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| DYNACO Pre-Amp PAT-4...with an added Volume knob Not heard of that. You might hook it up and see what happens- does it control the main outputs? Does it control the recording outputs? That will give you a good idea if you need to do anything about it. | |
| Driving different pairs of speakers with different speaker wire lengths Its unlikely that the different speaker cable lengths are doing anything bad, unless the cables have some sort of high capacitance which is known to mess with certain designs that have poor phase margins. If the cables simply have two conductors s... | |
| High end Class D amps? In general, solid-state (ss) amps reproduce deep bass frequencies better than tube amps. A good indicator of an amp's bass reproducing ability is its Damping Factor, which basically measures its ability to control, or start and stop, the bass... | |
| High end Class D amps? class d greatest strength is outstanding bass, so yes on that frontbut dual subs are much better than one... some will even say the best way is a 'swarm of subs' to smooth out the deep bass response, which can be very lumpy and hard to modulat... | |
| 100 W Tube Amplifier Malfunctioned As a tube equipment manufacturer, I don't buy the scenario. If one amp is running fine, something else is up. When the input voltage is lower, the current through the transformer is lower- which if anything, would prolong its life. | |
| 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... |