atmasphere
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| Doge 8 Clarity: 12AT7 replacement for phono stage Before you try any swapping, I would look into the fact that if you have a high performance tube phono section, that its a simple fact that no matter where you get the tubes for it, they have to be hand-picked. About the only way to do that proper... | |
| Power/Current: How much is realistic? my mcintosh mc602's manual says it's current is 150 amperes per chanell. is this trueNo. Not unless it can make well over 22,500 watts!! And that is giving it the benefit of the doubt- that it can drive 1 ohm. @almarg I think ML specs their speake... | |
| Seeking tube amp advice Do you mean that your speakers are rated at 100 watts?More useful specs of your speakers are impedance and sensitivity. What speakers are they? The interface between tube amps and speakers is very important to get the best out of both! | |
| Should I switch to a preamp with balanced outputs @skipper320 If your amplifier has balanced input circuitry or is fully balanced, it will be lower distortion if provided with a balanced source.The balanced line system was devised for several reasons and one of those reasons is to eliminate inter... | |
| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil I never tried Teflon capacitors. Teflon isolated wire sound good but less natural compared cotton isolated wires.Teflon *insulated* wire has to be either silver or silver plated. Its more likely that the wire is the problem rather than the insul... | |
| Reference Full Function Tube Preamplifier Volume controls can be really tricky as they can have an audible effect- hence so many different approaches. Transformer volume controls can be problematic if the loading of the transformer is not addressed. What this means is that for a given inp... | |
| Synergies in music and amp combinations? Electronics doesn't care. The better electronics will sound better with anything and everything. Electronics can't and don't favor certain genres of music; this is one of the oldest and most persistent myths in audio. | |
| Cartridge loading please don't change the words. You posted several times: "" will limit the ability of the cartridge to trace higher frequencies ..""" I didn't. There is nothing above that suggests I did other than your text. | |
| Watts and power The idea that doubling power is important springs from the concept that loudspeakers are ’voltage driven’. What this means isn’t that the speaker is driven by voltage (despite the expression), it means that the power that drives the speaker is suc... | |
| Cartridge loading Where exist that evidence true evidence about because I don't see the foundations for your several years statements.I see that you don't. But if I tell you that the sky is often blue, do I need to provide evidence, such as what 'blue' looks like?... | |
| If you were to design a tone arm, what would it look like and feature? ^^ Triplanar seems to keep busy somehow- if anything more busy than they used to be.Having made a number of recordings, some of which I have mastered to LP myself, IMO the Triplanar is currently the state of the art and has been for some time. But... | |
| Cartridge loading no one never reported that a loading change or a 100 ohms load in a LOMC cartridge produce that tracking/trace HF problem ! ! To be clear, I have maintained and as we've seen on this thread, any damping will result in less HF response. Any LOMC ... | |
| If you were to design a tone arm, what would it look like and feature? Back in the early 80s I had a Rabco I modified. I used carbon fiber for the arm wand, and set up a more sophisticated servo system, using a capacitance in parallel with the motor.This caused the arm servo to not quite stop and also not speed up li... | |
| Amplifier Hum - Only Amp Connected If there are separate bias controls for each power tube then this explanation makes plenty of sense. If the currents are not balanced, the sawtooth waveform in the power supply can be heard in the speaker. When properly balanced (both bias control... | |
| Watts and power You will excuse me if I consider your 80 amp measurement suspect.Yes, indeed it is!! Assuming a one ohm load instead of two, the maximum current would have only been 37.4 amps. A bit of a stretch to see 80!It can be tricky to interpret oscilloscop... |