atmasphere
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| Subwoofers down-firing or side-firing? Why? The Sub-x sub from Golden Ear has too side firing active drivers and a top and bottom firing passive radiator. Its much easier to get the placement right. | |
| Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 My O/96's sounded ok but not quite "right" when paired with a Pass XA30.8. However when I moved to a Line Magnetic 805ia 48W SET they simply came alive, especially when set a no negative feedbackAs is stated in the article I linked from our web... | |
| Who's using Harbeth with tubes, what speaker model and how many watts per channel? most harbeths are nominally 6 ohms, dropping to just above 4-5 ohms in the bass regionmy understanding is that tube amps typically have trouble delivering a lot of current (certainly compared to ss amps which happily double their delivered powe... | |
| Problem with phono stage It looks like Raul is on a roll again. There is some possibility a post of his will be removed, so I will not quote it. Instead I will generally address some of his benighted comments.The calculator I linked to demonstrates that an electrical reso... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Does the swarm system work equally as well for home theater and music listening? @jdlynch Yes. | |
| Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 Regarding the o/96; I've seen this speaker work quite well but in every case its been paired to a tube amp with a fairly high output impedance (IOW no loop feedback).Speakers that work with that sort of amplifier tend to operate on a slightly diff... | |
| Upgrade capacitors in tube amplifier? I'd be careful about anything that is paper and oil in a tube circuit. Over time its not that unusual for them to develop a bit of electrical leakage; this can throw off the bias and operating points in the circuit.FWIW we've had good luck with th... | |
| Problem with phono stage where normally internal inductance is not really high ( say over 600. ) so with that 150/200 capacitance in the Lehmann and due that has a high overload design seems to me that that is not the problem but Lehmann overall set up.Let's drop these... | |
| Problem with phono stage How in the world are pops and tics not normal in vinyl playback? It’s part of the medium as it is a contact sport so to speak.@audioguy84Many phono stages generate ticks and pops on their own, caused by poor high frequency overload margin, related... | |
| Audible Illusions M3A factory refurbished or MFA MAGUS Bruce Moore checked? I prefer the Magus, but if you are planning to use the phono section, a good number of them have a non-RIAA extension to the equalization that causes them to be bright. Its only two parts in the EQ that get bypassed- its easily sorted out. The lat... | |
| Why I enjoy my Luminous Audio passive unit, vs an additional gain stage ( preamp ) Question : Are there many high end home audio companies whose products offer balanced only, conform to the AES48 standard. I hate to say it but 'no'. Most of the balanced line preamplifier product I've seen that is balanced does not support the st... | |
| Tubes most likely to improve SQ? Yes.Start with the 12AX7- and then work your way forward to the outputs. | |
| Problem with phono stage I thought capacitance for cables didn't matter with a MM Cartridge , only MC.@vinylvin , @emilinActually it matters quite a lot! With a high output MM cartridge the inductance tends to be rather high. This in tandem with the capacitance of the to... | |
| Why I enjoy my Luminous Audio passive unit, vs an additional gain stage ( preamp ) The entire system used during our cable evaluation was new Benchmark products, from the source to the amps, which I understand to be ( prove me wrong ), the standard AES48. And if I am wrong, so be it. I have been wrong before. So, given the " ... | |
| JBL L100 Amplifier Recommendations Its not so much that you need a gutsy amp to drive a 12" speaker; what you are dealing with here is the simple fact that JBL chose to make this speaker hard to drive. Its nominally 4 ohms to start with, and has a difficult phase angle in the mid b... |