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| Help with XLR ICs. @zlone You might try a pair of Mogami Neglex XLR cables just for fun. They are not expensive and they are very good. | |
| 300b lovers Both were used to play the lacquer once for quality control, then off to the plating plant. Usually you don't want to play the lacquer at all- any playing degrades it. But you can cut outside the 12" diameter since the lacquer is 14"; in this w... | |
| 300b lovers Still out in the weeds dept.; Many phono preamp designers over the last 70 years have ignored the significance of a magnetic cartridge whose output is in parallel with the capacitance of the tonearm cable. Any time an inductor is in parallel wit... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? @dentdog Anything with a transformer (like an isolation transformer) is subject to the distortion made by the transformer itself. Generally speaking, to avoid excess distortion from the transformer it must not be loaded past 50% of its rated capac... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? Current limiting starts at the power cord. Any time you have a glorified power strip, like so many so-called 'power conditioners' seen marketed to the high end audio community, the power cord it uses will have a voltage drop. We recommend to our ... | |
| 300b lovers @alexberger , @lynn_olson mentioned earlier: Ralph brings up a very good point about feedback: the underlying theory assumes a distortionless summing point. (The summing point is the comparator input between signal input and the sampled output.)... | |
| Help with XLR ICs. does that translate to: if the equipment is truly balanced, then the XLR interconnects do not make a difference, but if the equipment isn't balanced but instead just has XLR but is really single-ended, then the XLR cables matter similarly to sing... | |
| Help with XLR ICs. This is a serious question, not intended as a flame: can someone please explain to me, given the topology and function of balanced circuits, how any particular XLR cable composition can make a significant difference in sound, since whatever influ... | |
| Are Bruce Moore "Companion" and MFA "Magus" similar products? MFA was prior to Bruce being on his own. Looks like the two are very similar in scope. | |
| 300b lovers In my next phonostage I want to make an external power supply with a separate filament transformer. But I haven't decided which RIAA schematics to use. There are basically two types of tube phonostages. In one type RIAA is implemented in feedback... | |
| 300b lovers Sounds like @atmasphere is early on their journey with a PP 300b. Certainly far enough along to demonstrate a prototype at a show, much as we did in Seattle last summer. We started prototyping with DHTs seriously about 20 years ago. Back in t... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps @elliottbnewcombjr The FDA has approved a prosthetic meniscus replacement now so knee replacement doesn't have to be a thing. Thought you should know; I apologize if you already did. Good Luck with it! | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s I’m open to the idea, but I use to run a Decware CSP2+ in front of an Odyssey Khartago, and I don’t remember this combo having the soundstaging of a good tube amp. @rischa There are now some solid state amps (class D even) that cast a sound sta... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Btw, I remember listened 4-5 times in the past the original Wilson Watt and this is a fantastic true monitor not high efficiency as a horn but measured 91db and this Watt has a problem for any amplifier ( tubes forbidden with ) at 1khz its impeda... | |
| 300b lovers Wow, is that the first Atma-Sphere with an output transformer? No, nor the first to be shown in public or sold. We make a small 5Watt/channel integrated amplifier that is suitable for desktop, bedroom, headphones or a main system if your speake... |