atmasphere
Responses from atmasphere
| What is missing here? None of this is discussed in the review, I have to question why?No idea- best to ask the reviewer. IMO/IME its a pretty important (might have wound up edited out) omission! | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world In a nutshell this is an education thing and nothing more.Those that denigrate a distributed bass array are apparently simply ignorant of its advantages. Many dealers don't sell them, so their comments can be sidelined safely enough. If your front... | |
| What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses? So, you would consider an expensive aftermarket fuse a Veblen Good as opposed to a Giffen Good They might be both! Certainly its nothing I worry about. | |
| Ground loop feedback - cable wire issue The Marantz must be an older unit. All consumer electronics are required to have a grounding pin in their AC cord **unless** there is no metal of the product exposed to the outside world. | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration If a cartridge is properly matched to the tonearm damping is not required. It is just a messy proposition. This is the one thing about the Triplanar that I don't like. I never use the damping trough, nor have I ever seen it used by Triplanar at a... | |
| What is missing here? The thing is, if you want to get the most out of an SET, the speaker needs to be so efficient that the amp is never asked to make more than about 20-25% of full power. Otherwise higher ordered harmonics start to show up on transients, causing the ... | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice When I think of solid state, I understand that the continuous power rating is one thing and peak power supply is another.My question is: Is it true with tube amps that if an amp is rated at 60 wpc that is all you are going to get or do capacitor... | |
| Preamp Rectifier Tube Confusion If the 5AR4 changes the sound of the preamp (assuming the originals are good) then you have bigger fish to fry. It should not make any difference at all- the difference between good 5AR4 and lessor examples is reliability. The power supply has to ... | |
| What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses? but lets get the rest of it right, and may only apply to non regulated equipment.Yes- I've been careful to mention this at least twice earlier. It’s all fuser snake oil voodoo, don’t try to make it anything else and give fusers even more fodder t... | |
| What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses? if a piece of equipment, let's say a CD player, has multiple fuses, let's say eight of them, how does the improvement go? The voltage drop across the fuse is the issue. I seriously doubt you would be able to measure or hear anything in a CDP, sinc... | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice The decibel reading at my chair is averaging 80 dbl with peaks at 92 dbl. @dsper50 watts should be enough unless your room is really big. Can it cover the low frequency impedance dips.Our amps are some of the most sensitive of amps to load, and e... | |
| Better Cartridge/Turntable advice for old-school Hip Hop music @hoangkhoi1207Its Impossible to build any sort of audio equipment that favors or excludes any kind of music genre- to electronics and turntables, its all just a signal. If someone found a way to favor a certain genre of music with a speaker, turnt... | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration @billwojo : atmasphere started about.R.This statement is false. Res ipsa loquitur when one is willing to contradict their self in order to make someone else wrong. | |
| Ground loop feedback - cable wire issue An unusual trick that can work wonders is to flip the AC supply polarity of the offending device, in this case the preamplifier.You can only do this if the preamp employs a 2-prong AC connection! Ground loops occur when different parts of the syst... | |
| What tube amp for Harbeth 40.1 It sounds “harder” and dryer. Musical instruments sound very good. I think for classical, I likely prefer SS. However, for vocal, it is not as sweet, and the sound is less holographic. The classic solid state complaint.Pass Labs makes sweeter ... |