atmasphere
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| tube pre-amp for active monitors If you want a tube preamp for that kind of money you are probably looking at something used and vintage. | |
| 30 Watts of class A power: What Speakers are you using and suggesting? I don’t want to muddy the waters with budget am asking what you are all using and I’ll use that information so make/ model works well. Well then. Classic Audio Loudspeakers Project T3.3 field coil drivers; no worries flat to 20Hz with dual 15"... | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load The more general point is that the sound character is largely determined by the speaker, closely followed by the recording. Most good amps today have superb specs and sound fairly close to each other. @viber6 Actually this isn't true. It is t... | |
| power amp/pre amp input and output impedence question @kgveteran Yup! Sometimes the output impedance of some preamps isn't all that low (particularly tube preamps) even though on the right setup it can sound pretty nice. In some cases the manufacturer might not have even measured it. We don't specify... | |
| TRL WON'T GIVE ME MY AMP ^^ Dang! I wish I had known that years ago. We had several pieces stolen essentially due to the internet. | |
| tube pre-amp for active monitors Could be. And there are balanced tube preamps available too. What is your budget and do you need a phono section? | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load Wilson, Thiel, ML esl’s, MBL, Sonus Faber JM labsOf these only the Thiel is really difficult to drive. We have customers with Wilson, Martin Logan and JM Labs. And we make tube amps that don't double power or even act as a voltage source. The mbls... | |
| 30 Watts of class A power: What Speakers are you using and suggesting? Do you have a budget? | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load Sez you, some of the very best are insanely hard to drive, and why class-d, OTL and you have a problem with that.Sez the specs of all amps. Obviously this statement is misleading; George is cherry picking. On the one hand he likes to trot out Ster... | |
| power amp/pre amp input and output impedence question what effect can be expected from a miss match.What does an output impedence of 1.2k ohm say to the expert......If the ratio is less than 10:1 you might have less headroom before the preamp makes distortion. There would also be more overall distort... | |
| Which stereo amp to try under $30k - Prefer not tubes (already have a tube line stage - too hot for small children and don't fit in rack)- I'm ok with a colored sound. Prefer musicality and realism over "accuracy" or "neutrality"- Needs an absolute minimum of 150W based on how loud... | |
| What Class D amps will drive a 2 ohm load By all means please show the do’s in Class-D, hopefully independently tested, impedance v rms wattage all at just before clipping into 8, 4 and 2ohms, the same distortion figures.Ha! That's pretty funny! **No** amplifier will have the same disto... | |
| I need some techy help in order a preamp--resistor values. I've used passives and a slew of actives for 40+ years. Each has a sound. Each interacts with cables and associated electronics. There is no free lunch.SMD resistors have lower inductance and thus have a different sound than leaded parts. Howe... | |
| power amp/pre amp input and output impedence question The rule of thumb is the input impedance should be at least 10 times the output impedance!'Input impedance' referring to the amp, 'output impedance' referring to the preamp. | |
| High value, giant killer speakers? Audiokinesis (Duke) has made giant killers for a long time.His Dreammakers are better than many speakers that cost 3 times more. They are also easy to drive which always helps keep amplifier distortion down. Very neutral, nice extension, excellent... |