atmasphere
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| Demo'ing Class A amps, Appreciation Suggestions from those who recently been there Well, if that the direction you want to go in, SS will be faster and have better dynamics and more control over the music I'm not ever sure that's the case either. I know of tube amps that are faster than most solid state amps. 'Dynamics' is often... | |
| For efficient speakers, how much difference does an amp really make? Just to be clear, 90-93dB is a moderate efficiency. The problem you run into with moderate to lower efficiency speakers (less than 89dB) is something called 'thermal compression'. This is the tendency for the voice coil to heat up dynamically on p... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 @atmasphere, interesting and beautiful theory /hypothesis on harmonic orders. it is not easy to imagine how it works in practice. how different harmonic orders are related in phase/time, why their combination should lead to a soft pleasing sou... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive my low flow-low pressure air bearing CS Port LFT1 turntable and linear tracker give me more detail than any conventional bearing turntable and conventional bearing tonearm i have heard. the bass is otherworldly. magnificent.If you didn't use th... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive The ET2 with its large surface "stationary" bearing is more rigid at audio frequencies than any metal bearings. Bruce Thigpen has done the analysis , documented it I doubt this very much, on account of one of the metal bearings suppliers in the ... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive all air bearings are not created equal. painting with a broad brush is just not informed. there are general characteristics I do agree. but exceptions too.More correctly, painting with a broad brush is not so much 'not informed' as it is less li... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive I'll try again, since I'd be very interested to find out about this.I did respond to this, in my post just prior to this. | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Rock music will soar with direct drive.@mikelavigne Just FWIW, its not possible to build any sort of audio playback that favors a certain musical genre.I must confess that I don’t really get this, as I don’t see how a mat can simultaneously be a... | |
| all tube phono preamp creating a crackling, fire-like sound @dpoudGiven this is a phono preamp, its running through a line stage or may be driving the amplifier directly. Either way, did you swap the interconnects at the output of the phono section left for right? If no, you need to do that, if yes, what h... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive The issue is you need a powerful drive. Direct drive easily has the best speed stability (Technics makes the most speed stable machines in the world and their drives are pretty powerful). A powerful idler drive can easily dust a weak direct drive ... | |
| Amp Section for New Pair of Magenpan 3.7i Because Maggies have rear-firing output, they should be at least 5 feet from the wall behind them for best results.If you are using a tube amp its mandatory to keep the speaker cables as short as possible- we've made 8" cables for our customers fo... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? I think most of this boils down to system synergy.I'd be careful about that- if you pair a bright preamp with a dull amp, the result will not be neutral. I recommend to all our customers that whatever they buy, each piece in the system should stan... | |
| Expectations after re cap of power-amp @timothywright If you like the amp that price to repair is reasonable. And a lot better than what can happen if a filter capacitor eats a power transformer or explodes! You'll hear the improvement right away- anything built that long ago has aili... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 Have any of you compare the pass amp with Bedini 25/25 100/100 ? For 1/3 prices of pass amp , I’m happy with my Bedini@atl4love Although we've not done any comparisons, we have had the Bedini in our shop (one was recently in here for repair) and ... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 I was confused because earlier you mentioned that tubes have more detail, but the masking of distortion is unrelated to the perception of detail.Thank you for the clarification.Masking though, AFAIK has to do with closely spaced frequencies. Har... |