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| Affordable Decent Preamp & thoughts on Emotiva XSP-1 vs PS Audio Stellar Gain Stage If you are considering a balanced preamp, its helpful (to reduce noise and colorations) if it supports the balanced standard. I've found over the years that most consumer preamps that are balanced don't actually support the standard. The thing is,... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong And this, folks, is why this hobby is in a death spiral. Stupidly expensive gear with adherents that can "hear" all sorts of artifacts and distortions which they focus on to the detriment of enjoying the music. Had a very interesting chat wit... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? The resonance is a bit high - 7 hz ish That's on the low side. The window is 7-12Hz. | |
| Help? Problem With Holding The Groove On A Hot Pressing Is there any plausibility that these hot grooves found later in a side would be a result of the physics of cutting? None whatsoever. The physics of cutting is that the cutterhead responds exactly the same to bass notes at the beginning of the LP a... | |
| Y No YG ? Too much lab, not enough listening? One year at RMAF YG was distributing leaflets that they made the Best Speaker. Now as we English speakers know, The Best means there can be only One, so I figured it might be worth a listen :) I brought a CD up ... | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations 2 more things...the PureAudioProject requires about 5 hours of assembly (super easy!!!), they will totally FILL your 20x 30 foot room, they are 96 dB efficient, and you can drive them with as little as a 3 -8 watt tube amp... which is what they... | |
| My 1st Tube Equipment Experience I was researching the viability of using an RCA to XLR cable, with RCA on the Herron and XLR on the M22. Might that help, or is it a bad idea.It won't make any difference. What might help though is to make sure you have a jumper installed in the... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. They actually recommenced replacing the socket with each tube renewal!The original Russian spec sheet called for 750 hours! In practice I've seen the tube outlast the socket.Now I see M Mathews is offering them for $142 so this is either new prod... | |
| Amp change/upgrade for JBL4367 (94dB 2Way with Horn tweeter & 15" woofer) In most rooms a 60 watt tube amp would do nicely on a speaker like that.i have found that the JBL's love current. If you drive this speaker with a 100 watts, because its 6 ohms the current will be slightly less than 4.1 amps. It won't matter what ... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. The 6C33 is a nice sounding tube. The real issue with it is 2-fold:1) its been out of production for about 20 years. The tooling was destroyed with the plant that made it so there won't be any reissues. 2) the tube was designed to use the socket f... | |
| Why no Class D integrated love? (from manufacturers) Muti-inputs corrupt the signal to a degree and this is more noticeable with Class D because of it's purist design. This is nonsense.Another thing, I'm surprised these designers are making the boards as small as they are. My design is going to hav... | |
| Is dedicated PreAmp with Oppo 105 needed? Not sure how a 2-ch stereo preamp with a HT Bypass works. But ideally I should be able to connect Oppo’s Stereo XLR/ RCA for music & 5 out of 7.1 RCA Audio for movies to my Parasound A51.You don't actually need a HT bypass switch. You can us... | |
| Can I use 2 two channel amps to run a 3 channel system? leaving one side of an amp unused If a tube amp you might be able to remove the input tube of the unused channel- that would remove the need for a dummy load at the output (which is not needed on all tube amps BTW). You might also be able to remove the output tubes of that channel... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. What amplifier are you referring to? What I was pointing out is that George’s statement about 100 amps referred to the solid state ME 1400 and ME 1500I just looked on the manufacturer's website- and didn't realize it shows a different model. App... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. ^^ Clearly the 100 amp thing has nothing to do with its output power. That is likely the 10mS power supply short circuit current. |