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| Spatial M3 Triode Master Preamp/amp choices @jplunkettj You might want to contact Clayton and ask him what sort of output impedance he expects with amps that drive his speakers. All the installations I've seen have used amps with a fairly high output impedance. While I've heard class D am... | |
| Tube Amp soundstage There are solid state amps that can make a sound stage as good as a tube amp, but most of them are class D.The differences you hear between tubes and traditional solid state has been about distortion for the last 60 years. Solid state amps have hi... | |
| High end Class D amps? Moto Guzzi's feel very similar to the BMW horizontal flat twin vibrations, both are no-where near as smooth as he V Twin Ducati. For along time the 916 was my dream bike. Then a friend let me ride it and I never wanted to ride one again. It vibr... | |
| Need advice replacing my preamp 'my' personal experience running 100% true differentially balanced systems is that "I" have heard the difference between 0.5M XLRs and 1.0M XLRs from the SAME company: Eichmann Express Copper. Now that was ~ 10 years ago but I never tried it w... | |
| Dynaco PAT 4 Pre-Amp ....Why is it Bashed?? I am puzzled why there are so many negative comments being posted regarding this pre-amp sounding harsh and bright.It sounds good to me...clear and detailed.This is a common complaint leveled at a lot of solid state preamps, and often for the s... | |
| Spatial M3 Triode Master Preamp/amp choices I know our amps work very nicely on that speaker according to Clayton. I would expect the ARC to be a bit dry on that speaker. The Purifi amp with a tube preamp is worth exploration- depending greatly on who did the implementation of the Purify mo... | |
| High end Class D amps? Really more digs?Ducatis like the 900 you had look fabulous; there's a few of those here in town. Apparently every single one of them emerged from boxes, and as you pointed out, your 750 Sport (also a fabulous looking bit of Italian dreamwork) is ... | |
| Spatial M3 Triode Master Preamp/amp choices You'll want a bit of power- 50-60 watts is nice; you'll have trouble clipping an amp with that kind of power. My speakers are 98dB and I find that about half that- 30 watts- is about right in my room of similar size. Owing to the fact that your sp... | |
| apt holman problems That preamp is old enough that I would replace the filter capacitors in the power supply before anything else! Electrolytic capacitors (which are used in the power supply) really are only good for about 20-25 years- after that probably about 50% o... | |
| Need advice replacing my preamp FWIW most high end audio preamps, even though actually balanced, don't support the balanced standard, known as AES48. AES48 prevents ground loops from making buzz, and prevents interconnect cables from having artifact (if you've ever heard differe... | |
| Matching subwoofer Almost any sub that has controllable crossover points and volume will do.You'll want to set the sub crossover frequency to about 65Hz so it will have no output above 80Hz. In this way it will not attract attention to itself and you can thus place ... | |
| High end Class D amps? Ha! Photos or it didn't happen. If he wants a classy Italian early 70s motorbike that he can actually ride without fear of it stranding him, maybe a Laverda instead of a Ducati. A Laverda from that period is far more reliable, far more likely to s... | |
| High end Class D amps? I’ll state once again as yet NO!! Class-D (and that also goes for my choice Class-D Technics SE-R1) will perform as good into a pair of Wilson Alexia and such, with their EPDR bass loadings like a hi current Gryphon Antillion etc etc can.Just l... | |
| High end Class D amps? Well this is an excellent example of how George has no idea what he's talking about. Sheesh.George, perhaps you could come up with some evidence of your preposterous claim?? You know what they say- photos or it didn't happen. | |
| High end Class D amps? Combined, these two give’s you what’s called EPDR, (Equivalent Peak Dissipation Resistance) and that can give the amp a very nasty load impedance to look at. Good big current bi-polar amps don’t mind seeing this.Class-D tends to quickly drop of... |