atmasphere
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| Purifi Class D: Junk? Can you illuminate me on what types of differences, among equally rated and types of fuses you have encountered? How precise did the DVM have to be for you to measure it, and what qualities do you look for? The voltage drop across the fuse vari... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? Almost all tube manufacturers....they pick caps, etc. by ear....and they don't measure any different.This statement is false- they do indeed measure differently (whether some companies bother to measure the differences is a different matter). We u... | |
| The problem with Magicos Jeez.Just go up the original post, and report it. The Report button is in the lower right side of any post on audiogon. If we all do this, there's a good chance this thread will go away. | |
| Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy? Headphones bring an addition bit of clarity that's hard to get with loudspeakers. Current drive is advantageous for headphones, but impractical for loudspeakers. | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? I have come to believe, with limited data that the issue is not the amplifier’s power rating but how consistently it performs across the audio band, and this is a place where the math doesn’t quite live up to the audible effects. The problem is... | |
| preamp-how important is separate enclosure for pwr supply? The power supply is always critical!We have five power transformers in the power supply of our MP-1. As a preamp in a single box, the box would have been heavy and enormous. Even with the use of toroids we've seen radiated magnetic fields which co... | |
| Phono Preamp suggestions $2000 (pre-rabbit hole tire kicking edition) The problem you are up against with a phono section is that the cartridge and tonearm cable have an electrical resonance that can really mess with the front end of a phono section. The resonance can easily overload the input section of the preamp,... | |
| Phono Preamp suggestions $2000 (pre-rabbit hole tire kicking edition) I agree about 'slam' but seriously, 'dynamics' usually means distortion. This is because the ear uses the higher ordered harmonics in order to sense how loud a sound is. When the electronics is adding higher ordered harmonics even in very small am... | |
| 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.... |