atmasphere
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| Control volume with DAC or Preamp? George is omitting the rest of Nelson's comments when he makes that quote. He seems to do this as part of his 'product protection' program, since he sells (actually a very good, but also obviously not of his own design) passive volume control. Her... | |
| Class A triode - on/off on remote? There's really no point. Other things in the system have to be turned on too. The preamp has to be first. So no point in using a remote. If a preamp has it, its only because they could implement it, not because its actually practical. | |
| High end Class D amps? Why would a Class-D amp care about phase angle?In a nutshell, any good class D amp wouldn't. | |
| HDMI to Analog Decoder/Converter? You might consider an HDMI to USB adapter, which can then be plugged into a DAC. | |
| Control volume with DAC or Preamp? Quite often the volume control in a preamp is better than one in a DAC. This is usually true if the DAC employs a digital control, since digital controls usually shut off bits to lower the volume, resulting in lower resolution as the volume is red... | |
| 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... |