atmasphere
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| How much difference will a phono stage upgrade make? A good phono section will have less ticks and pops even though it is wider bandwidth. Its always nice to find out that your LP collection isn’t as bad off as you thought it was.What most people don’t realize is that the phono preamp, in addition t... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr Electrostatics have numerous issues...power handling and shrillness on some recordings. They are good, but tend to be very tiring to listen to over time and at volume. This depends, like so many things, on execution. Sound Labs have no problem... | |
| Impact of phase inversion by preamp Nothing is completely passive. The more revealing the circuitry, the more it exposes component 'flaws'.Experience with phase flip switches in active and passive balanced hardware often left something to be desired in terms of routing and hence i... | |
| can someone answer me this..... Have you had the tubes tested? Bad tubes (weak) can cause exactly the problem you describe. | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr We've been in business 43 years. Over that time, we've had lots of customers with ESLs- OTLs and ESLs have been the match made in heaven (sound wise, anyway) since the ESL57 was first introduced.I've heard a lot of ESLs with our amps at customer's... | |
| tube pre amp plus solid state power amps? How will a Cary SLP98 800k ohms - output work with a Pass Aleph 2 - 10kOhms input (unbalanced) I think it will be OK ? The Pass is over x10 the output of the Cary. Usually the issue is the output impedance at 20Hz. In this case, the Cary is abou... | |
| Impact of phase inversion by preamp In a balanced preamp the phase switch simply redirects the inverted phase to the non-inverted circuitry and vice versa. Its completely passive.With many recordings the correct position is inaudible, owing to the recording being multi-tracked and m... | |
| Speaker wants 100 watt RMS. Is 40 watt tube OK? Is there some law of physics I missed in school? This may be sorta true in some cases, with some amps but it's far from a universal conversion factor. I can think of many circumstances with my own gear collection where this is absolutely not ... | |
| What is your favorite tube type? However, a well designed 300B should sound different than a well designed KT88. Well, triodes do sound better than pentodes, plain and simple- at the same power levels. KT88s are capable of a bit more power than 300bs. Most people run 300bs singl... | |
| What is your favorite tube type? A lot depends on how these tubes are used- and the output transformer (or no transformer at all) as well! | |
| Pre and Amp Suggestions The 6H30 is based on the 6922 in many ways- they are both frame-grid triodes, and IME have a similar microphonic 'iridescence'. If you really want to hear a good tube for a line section in a preamp, look for a preamp using a 6SN7. Unlike the 6922 ... | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations Curious, then why don’t speaker manufacturers do this? Wouldn’t they want their gear to sound the best possible? @rockadannyHonestly, I think they are pushing to go 4 ohms and lower to give the appearance of the speaker being easy to drive because... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong @kijanki Thanks for your elucidation of some of what's involved with surface mount. I think a lot of people think that since we make tube gear by hand that somehow that means we don't have an education or something- or don't keep up with the times... | |
| Again the topic of weight of amps Do you think I'm correct in assuming the high powered 1,200 watt class D monos with damping factors >1,000, that power my Magnepan 2.7QR main speakers, could be beneficial on the leading edges of bass notes and, combined with the more natura... | |
| Eico HF-81 question for those that have one and moved on from it or returned @gawgaboy Just be careful to be sure that the power transformer can support the extra filament current. |