atmasphere
Responses from atmasphere
| Best Preamp round $8000 @topfinadv Are you looking for balanced or single-ended? | |
| SUT vs. Phono preamp If you are on a budget I would go with an SUT, if you plan to use a low output cartridge. If budget is no concern, I would go with a good phono section capable of low output cartridge operation. There is more than just noise to be concerned about.... | |
| Restored Rek-O-Kut L-34 Available Locally - Any Opinions on This Table Appreciated IIRC this is an idler drive and the motor is notorious for needing a warm-up before it goes to the right speed. In addition, it lacks a plinth and so needs to be mounted on a base. Usually wood is used because it looks nice, but this allows the ba... | |
| Advise on Long Phono Cable run The problem here isn't that the length, so much as it is capacitance! Even with a balanced connection, the physics are a bit different than it is with a microphone; the capacitance of the cable and the inductance of the cartridge make a tuned circ... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive WRT to platter mats, the concept that materials cannot absorb/attenuate vibration is not correct. @antinn I suspect you misread my post, as you and I are on the same page w.r.t this statement; it is the same point I was making (or at least was at... | |
| 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 ... |