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| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? ^^ Similar preamps are handmade using 6SN7s here in the US for similar or less money (shipping is cheaper). | |
| Tubes vs Solid State and the guilty party The war is between the listeners and the measurers. +1Until the measurement guys acknowledge the human hearing perceptual rules, that will continue to be the case. | |
| How to guarantee to lower noise- ground loops in your system Eliminating ground loops has more to do with product design than electrical wiring, the latter of which should simply be to code.If messing with already code wiring makes an improvement, that points to problems in the equipment itself.The balanced... | |
| Best Value Line Stage Tube Preamps? Given they are all multi-input, multi-output, balanced line stage tube preamps, what are sonic benefits of a serious Rogue RP-7 or Prima Luna EVO 400 vs. the $899 Schiit Freya Plus? FWIW none of these here support the balanced line standard. The... | |
| small footprint Class A mono blocks and pre amplifier Got 2 feet on each side and above each unit. Just don't have the depth. Does this mean you can't put the amps beside the speakers? 2 feet sounds like plenty of room. It is true that a class A amp is going to have troubles inside a cabinet. Class A... | |
| BEST S.S. AMP FOR TANNOY 15'' SPEAKERS The larger Tannoys are well suited for tube amplifiers as they are easy to drive and don't need much power. But if you really want to go solid state you first stop is a First Watt amplifier by Nelson Pass. They don't make a lot of power but unless... | |
| best phono stage under 10k Have you gone truly fully balanced - that normally deals with the RFI issues that you have.Just to be clear, RFI has more to do with errant rectification than it does single-ended or balanced. The only exception is if the rectified RFI is common t... | |
| My tube amp causes isolation transformer to buzz “The transformer can make significant distortion if loaded above 50%. That distortion can cause diodes and transformers downstream to become noisy”Sure. Harmonics are the result of distortion. The big nasty is the 5th harmonic (300Hz) which is t... | |
| My tube amp causes isolation transformer to buzz Variacs are not built with the intention to be particularly quiet. The only one that was to my understanding was made by MacIntosh back in the 1960s. Also something to be aware of with any isolation transformer- 50% of rated capacity is a safe lim... | |
| best phono stage under 10k @saxaudio1 One of the founders of BAT was one of our customers. He had our balanced preamp called the MP-1. It had the first and for a long time the only balanced line phono section in it. Since the cartridge is a naturally balanced source it see... | |
| best phono stage under 10k I bought a phono pream balanced audio technology and it was a headache for me, I could never remove the noise, I had zesto, ayre, parasound jc3, cary, I just want to buy something better, and keep it for a long time.what phono preamp do you re... | |
| Amp suggestion for my Audio Note Es Audio Note speakers are very tube friendly of course so you have many options. We have a good number of customers using them. Although they are easy to drive due to mild phase angles and fairly efficient drivers, they do like a bit of power- 60 wa... | |
| Preamps with Dual XLR Outputs am not sure if a tube preamp would work well with the Yamaha NS 5000 speaker. I am also not sure if I would get the benefit of super low noise floor of the Benchmark AHB2 with a tube preamp. @yyzsantabarbara A good tube preamp had better not b... | |
| Preamps with Dual XLR Outputs @yyzsantabarbara The Atma-Sphere MP-3 and MP-1 both have dual balanced outputs and no worries driving low impedances. FWIW Atma-Sphere made the first balanced line preamps anywhere way back in 1989.A tip: If your preamps supports the balanced line... | |
| Resistors vs.peltz Autoformer- Differences I was just curious as to the differences between the two methods with regards to how it affects an amps performance, as well as the resulting sound performance of a speaker.Does this make sense? I'm probably using the wrong words but hopefully ... |