atmasphere
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| Vinyl vs high def audio i.e. 24bit / 96 or 192khz However, given the lack of willingness pursuit for quality products exhibited by today's younger generation, I fear less and less recording studio will be willing to spend time and effort to create a pure analog master tape. If you tell my sist... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? Yes.I am very used to playing entire album sides without ticks and pops.I don't use record cleaners either.What most people don't know, including phono preamp designers, is that the phono preamp itself is often responsible for about 90% of the tic... | |
| preamp As John Atkinson said in Stereophile when he measured the Sopra's, your going to need an amp with far more current than what your have to drive the bass properly, this will completely change the tonal balance, control and quality your hearing, ... | |
| Reel to reel Well one thing led to another and he offered me a mint B77 high speed unit for what I considered a very fair price considering he was shipping it from Switzerland to the USA!A capstan adapter can be used to change the speed on a deck. A number o... | |
| Isolation Transformers I am only concerned with front end equipment isolation i.e. low power requirement.@testpilot ,Why? From what are you wanting to isolate? | |
| preamp It’s not the preamp that’s the problem. It’s a great amp the Auris Forte 150 tube amp, unfortunately it’s with the wrong speaker, which btw is also a great speaker but with the wrong amp..This statement is false. The speaker is an easy load for ... | |
| ARC tube biasing ^^No.Would it be best to peg the the needle to about ever so slightly onto the positive side of the window past the bias target line to slightly compensate for the higher voltage, therefore theorically hitting the proper bias point when and if ... | |
| PP Ultralinear VS PP Pentode UltraLinear allows the output section to have the linearity of a triode with about 90% of the power of PP pentode. So you wind up making a lower distortion amplifier with UltraLinear. PP pentode tends to be a bit more aggressive especially if you ... | |
| Reel to reel Silly question possibly but.....Is there any way to increase the output voltage at the deck or to increase it going into the amp.Obviously without having any deleterious sonic effect.Often there is. As I mentioned earlier with most consumer decks ... | |
| Vinyl vs high def audio i.e. 24bit / 96 or 192khz ^^+1 | |
| I need bass Sounds like a job for a subwoofer. The best subs are made by Audiokinesis; the system is called 'The Swarm'. Its four rather small subwoofers. Two are placed near your regular speakers, the other two are placed asymmetrically in your room. The ide... | |
| Reel to reel They didn't. But the output is set by a trimmer control and it may have been set up to be a little hotter. | |
| Reel to reel If I had one criticism it would be its relatively low output to my amp, but I think that is likely fairly common issue in most vintage tape decks.Consumer decks (including cassette) are set to a 1.0 volt output generally. There was an expectatio... | |
| Vinyl vs high def audio i.e. 24bit / 96 or 192khz I've been reading a lot of chats between modern-day vinyl users. The final "nail to the coffin" that made me decide to continue my digital path is exactly what @atmasphere mentioned: the master file isn't even being used. I read that in many mo... | |
| A DIY Swarm-based Distributed Bass Array for SOTA Bass Nobody thinks of bass in terms of detail.Oh yes they do :) Bass definition (such as bass ambience) seems to me to the first thing that suffers if things aren't right. Good work and Kudos to Duke! |