topping E30, which you ca... | |
| Phono Preamp suggestions $2000 (pre-rabbit hole tire kicking edition) I really never know when I'll get a chance to spin a couple sides so warm up time could be a factor.Most tubes in a preamp take 20 seconds. And then about 1/3 hour to an hour to sound their best. By contrast most solid state preamps don't sound ri... | |
| What does ‘balance preamp’ mean? An additional advantage of balanced preamps is that they have improved immunity to noise in the power supplies of the preamp. This is because any such noise is common to both phases of the signal and so it less able to be amplified as opposed to a... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? DBAs add complexity and would also likely take more time and effort to get right initially as a result. If it were me I would solve one problem at a time....resolve the problem at hand first with existing sub then consider adding DBA after that... | |
| High end Class D amps? Atmashpere, how would one ever test that variable independently outside of other amplifier qualities? Plenty of seasoned audiophiles and reviewers alike that would argue subtleties in how a woofer is damped is second only to an amps ability to ... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 Actually I don't buy MM cartridges all that much; when I do they are new. I see them on turntables that we service. I've also experienced the phenomena with my own cartridges as they've aged. It does not seem to matter whether they are MM or LOMC.... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 I've seen it happen quite often! I'm sure some might make it but you would be lucky indeed to see any cartridge last 30 years! | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 @dsper The one thing that isn't getting mentioned here is that your cartridge is beyond its freshness date.The cantilever has a suspension which fails over time. It perishes and might get really stiff or might simply melt. Either way the cartridge... | |
| High end Class D amps? Bass which unlike most people I find typically to NOT be a strength of most class D because it is almost always over damped for the modern speaker, is stellar on the DS225, fast and articulate but with some body like bass actually sounds. @pet... | |
| What does ‘balance preamp’ mean? No, a real balanced circuit is one where the positive (+), the negative (-) have distinct circuits, and negative is distinct from earth.So there is a higher manufacturing cost. There is also noise cancellation -- i.e. any noise common in both c... | |
| Preamp SS to match class D amp Going through forums people ask advices only on tube pre amp to combine class D amp probably for the fact of the colorations of tube and some sterile class d amp they own.Tube preamps are not used to add colorations. They are used to avoid them ... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? Perhaps what @mapman was saying about increasing current flow could help this situation. I'll have to look into it. Thanks for your thoughts! The thing is, when you have thermal compression there is a tendency to turn up the volume/throw more pow... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? If you're talking Floyd Toole, then expect to hear about a Distributed Bass Array too... but since that is off topic that's all I'm going to say about it. But that isn't what the problem is with excess power. In a traditional push-pull solid state... | |
| Logical cartridge upgrade for a long time Shure M44-7 user The trick here is knowing what the original tape actually sounded like. If there are tonal aberrations in the playback it will certainly affect how you hear things. If that's the only way you've ever heard a certain recording when you hear how it ... |