atmasphere
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| I can prove your room is bad Up close, do you hear a better speaker (to you) than you do sitting down. I don't. My speakers sound a lot better at the listening chair. This is on account of the fact that they are rather large, and the midrange is a horn. You need to be a bit b... | |
| What could cause this amp to fail? What does the amp do with nothing connected to its output? Does the relay click? What happens if you only hook up one channel? | |
| What could cause this amp to fail? Have you tried it on different speakers? Its entirely possible that the amp is just fine and doesn't like the load. | |
| How does adding a second subwoofer improve your systems SQ? EG: Just listen to the second last track "It’s A Miracle" on Roger Waters "Amused to Death" at the end there is a kettle drum roll that rolls around the room on the ground from right to left and back again. If you had just one sub it would ruin... | |
| I can prove your room is bad My original point was to help audiophiles figure out if the direct speaker signal was making it well enough to their seat, without tools. Your question is, literally and figuratively, orthogonal to my own. ;-) Actually its spot on. Speakers radi... | |
| Tube amp - tube socket problem You don't need a new socket. You have three options.1) remove the tube and ever so slightly bend its pins inward so it grips the socket more tightly.2) Remove the tube. Using a tiny screwdriver, work the bit in between the socket contact and the s... | |
| What could cause this amp to fail? If the amp is able to play, even for a brief moment, its unlikely that the power devices are damaged- if that were the case it would not play at all.Power supply filter caps OTOH are the sort of thing that are likely failing with something this ol... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive I think HP of all people nailed it when he noted that digital reproduction effects a high pass filter albeit at a very low frequency which seems to rob the music of its natural ambiance. The bass drops off a cliff, metaphorically speaking. You ... | |
| More Power or use subwoofer to boost bass for music I would disagree with the suggestion to moving the speakers closer to the wall.If you run subs moving them closer to the wall is very practical! | |
| Removing a ZERO from the price of amps I think that's true or should be. We've been working on a class D amp of our own for the last three years. We don't expect it to be particularly pricey- so far its looking like it might be the least expensive amp we make. | |
| Is VTA and SRA the same thing? if we can set the top of the cartridge perfectly parallel to the platter, then we can get very close to 92 degree?If all is well, probably so. But I've seen cartridges where the stylus was incorrectly mounted, making the proper SRA impossible. It ... | |
| Matching fully balanced with unbalanced. .i just try to understand if it beneficial to go balanced as far as I can in the system chain if I have unbalanced amp at the end anyway. The answer to this bit is 'yes.' | |
| SET the best? I learned the lesson of speaker efficiency a long time ago. When I hear systems that have low efficiency speakers and a high power amp, they sound 'little' compared to what I'm used to... | |
| Is VTA and SRA the same thing? One thing to keep in mind- the SRA at 92 degrees is an average. In reality the mastering engineer didn’t set the cutter stylus that way. He set it up so it would cut a silent groove. The cutter stylus only goes about 10 hours, then you have to rem... | |
| Matching fully balanced with unbalanced. BTW, that opamp chops a full audio sign-wave into a negative and a positive, Huh?? No it doesn't. An opamp has two inputs, inverted and non-inverted, and otherwise is a DC coupled amp with very high gain. for audio purposes, to control the gain a... |