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| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Here's the situation: I have new speakers, 97 db. Trying them with lower watt tube amps (45/211, 300b, etc) seems generally wise. I am attempting to borrow some from audiophiles in the area. @hilde45 Unless your room is a smaller one, SETs usi... | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing @terenthia Since your amp has balanced inputs you might consider taking advantage of that. We don't make a balanced preamp in your price range but you might be able to find one of our MP-3 preamps used for that price. The advantage of balanced li... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? A lower level of Dynamics, flatter line, is expected when impedance is lower? @emergingsoul Dynamics comes from the signal not the amp. When it seems like the amp is more 'dynamic' the chances are extremely high that what you are hearing is act... | |
| To Fritz, Quicksilver, and all the exceptional makers trying to get the word out I've been very happy with my Fritz Carbon 6s which I drive with a 5 Watt/channel tube amp. They play nice together- I have them in my bedroom system. The speakers also work great with our class D amps; we showed with the Carbon 7s at AXPONA in 202... | |
| Doozy of an amp question @roxy1927 There are class D amps out there now that have all the smoothness and detail of the best tube amps and balanced inputs no problem. | |
| 300B Tube Amps with 15/16 Watts Per Channel? How do I know how much power my SET amp is using? That's the tricky bit. The easiest way these days might be to use a sound pressure level app on your phone, once you've calculated how loud 0.75 Watts would be driving your speakers in your room... | |
| Solid state amp that tube fan can be happy with? And my line stage has RCA outputs so prefer not to need adaptors for balanced amp inputs. I'll repeat, I have reasons for a stereo amp so no mono blocs considered. Also I don't expect SS to sound just like tubes, but I'd like a bit of sonic war... | |
| Damping Factor and Overall Negative Feedback. I’ve read you say that you’ve built zero feedback amps for decades. Are your latest Class D amp zero feedback also? I am a Vandersteen owner, looking at new possible zero feedback amps @patrickdowns No, our class D amps run a lot of feedback. We ... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? @emergingsoul The secondary thing is the distortion signature of the amp, which audiophiles call the 'sonic' signature. This is in turn caused by something called the 'transfer characteristic' of the amp. The transfer characteristic has something ... | |
| What's the best 6NS7 tube you have tried in your Atma-Sphere MP-3 preamp? The best 6SN7 we've heard so far is the Linlai. There is a globe variant that I don't think will work as well- the globe resonates easily! Of the NOS tubes the KenRad gets the highest marks. The 12AU7 should not be ignored- it has the bigger eff... | |
| Solid state amp that tube fan can be happy with? @pryso There are class D amps now that are smooth and detailed through the mids and highs like an excellent tube amplifier- so much that its hard to go back to tubes. | |
| Amp search A crossover to match levels? Don't think I understand. As long as gain on both amps is the same, the levels will also be the same. There’s nothing wrong the my current amp btw. @lukaszwk It may not be as simple as that. Plan B is to get a passi... | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse @celo unless you have really top notch electronics with a lot of power, you may well have dodged a bullet on that one. | |
| Faint buzz in speakers In fact, it is so faint you have to place your ear right up against the cone to hear it. @jmfinney As @yoyoyaya and @herman have pointed out, there's nothing wrong with the amp. With most speakers and most amps, if you put your ear against the ... | |
| Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre One of the engineers at ATC was an intern with us, when he left it was to go to California to work at ATC. @ei001h If you get the active version, it has a balanced input that conforms to the balanced standard, AES48. A lot of high end audio balan... |