atmasphere
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| 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! | |
| MBL 101 (~1990) - amp suggestions. Also explains why Aleph 4 was not happy, it can live with 4 Ohm, but not with 2 Ohm.So ML 23 is a decent match, and an amp doubling output down to 1 Ohm could be worth a try.What is important is that the amp be able to act as a voltage source. It ... | |
| The Hifi Trajectory Of Class D Amplifiers Its been interesting to read this thread after several years. In only 4 years since this thread was started we see that class D has improved quite a lot. This fact is a simple proof that the technology wasn't (and likely isn't now) mature. We deve... | |
| Power Amp advice atmasphere: Thanks for the encouragement. 3 days and still silent. Yes I am still contemplating an upgrade. Before putting the HCA on the market, though, I think I will have it recapped, as a visual inspection shows signs of a need.I presume, g... | |
| Reel to reel Grand Master shows up in the manual as 2 Bias, and 2 EQ, the same as Benjie recommended.All the new tape formulations are set up so you don't have to tweak the bias or EQ. The Ampex Grand Master became the gold standard in the old days so its a g... | |
| MBL 101 (~1990) - amp suggestions. This speaker is not that hard to drive; its efficiency appears low because most of the sound does not get to the microphone that is placed only one meter away.You can drive it quite successfully with tubes. But a lot depends on the size and liveli... | |
| AYRE VX-5 TWENTY- WHICH TUBE PREAMP MATCHS I assume you mean by “balanced standard” that there are conpanies that incorporate XLR jacks but that they have single ended circuitry, as opposed to fully balanced designs such as those by Ayre and Aestestix?Actually no. A component can suppor... | |
| ***Is It Me Or Have Todays Modern Tubes Gotten REALLY REALLY Good*** We designed all of our stuff to work with the garden variety of available tubes. Why saddle the customer with the need for a tube that is difficult to get?My experience has been that the Chinese signal tubes are pretty good but for power tubes the... |