atmasphere
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| Gobel and the Bending Wave The Air Motion Transformer was a bending wave, so is the tweeter used in the High Emotion Audio loudspeakers. Very nice and fast, smooth due to no breakups? | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? @mrdecibel Its on this thread too:No, in my limited experience, I often don't hear the difference between amplifiers (with the exception of underpowered or tube-bloated amps)The comment is ridiculous, but one that is common in this debate, as if... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? I may be missing something (point it out to me), but there’s almost no convincing evidence out there to support repeatably audible differences between high quality cables or amps The differences have to do with distortion. This is easy to measure,... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? And if you disagree, and can prove an audible difference under his conditions (gain matching), he's offering a pair of his top-of-the-line speakers (see the first few posts). That sounds nice. Might run short on speakers after a while...Like sh... | |
| Solid state AB amp? Thought that class A could be running aloneatmasphere would you explain what that means?class A means that the output transistors never go into cutoff. In your case the output transistors cutoff at slight more than half of the output waveform. Th... | |
| backert vs sachs preamp Joseph Chow of Audio Horizons also has a capacitor-less preamp called The VRX. This preamp uses coupling transformers instead. @majorc The Quicksilver is easy to drive- you'll be fine with either preamp! | |
| Solid state AB amp? In that regard, its probably only running off of the driver transistors rather than the output devices. | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? I am sorry, but neither Pass nor Curl can compete at the top level. Perhaps they are doing something wrong.:) Nelson's SIT amplifiers are some of the best sounding out there. But they are only available in kit form IIRC. SITs went out of producti... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? If you want to hear an amplifier sound "different" get a tube amp with an output impedance of several ohms! Ohm's Law rules here! A frequency response that will follow the varying impedance of the typical speaker.There is far more to it than tha... | |
| Bass management with stand alone preamps it’s interesting there hasn’t been a Linux-type standard that breaks the rules within the rules being put out there for others to use. +1 big fan of Linux | |
| Which 300b amplifier for Devore O/96 the bottom line would seem to be that when playing recordings having the kind of dynamic range you described (about 32 db) you are not hearing the Franks at their best. ^^ This.If you really want to hear what any SET does, to really do them jus... | |
| Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... 2.5 - Way speakers tend to sound better than 3-Ways IME. The only affordable 3-ways I can imagine living with are Vandersteens. I find the opposite to be true.So it would appear that execution has a lot more to do with it, as is so with many thing... | |
| Bass management with stand alone preamps No, I meant with the sub woofer.Yes- Sound Lab used to make the B1 subwoofer, which was a large electrostatic panel. These are the best ESLs you can buy at this time. Agreed. IMO they are also one of the top five speakers made anywhere. | |
| Bass management with stand alone preamps ^^ I don't see the B1 listed there either... Dr West is the designer of the Sound Lab loudspeakers. | |
| Bass management with stand alone preamps They project a large as life sound stage. With woofers set up like this the bass sounds just as big and powerful as the SoundLabs except the SoundLabs become cleaner and are capable of another 10 db or so if you care to crack all your windows.... |