atmasphere
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| 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.... | |
| Which 300b amplifier for Devore O/96 To state a fairly obvious point, I would just suggest that you make a point of including recordings having particularly wide dynamic range in your assessment. Such as many recordings of classical symphonic music, if you listen to that type of m... | |
| Bass management with stand alone preamps @mijostyn You are correct in what you say, but if you use a distributed bass array you don't have such profound problems with the bass changing as you move the speakers; much of that is due to standing waves. So this makes getting the bass right a... | |
| Which 300b amplifier for Devore O/96 @essrand If I were you I'd be open to more than just the Nagra, but out of your list that would be the one. I personally don't think 20 watts would be enough power though. I see 30 watts as a minimum on my speakers and 60 watts is a lot nicer. I d... | |
| Speakers under $50k that rival $200k+ speakers? @smodtactical Classic Audio Loudspeakers (CARs) are made in Brighton, MI. The models T3 and T1 are three-way speakers employing two bass drivers, a midrange horn and compression driver tweeter.http://classicaudioloudspeakers.com/cgi-bin/index.pl... |