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| 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... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 Right, and this is the basis of MP3 compression, among other things. Why do you think the masking principle benefits tubes?? I thought I had explained that enough, but nutshell explanations can be tricky. Essentially though the tubes have enough 2... | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load A class D amp can do 2 ohms if the intention is there on the account of the designer. Several things have to be present to really make this so.* the amplifier must have sufficient current handling ability in the output transistors and power supply... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? Its a simple fact that if the front end of the system doesn't get it right, the best amps and speakers downstream won't win you any of the lost signal. For this reason I do feel that a good tube preamp is paramount. But tubes bring something to th... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 Pass Labs admittedly and intentionally adds some even order harmonic distortion to all their amp designs. This is commonly known to be perceived by humans as a euphonic overall sound quality similar to tube amps, which many devoted Pass fans ... | |
| Demo'ing Class A amps, Appreciation Suggestions from those who recently been there Well I think you will still have the mini blast furnace affect with the class A XA25.That's the thing about class A. People have often commented about the heat they think our amps make, but compared to a true class A solid state amp of the same po... | |
| Cartridge recommendation for classical listening You may indeed be right about the inductance and capacitance, but it was much easier to change cartridges.Since you now have a different cartridge, but apparently also high output, the same rules apply. You might like it now, but if loaded properl... | |
| Turntable Mats: Rubber, Felt or Cork. So atmasphere, the obvious question for us non-scientists. What material(s) have the same, or very similar, hardness as a typical vinyl LP?I'm not a fan of acrylic, but it can be made to have a similar hardness as vinyl. An LP would do nicely b... | |
| What’s a 10k to 15k speaker from smaller company that performs well? Classic Audio Loudspeakers. We showed with them at the Tampa show in February- AVShowrooms gave us 'Best Sound at Show', which is not the first time that's happened. Very nice speakers; easy to drive. | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load Like I said so many times now, a "stable" amp into 2ohm load means it won’t oscillate blow up and take out speaker drivers, but it does not mean it can drive the loads we are talking about here. Yes.'Stability' only refers to oscillation or the ... | |
| Demo'ing Class A amps, Appreciation Suggestions from those who recently been there That speaker is very tube friendly. We have a good number of Tannoy customers using our M-60s (60 watts class A) with them. | |
| Cartridge recommendation for classical listening Since the high end of the cartridge tends to be a little bright (which you might not agree with,) records that have a bright high end of their own are exacerbated by volume increase. @rvpiano As I mentioned earlier, if you have a high output ca... | |
| Turntable Mats: Rubber, Felt or Cork. Here are the mechanical requirements for a good mat:It must have the same hardness (durometer) as the LP, so vibration from the LP can be absorbed (without reflection) and converted to heat. To this end it will affect tonality if too hard or too s... |