atmasphere
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| 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... | |
| Cartridge loading The question is so what if at the end you can reach a natural balance? If you cannot, sth is wrong or substandard.Yes. | |
| Reference Full Function Tube Preamplifier A number of years ago I owned an MP-3, the sound of which I really enjoyed. However, I found the manual stepped volume attenuator (24 position I believe) insufficient to dial in the correct volume, often a bit too low or too loud, varying track... | |
| Cartridge loading I listened to all them with and with out the damping mechanism and differences are not small.Damping mechanism?? If you are talking about the damping trough on the arm, you have missed the point of the conversation between @bydlo and myself entirely. | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? Can you read your full last paragraph? Yes- in rereading it, it makes sense to me... However overly low impedance can accentuate ringing. I get the impression you would be familiar with snubber circuits? It is similar to a resistor in series with ... |