atmasphere
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| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! Modern pro drivers (and even ones decades old) are extremely well designed, and used within their design parameters - not least actively - will yield no effective problems with breakup modes. @phusis I've run into breakups in older designs (like... | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! @deep_333 You will need a low noise amp for that and also one that has low gain, otherwise the noise floor of the amp won't be much help. The Benchmark, while excellent, as over 30dB which means you'll notice noise from your front end. Our class ... | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! @deep_333 My concern would be breakups in the drivers, which cause distortion and harshness. PA stuff mostly does not care about that sort of thing since sound pressure is the main goal. But its a big deal with home audio speakers, where such thin... | |
| surprising comparison of tube preamps So is your point leading to any reason to believe that integrated units have an advantage? Any, or would they need to be fully balanced from input to output? @akgwhiz To the first, perhaps; integrated amps do have the advantage that a passive... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? Without talking about cables made with unobtainium, where did you start hear a difference. @curiousjim The first time I heard a power cable make a difference was at CES in 1990. I was visiting George Cardas where he was showing of a set of Magn... | |
| Eliminated my preamp with amazing results If the DAC has an amplified signal, which I agree it does, why do I need to add a second line gain in the preamp? @gdaddy1 Obviously you don't :) Many DACs don't do as well as yours appears to. The reason I will always have a preamp is because... | |
| Harman kardon a300 rebuild The hot can (cardboard wrapped) is made by GE and its specs are printed on the can as 60-100 micro farads at 350v. I’m concerned about the range of uF as I need to specify a uF rating for them to build a new one. Should I specify 100uF or somethi... | |
| surprising comparison of tube preamps I am wondering if people have an explanation for this but, more importantly, have been looking into getting a very simple tube pre to use for the phono part of the system. Mapletree audio sells a simple preamp that I believe is a SET OTL (are all... | |
| Eliminated my preamp with amazing results My understanding is that it has 2 main functions. #1 is to control volume. #2 is allow selection of various source components. A very good question, @gdaddy1 which you almost answer completely, but I’d say a little off. Besides source selecti... | |
| Someone that can recap/refurbish/recalibrate a direct drive turntable motor? If there are variable speed controls, either external or internal, they may need a shot of Deoxit in the green and black can. I've seen controls get noisy and cause exactly the complaint described. Photos I've seen of this machine don't show speed... | |
| 15 in full range drivers With certain music, (vocals) they are beautiful, but other music can be fatiguing. Wife can only take them at lower volumes. @zagorskia This is unavoidable if you do not have a crossover. I know that a crossover is anathema to 'full range dri... | |
| Dc voltage sent to my speakers My experience with tube preamps is very limited, but the one or two that I played with had a tiny bit of DC on the output. In the range of 5mV or less. @erik_squires Some preamps like the Dynaco PAS3 make a small amount of DC like that but its... | |
| Dc voltage sent to my speakers If a preamp is outputting a little DC, is it always because of faulty output coupling caps? Should those caps always be expected to block all DC? I had one tube preamp that would trip the protection circuit of one of my amplifiers due to DC lea... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? I understand what you are saying; however I personally think I might describe that as accuracy more than musical. Not to protract this any further, but I am good with Webster’s definition (paraphrasing) of musical having to do with being pleasing... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? Anyway, you also provided a definition of "more musical" as sounding like "real music" [Quotation marks are mine]. By "real music", do you mean as it sounds in the audience of a large colliseum or at the mixing board? Or do you mean as it sounds ... |