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| Lowther Bass Reflex and Subwoofers The thing about full range drivers is that they aren't. So if you want to really have fun with them a sub system is a good idea. To that end you might want to look into the Swarm by Audiokinesis, since it can do an excellent job of integrating. Th... | |
| Tube amp output taps; use both? What does 'tightly controlled' mean? Tighter bass? If so, you might want to think about the idea that while tight bass is often a lot of fun, it is a coloration not found in real life. But to answer your question you can mix the taps without damag... | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? My theory is that the very high damping factors unique to class D amps was truncating the decay times of the bass notes.IMO it is possible to overdamp loudspeakers and thus truncate the bass notes, ending up with a coloration called 'tight bass'.... | |
| Reference Full Function Tube Preamplifier If you are running balanced lines, its a good idea to find out if the preamp you have in mind supports the balanced line standard, also known as AES48. The reason for this is simple: in any high end system a lot of attention is paid to interconnec... | |
| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil In my pre, with a pretty large cap (2uf) right on the output, going to the vcaps was like turning on a fluoresce light.Did you give them adequate time to break in? We've got plenty of feedback that says that takes a while. On paper, Teflon has the... | |
| Cartridge loading lower R presents obviously more breaking force, opposing the stylus movement. This is the electromagnetic induction law in action: the current (flowing through R) creates the magnetic field that opposes the stylus movement. This force behaves ... | |
| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil they're more tonally similar than different (whereas V-Cap TFTFs and Mundorfs will definitely both shift the tone in different directions). We've used the V-Caps a lot and never run into anything like that FWIW. | |
| Adjusting tube bias... @krelldreamsA set of bias test points so you can plug in a more accurate meter might be a simple solution. | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? Have you made a decision yet on whether you’ll be offering free limited in-home trial periods for auditioning?We're not nearly that far along!With regards to GaN performance, they can be variable depending on who made them and their intended appli... | |
| Reference Full Function Tube Preamplifier So two box units are off the table?A good number of the best preamps out there run an outboard power supply. | |
| Watts and power Most tube amps don't have "guts" in the bass due to low damping factor. You may prefer that or you may not and that will be room / speaker dependent. Bandwidth also plays a role, as well as the match between the amp and speaker. You can have an ... | |
| Cartridge loading I have no doubt that an unstable phono will have problems with spurious HF info but I do not see the cartridge ever generating anything in the megahertz realm to excite this. I do not see anyone debating that a loaded MC cartridge will stiffen i... | |
| Which belt-driven table to play Rock vinyl? We make a great belt drive turntable, the Atma-Sphere 208, but I'll be the first to tell you that the Technics SL1200G is a better machine. It comes with its own arm which is pretty good but it totally justifies any top end tonearm. I like to use ... | |
| Cartridge loading I for one would love to see documentation of the ability of a cartridge to generate a 1MHz signal to excite this resonance.Quite simply it does not need to! Audio energy can cause the excitation. A resonant circuit can be driven into excitation wi... | |
| Cartridge loading What I am interested in is the underlying explanation why a cartridge doing more work will necessarily have this "limited ability to trace higher frequencies"It will be stiffer, less compliant. |