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| Best tube preamp ever What's meant by 'New Age'? Dueter is 'new age', but his early albums are less so... Michael Rother did some new age stuff, but his albums are mostly just cool (excluding the polydor era...). Steve Roach is considered New Age, but in the last 15 ye... | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. Before George points it out, the datasheet shown at the second link in his last post does in fact say "output current: 100 amps (continuous)," for the ME 1400/ME 1500 amplifiers referred to in that post (as opposed to the OTL amp referred to in... | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations @willgolf The Classic Audio Loudspeakers model T-3 or T-1 is something at which you might want to take a look.They are hybrid- using 15" woofers in a bass reflex cabinet, going down to 20Hz. The mids and highs are horns; overall the speaker is 98... | |
| Bendix 6106 burn-in behavior @roberjerman is correct- unless the idea of 'burn-in' is extended to the idea that some percentage of parts will suffer 'infant crib death' due to manufacturing defects, as is apparently so in this particular case. | |
| OTL amps, my pick for the tube used. Those 6C33s in the OP are too closely spaced for reliable operation. The 6C33 is a very hot running tube on account of its prodigious filament. We re-introduced the Novacron by popular demand, but its a simple fact that other tubes are a lot easie... | |
| Cassette tape the first link doesn't have cassette tape (or they ran out). I just repaired a tone arm for the owner of ATR Magnetics- she assured me that they do indeed have cassettes. I'm working on a Nakamichi 700 'Tri-Tracer' right now; just for the record ... | |
| Which Preamp Tube is most consequential: Input or Gain The input is where the circuit has to get it right. It doesn't matter how good things are downstream if the input fails to do its job as best it can! | |
| Proac 2.5 Response tweeter upgrade with Ribbon Tweeter? 2. If I want a speaker of this ’ilk’ (2 woofers + Tweeter and crossovers) that needs serious drive power then I would need to purchase a new amplifier. However, I would rather investigate other speaker options so that I do not need to change my... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? Thanks Ralph. Fwiw you have a way of making the complex easy to understand. Are/Were you also a teacher?I have taught a few classes but mainly I think I got that from working in consumer electronics repair while putting myself through engineering... | |
| Which Preamp Tube is most consequential: Input or Gain The input tubes are always the place to start. | |
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| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong For example, I’ve read that GaN transistors are capable of switching so fast they literally eliminate dead-time and any resulting distortion caused by it.If a designer believes that, its simply because the encoding scheme and related parts are s... | |
| Recommendations for a Phono Preamp Since you don't need that much gain on account of the SUT, a MM phono section will do the job. We make a little preamp called the UV-1; with a phono section its about 2300.00 and its phono section has been preferred over more expensive phono secti... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? Class A is a tool in the designer's box which allows for lower distortion.With all amplifiers, distortion is essentially what causes amps to sound different from each other, moreso than actual frequency response.The reason for this is that the ear... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong Calling it a digital amplifier is a lot closer to the truth than calling an analog amp. Not if you talk to a designer of a class D amp :)Switching is a bit different from digital. Digital has bits with which meaning (a sound signal) is imposed- ho... |