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| Power Conditioners @puffball08 Nice! Sola has managed a nice improvement on where they were with this 20 years ago! 3% THD seems to be the number; A good power conditioner should be able to do about 0.5% THD (Elgar was getting this with their conditioners 35-40 year... | |
| What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses? a completely new multi-stage high voltage treatment process for the lowest noise floorNoise floor in a fuse? That is probably the thing that has to be explained. We've seen some fuses that have a Teflon or similar sleeve around the fuse element, p... | |
| For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question I'm hoping for folks to compare:well matched amplification and speaker -- with TUBESvs.well matched amplification and speaker -- with SOLID STATEIf other factors are responsible for a sonic difference, then I do not have an answer to my question.T... | |
| What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses? I guess I'm just interested in what they are doing to that cheap SIBA fuse to make it sound so good? They are probably polishing the contacts, if the fuse is made by someone else. They might even be sending them out after that for silver plating.... | |
| For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question In my experience it’s all about matching the amp and speakers.^^ This!If your speaker is of reasonable impedance in the bass (8 ohms or higher) then its no worries making bass. Some tube amps (like SETs) do have trouble making bass impact due to p... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. The Rohloff hubs are very cool but heavy. @mijostyn If you run belt drive its as light as any other system unless you run a single speed... | |
| Vinyl cut from a digital source is nothing but a vinyl cd. Digital audio suffers from dynamic compression for the fake loudness wars and vinyl cut from digital audio is for the most part unlistenable because of the dynamic compression. The only reason the record company would add dynamic compression to... | |
| AnyFM tuner mechanics out there? There is a spring located on the actual wheel that is on the tuning capacitor shaft. Is it loose or does it have tension on it? It should be stretched out to be about 3/4 of the distance between totally loose and the limits imposed by the wheel. T... | |
| Power Conditioners Yes, because the waveform is not sinusoidal. So a lot of higher harmonics will be present that are rarely on the AC line. Electronics tend to be fairly sensitive to the 5th harmonic (300Hz in the US) which is much greater when a ferro-resonant dev... | |
| Tubes? - sure you can get higher output but at what cost ? $33,000? The first breakup in my system occurs at 35Khz. The speakers are 98dB and 16 ohms, go flat to 20Hz. Classic Audio Loudspeakers Project T-3.3 | |
| Tubes? @tobor007 Something you might want to keep in mind is that making an amplifier work hard for a living will result in harsher less involving sound. This is simply because the amp will make more distortion.Tube amplifier power is expensive relative... | |
| Power Conditioners I’m surprised in this thread and some others no mention is made of Sola ferroresonant transformers. I don't see why- ferroresonant transformers make a fair bit of noise in their output, which should be a sine wave for best results. They are good a... | |
| adjustable "fixed" bias amps @lonetoeTechnically speaking, 'fixed bias' and 'adjustable bias' are the same thing. 'Fixed' refers to fixing the bias voltage to a particular value.Normally you set the bias to the manufacturer's spec. I suspect your amp uses the 300bs in paralle... | |
| What amp to match with Spatial Audio M3 Sapphire open back speakers So I need to stay away from amps that are picky and will highlight lesser recordings to the point of making them very hard to listen to. In short, I need a high quality yet forgiving amplifier.IOW an amp that does not editorialize when presented... | |
| Tube amp crackle noise with pre-amp volume at zero. Anytime you change something and a problem shows up, its a good bet that the thing you changed has something to do with it. |