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| BSR Turntable If trying to refurbish old rubber parts, brake fluid is what you soak it in, not water. Give it about 2 weeks. If the belt is cracked this won't help it of course... | |
| Need a preamp? Then they are kidding themselvesActually they aren't. Loss of impact is the most common complaint aimed at passive controls (the exception being when the control is already in the power amplifier). Loss of impact is a coloration. The problem is th... | |
| Anyone Here Have Atma-Sphere Amps? Atmasphere, The lower the impedance the less efficient a speaker becomes. Transformerless SS amps respond to this by putting out more power and as long as their output sections can handle it and the power supplies can dish it out everyone is ha... | |
| Recommendation for higher power tube amp If the amp that drives the Theil no longer has to make power for the bass, there will be more power for everything else.IME this is a really tricky way to go since active electronic crossover (which is what you need to see to it that your amp for ... | |
| Tube Amps Watts vs SS amp My understanding is that the concept of “bandwidth” is very important. Perhaps more important for tube amps than solid state. But I have a First Watt SIT-3 which is a low watt solid state amp. It apparently has some bandwidth to it because it driv... | |
| Anyone Here Have Atma-Sphere Amps? @joeinid Horns aren't a problem including AvantGardes- a review is on our S-30 page. We have an adapter we use to reduce the gain of the amplifier for use with really high efficiency loudspeakers (it replaces at tube in the voltage amplifier). It ... | |
| Considering switching to Tubes B&W's don't have the reputation for being all that tube friendly.While this is true, the 805s are an exception. We've had a number of customers using 805s with our M-60 amplifiers so its a friendly load for almost any tube amp. | |
| Tube Amps Watts vs SS amp In this particular case the 87 db spec is stated to be based on an input of 1 watt, rather than on an input of 2.83 volts. Also, as I mentioned in my previous post the brochure for the speaker states that an input of 8 watts results in an SPL of 9... | |
| Need a preamp? Interesting since any active preamp would seem to add some colouration. That's a matter of intense debate. Many think that no preamp has its own colorations too (of which I mentioned earlier). | |
| Need a preamp? @jaferd For slightly more money you get better connectors and hand wiring:https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Input-2-Output-Audio-Video-AV-RCA-Selector-Splitter-Switcher-Box-Adapter-... | |
| Recommendation for higher power tube amp You have to check the input impedance of the sub in parallel with your amps and then see if the preamp is OK with that. | |
| Amplifier for Altec Valencia speakers I have to wonder what Atmasphere does with all the transformers he doesn't use. Donations to the transformerless among us? Yard sculpture? Paper weights?My mom always told me for every output transformer made, God kills a kitten. | |
| Anyone Here Have Atma-Sphere Amps? Given that and parts and you can see why they cost so much. Also Mr Karsten insists they are just fine driving loads down to 4 ohms. Now we can ask Mr Karsten, Ralph, why would an employee's set of M60s be red??@mijostyn Actually MA-3s can han... | |
| Need a preamp? Also, would either give worse sound than just switching the inputs manually and using the attenuator? Just for my own education, do passive preamp color the sound at all and what about cables? Are there any affordable, I mean in the 300 dollar ... | |
| Tube Amps Watts vs SS amp @bestbaker You might want to read this thread- it deals with exactly the same issues you are dealing with. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/recommendation-for-higher-power-tube-ampIn a nutshell since your speakers are 4 ohms the efficiency ... |