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| Reel to Reel information, user tips and tricks... I love a GOOD valve pre. Noisy.... YUKFWIW just about any competent tube tape head preamp will be quieter than the tape itself, unless you are using low inductance heads. | |
| What is the best audiophile speaker for a tiny square room? Sound Labs are the state of the art in electrostatics, and the Majestic is IMO one of the top five speakers made if price is no object. | |
| What is the best audiophile speaker for a tiny square room? But AS MA-2, which is usually recommended with SL, produces 1600W of heat just on idle (2 Monoblocks together). Plus, it is >$20,000.Given the size of your room, if you are thinking of Atma-Sphere, my first recommendation would be a set of MA... | |
| High end Class D amps? This is a smoke screen, they are still "basically" the same, with the same glaring problem, upper mid/highs phase shift, because of the "switching frequency noise filter" on the speaker outputs.This statement is false- they are not 'basically' ... | |
| Looking for a Tube preamp with Tube Rectifier stage <= $/£/€ 3000 Tradition is the main reason you see tube rectifiers in tube power amps. Quite often when that is the case, you will also see that the amplifier circuit itself is from the 1950s or 1960s. 5AR4s have a controlled warmup characteristic, so they do g... | |
| Reel to Reel information, user tips and tricks... You can get tape of all sorts (cassette, 1/4", 1/2", 1") from ATR Magnetics, the last remaining US supplier of audio tape www.atrtape.comWhen storing tape, its better in the attic than the basement! Get some packets of SilicaGel, and put a couple ... | |
| Audiophile system for Techno and Dance music My Classic Audio Loudspeakers (T-3s) are flat to 20Hz. But I have a standing wave at the listening chair so I break that up with a pair of Audiokinesis Swarm subs. Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, Speedy J, Skylab, Orgship, Carbon Bas... | |
| Looking for a Tube preamp with Tube Rectifier stage <= $/£/€ 3000 Just a FWIW: there is no good argument for a tube rectifier in a home audio preamp. The reason is simple- the only real advantage of tube rectifiers is that they are lower noise than solid state, if the solid state rectifiers are not treated corre... | |
| What is the best preamp for Carver monoblock tube amps? Which model of Carver? Do you know the input impedance?Other than being able to drive the input impedance, the correct answer is along the lines of 'the preamp that you like the best'. | |
| Tube Fire What Next? Actually the tube arced. This usually happens when the tube has aged out, or has been damaged. The usual culprit is a sort of paint on the cathode of the tube, which can flake off, and it is conductive. This is the genesis of the arcing. I would r... | |
| High end Class D amps? Class-D wattage instead of doubling for each halving of impedance load actually gets goes backwards when they see 2ohms and worse if there is any - phase angle involved, because they can’t deliver the current like a good bi-polar linear Class-a... | |
| Preamp recommendation What is your budget?Do you want single-ended or balanced? | |
| vinyl versus digital redux Analog tape is not a panacea. Just like vinyl, it significantly colors the sound.To be clear, analog tape colors the sound more than the LP, owing to the fact that a properly functioning tape machine will exhibit a 3rd harmonic, which contributes ... | |
| Class D Technology Bottom line is until we can get rid of the nasty 3rd harmonic distortion in class d our ears will always prefer the cozy 2nd harmonics that tubes generate@kw6 Actually the human ear/brain system treats the 3rd harmonic the same as it does the 2n... | |
| Resistive loading Most modern cartridges have their peak so high up, there is no need for loading to tame the peak, as far as frequency response is concerned, but loading may help with some phono stages that are not equipped to handle the ultrasonic peak overloa... |