atmasphere
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| Preamp - what's the purpose? Sitting a few meters away from my loudspeakers, the first watt alone gives me roughly 80db of volume. I think these amps are biased to expect the line level signal directly. Why wouldn't the designer do that? So what's the point of adding a pre-... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? I have a pair of Thiel CS6 speakers that dip to around 2 ohms in part of the frequency spectrum. I run them with a Krell KSA 300S that doubles its power down to one ohm (300 watts @ 8 ohms, 2400 watts @ 1 ohm). When I took the amp in for recappin... | |
| To loom or not to loom? So I must ask as a mfr of both tube and GaN amplification what have been your experiences and are their brands and types of cables you prefer. @audio_is_subjective64 Because we made the first balanced line preamps and amps for home use it didn’... | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers @izjjzi I can't speak for other class D designs. The sound varies from one class D to another more than it does with class A amps or tube amplifiers- IOW quite a lot. But I know how our stuff sounds. For reference I use LPs and CDs that I recor... | |
| To loom or not to loom? Should I look at consolidating each system to a specific brand and model of cables or is this a fool’s errand? @audio_is_subjective64 I’m going with fool’s errand. For speaker cables the right cable varies with the amplifier and loudspeaker. Y... | |
| VPI Prime Sig/Lyra Delos / Feedback ...help! So I just bought a 2" butcher block that's (solid AF) & 4 IsoAcoustics pucks, @tommypenngotti Just so you know, a 2" butcher block doesn't do much to kill vibration. If you bonded it to a substantial slab of marble or Corian (or other diss... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? @rrm Two things: lack of phase shift and aural effects having to do with the 2nd and 3rd harmonics, the latter of which can make an amp seem more detailed and spacious. | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers My question is, why? I do not think other amps are embellishing the sense of power and scale. I am wondering what it means that GaN is not accomplishing the same? Is it more accurate? Controlling the drivers too well? The sound is as good as ... | |
| Technics SL-1200GAE or VPI HW-40 or …? I think to @pindac point, some do work…. and listening and experiment is how you reached your conclusions….. @tomic601 A friend of mine (who now works at ARC and has been there 25 years or so) worked for about 10 years on a platter pad project... | |
| What is the best 2A3 SET Amplifier? I don’t see there are any corelation between them and the current designers or copiers. @edle The US was first to move away from SETs because superior technology appeared, developed in the US. Although SETs can be fun, they really don’t stand u... | |
| How does a preamp die from sitting unused for a few months? If the rectifier tube is burned out would the rest of the tubes and power indicator light light up, or would all electricity be stopped at the first tube (here I'm assuming the rectifier is the first tube)? @audiodwebe In a word, no. The tubes... | |
| Minimum Power Needed to Drive Klipsch Cornwall IVs? - Considering Erhard_Audio Ray @katokaelin Seriously, 2 Watts isn't going to work in your larger space although I'm sure the Decware will sound fine at lower volume levels. My speakers are 98dB and 16 Ohms; very easy to drive. My space is considerably smaller than yours and I ... | |
| Why don't we tire of music? I played in an orchestra for a number of years before, in and after college. What finally stopped me was Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which took a few times of reiterating the same spot in the score until the violins got it right. Something snappe... | |
| Minimum Power Needed to Drive Klipsch Cornwall IVs? - Considering Erhard_Audio Ray @mlsstl If a PP amp was being considered, what you say just above would be correct- but with no headroom. SETs, as I mentioned earlier, need to be used such that you only use about 20-25% of full power if you really want to hear what the amp is al... | |
| Minimum Power Needed to Drive Klipsch Cornwall IVs? - Considering Erhard_Audio Ray Very interesting. If I decide to pass on the Ray I’ll likely go for Erhard-Audio’s Saturn, which is a 15W PP... @katokaelin Too bad there's not more information on their site- that amps sounds interesting! The cleaner the amp is, the more you'... |