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| Balanced vs RCA between amp/preamp Balanced are designed for professional use. That is why they are designed with the ground making contact first- professional use sees a lot of stuff being connected/disconnected while powered up. Making the ground connection first avoids the lo... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? I switched to a tube preamp using some great NOS tubes that rolled off the highs a bit, but still sound very open (RCA Blackplates). Strings were finally sounding very natural, and it was now easier to tell which cds were poor recordings.Get b... | |
| SET amplifier recommendation That’s an interesting point, Ralph, which I presume derives mainly from the bandwidth limitations imposed by output transformers when they are used in SET configurations.Would the bandwidth limitations you refer to apply to the small signal ban... | |
| SET amplifier recommendation How different is the sound between 300b and 805 (LM 508AI, etc)? With SETs, the bigger the amp the less bandwidth. 300b is about as powerful as an SET can get and still be considered 'hifi' as far as bandwidth goes. | |
| SET amplifier recommendation The B&W speakers are voiced for SS amplification and are never going to sound their best with tube amplification; possibly with the exception of a pair of Atma-Sphere OTL monoblocks. We’ve got several customers that are very happy with this co... | |
| SET amplifier recommendation The speaker is a problem for almost any SET. But you've not exhausted all your options. You could also go OTL. Its possible to have many of the advantages of SETs (magical inner detail, amazing midrange) without some of the disadvantages (low powe... | |
| Cartridges that get strings right? I’m intrigued about the comments about tracking. Getting the fundamental and the overtones right (for those who like statistics: I suspect “right” has a lot to do with an even transfer in the frequency domain and minimal phase distortions in th... | |
| Jupiter Copper Foil, Paper & Wax Cap Versus Jensen Cap 0.10uF 630Vdc Copper Foil Ceramic Has anyone tried Jupiter Copper Foils bypassed with a V-cap CuTF? Just curious if a .01uF V-cap would benefit a Jupiter CF with its resolving and leading edge detail or will it detract from the Jupiter's already beautiful organics?It really do... | |
| Pass amp paired with audio research pre? Thank you for your note! Hypothetical. Trying to think about where I should go with future purchases. I live in the sticks. Not much opportunity to listen to other components. I try to read and ask questions. Been thinking about audio research re... | |
| My Cary amp - the story of a hum and a bug @fiftyfifty,I am associated with a company that makes amplifiers. If this was one of our products, we would ship the fix for free with instructions of how to install it that could be executed by any competent technician. No company is perfect; nei... | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations Providing the big hall sound does mean a tradeoff. Pinpoint imaging is sacrificed along with the single position ultimate sweet spot.My system does not seem to have that tradeoff. I get pinpoint imaging along with a huge soundstage- the bigger th... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? Example:Pass Int 250 DON'T leave class A till 15 W and has all the extra class A/B reserve up to 500 W into 4 ohms! Why would a 30 W class A be a better choice over the 250 W A/B??? If 99% of the time I am only playing music at about 2 Watt( u... | |
| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong Ralph, not meant to be insulting, but couldn't you sell your products for a lot less? Nothing there that's cutting edge, though I do understand that highest quality parts cost significantly moreAnd wouldn't the GaN input buffers need to be a lot... | |
| Pass amp paired with audio research pre? I think it will work great, just make sure the "output impedance" of the AR preamp is at least 10 x lower than the "input impedance" of the Pass amp.The thing to look at is the output impedance at 20Hz, which is often considerably higher than it... | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations JBL Monitors are the obvious choice to get the "70's" sound if thats what your after. These were the speakers used in almost every studio to create the albums from that time period...hence the term "Studio Monitors". So THIS is the sound as was... |