atmasphere
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| Quad Balanced Pre-Amp 'quad-balanced' appears to be a marketing term for their DACs.Odd that its a balanced preamp and doesn't have balanced inputs for the phono, since phono cartridges are balanced sources. | |
| Help with Electron Kinetics Eagle 400 amps. Schematic please. They can be tricky to fix! I repaired one about 25 years ago (but after the designer disappeared) and even then schematics were almost impossible.You're simply going to have to test every semiconductor in the amp (and if need be, out of circuit) i... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? Very interesting post. Why is it that you think that the DBX folks won't even consider the type of amp your are suggesting in a DBX trial? @daveyf because the difference is instantly audible and they inherently don't like amps that aren't perfe... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? Feel free to augment or quibble, but I would call an "objectively audible difference" between amplifiers as follows: when the equipment is gain-matched to be sure the difference is not simply due to different overall volume levels, listeners ... | |
| From tubes back to SS? I never got to hear that one except at a CES where I met Mr. Bedini. He was giving out a publication he created about free energy.And of course earlier I meant 'kid' when I wrote 'kit'.... :) | |
| Modded or stock Technics SL1200G jbrrp I also use a funk firm mat I had to get the 3mm one because the 5mm one I had was too tall for the Triplanar, not alot of room to lower the arm on this table. I had to get a board from Greece and drill it myself because no one in the US w... | |
| Gobel and the Bending Wave Ah. I had thought that the Linaeum AMT was also the Linaeum bending wave tweeter, but apparently they are different. You can see the Lineaum bending wave tweeter in the first link you provided above. | |
| Gobel and the Bending Wave Sorry, AMT is not bending wave, Atmasphere. It's motion is pistonic, although at an angle. :) IMHO, to be a bending wave, the transducer must be excited at one end, and have the sound wave emit off the surface as the wave travels from one end t... | |
| Speakers under $50k that rival $200k+ speakers? Directly or indirectly Ralph is affiliated with both Classic Audio and Sound Labs, so of course they are great speakers.I walk my talk. I've shown with both companies at shows, because they make great speakers. Beyond showing with them I have no a... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? I have admitted I sometimes hear differences between amps, but, after reviewing evidence (incomplete?) I am also open to the possibility those were explainable by power/obvious artifacts or simply not objectively audibleWhat is 'objectively au... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. I would say that the it went so far that the audio magazines adversely changed the design of speakers and the values of the designers. The tail wagging the dog. ^^ This.All transistor amplifiers (maybe, except pure class A) have thermal distorti... | |
| Do electrolytic caps need burn in? Once the electrolytic has formed up, it should work about as well as the film caps in a coupling cap situation, so long as its biased correctly. To this end, whatever AC voltage is being sent through it as an audio signal should never exceed the D... | |
| From tubes back to SS? I started with tubes when I was a kit, and literally pulled gear from dumpsters and rebuilt it because I had no money.Friends on mine in high school were all like- 'when are you going to get into the space age?' as if all aerospace gear was someho... | |
| Trouble joining "Insider"? They asked me to join 'Insiders' for free, on account of my being on this site for so long. But the link didn't work, so no Insider. | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. IMO/IME low efficiency speakers are next door to criminal. On top of the thermal distortion issue, they cause you to need a high powered amp, and IME one of those that actually sounds like music is a rare beast indeed.Also IME higher efficiency sp... |