atmasphere
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| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ Guys, it's simply not true to make a statement that a higher sensitivity speaker is more costly to make. Drivers, cabinet material, R&D, spikes, connectors, wire, glues, finishes.... and of course how many points dealers get to sell themLe... | |
| Vfet / SIT Amplifiers I have not tried anything else other than the Yamaha C-1, but I probably should@sonetduo Yes. Your Yamaha is outclassed by the amplifier. You might try a tube preamp; I think you'll hear a transformation. | |
| High end Class D amps? @mrdecibel What a class D amp potentially brings to the table is the ability to be neutral in a way that most solid state amps of traditional design cannot: they can be designed to lack brightness and harshness. For this reason alone they can work... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ My point is that dynamics are a matter of volume. A speaker that can hit 110dB without compression is going to be more dynamic than a speaker that can only get to 100 dB even if it is less. efficient. Just a matter of power. Horns are very dyna... | |
| High end Class D amps? Then next you lot may as well just tell us to use this 6000watt!!!!! Class-D Behringer for just $600us. Let me tell you, that on the Wilson Alexia in an a/b it was trounced by the 40 x times less powerful!!! Gryphon in dynamics and bass control.... | |
| Pure tube phono preamp So, it does not matters an all tube can’t mate those 3 phonolinepreamp targets. Today the best you can do for 10K is to go with SS. This statement is based on three anecdotal examples. This is a logical fallacy called 'Guilt by Association', wher... | |
| A deeper more holographic soundstage. Millercarbon is right about the EXACT angle necessary to position speakers.... That is mandatory...While this certainly helps, I've never had to do that to get excellent imaging and depth. But I work with speakers that aren't beamy on the top end.... | |
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. I messed about with them for quite a while. It is again clear to me that these speakers were designed with the control of mid to woofer and tweeter to mid in mind. @eliottnewcombjr A little trick you can do is mark the correct position with a bit ... | |
| Pure tube phono preamp If you are talking about a phono preamp for genuinely low LOMCs, it is not really possible to get the high gain/low noise needed with just tubes. This statement is false. The trick is to set of the phono preamp design to be fully differential (... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ So there must be other factors. Why don't all speaker manufacturers build exclusively high sensitivity speakers?@clearthinker Cost, in a nutshell. High efficiency drivers are much more expensive due to a greater degree of precision required to p... | |
| Compatibility between preamp and amps thanks but isnt there more to it than impedance ratios? like gain and sensitivity?@jimbones Yes. For starters, the output impedance at 20Hz is probably where you should look. With many preamps, the output impedance rises at lower frequencies. The ... | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced Inputs It seems wrong that getting the benefits of running fully balanced should be such an uncertain adventure.+1 Sure got that right. The point of the standard was/is plug and play. | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced Inputs I never said that center tap would be better for noise rejection (though it absolutely could be). It would only be truly differential if you center tapped it and connected the shield to the center tap, such that The parenthetical remark renders ... | |
| Preamp choices:Short list Now here is the kicker: I am getting older and want simplicity and reliability in my system. I don't want to be screwing around with tubes and chasing down issues. Also I can't lift 75lb amps any more. So I am in a quandary, I like a certain s... | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced Inputs Where is the empirical evidence of improvement using balanced connections? Any? Any at all? Oh, that's right, because there is none. Actually there is and its historical. So here is the history: Before balanced lines were developed, a long d... |