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| Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other??? And from Merrill Audio who use the higher switching speed" Internally the Element 118 Power Amplifier Monoblock PCB boards are manufactured to the highest excellence available and further engineered for sustaining a most stable temperature dist... | |
| why a high end phono preamp? Are all stand along phono preamps both MC and MM? If a person knew they were only going to be using MM can a MM preamp only be purchased, perhaps even at a price that reflects it not having the not necessary MC electronics?Most inexpensive pho... | |
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? phantom_av- it has been years since I have listened to Atma-sphere. I will check into them. Per their website, the preamps do not appear to have a remote, which is important to me.A remote is available for both the MP-1 and MP-3. | |
| Is there an actual difference between AB and A/AB ? No- you got it. If its not class A, then its AB (or in some rare cases, B). There is also AB1 and AB2 (which mostly applies to tubes depending on whether grid current exists in the output tubes during part of the waveform).But there is no such thi... | |
| Vintage Tube Amplifiers - Any good? Some consoles were pretty good. Many were terrible!But there are plenty of vintage amps that sound great on modern speakers:Harmon Kardon Citation 2, Dynaco St-70, Marantz model 8 and model 9, Fisher, HH Scott and so on. Any of them would need the... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? Partly correct, but for many years horn systems have included "phase plugs" or their equivalent to keep horns from "beaming" high frequencies.This statement is problematic. Phase plugs are used to prevent cancellation at higher frequencies, thus... | |
| Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other??? You can buy your own EPC GaN boards from Digikey, and yes they operate with no heatsink. Because EPC’s Steve Colino said to me, (and I posted up his email), they are at 600khz switching speed, you can increase that to 1 or 1.5mhz as Steve said,... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound @mitch21. What characteristics of a power cord would affect voltage (i.e., cause a voltage drop) - is that primarily a function of resistance and wire gauge, or something else, and 2. What characteristics of a power cord would affect bandwidth? ... | |
| Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other??? The Class-D is just going to be a money spinner for him, he buys the modules does a small mod so it can be said to be better, throws in in a box, and there’s his beer money. @georgehifiJust for the record, this statement of yours from the beginn... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound I’m just generally curious what is going on scientifically speaking. Furthermore, once we understand the phenomena then we can design and tweak to produce the results we want. For example, maybe the gauge of the copper fully explains the effect. I... | |
| How do you properly set up a horn speaker ^^ +1 | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. But other than possible tube noise floor raising...is the actual sound likely to alter in any way as tubes age?Yes. If their transconductance falls below the minimum values, the performance will suffer and can affect things like bandwidth, distor... | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance -- Potential Solution Question is will the somewhat high output impedance of the amp still affect the bass negatively?Probably not, unless slightly enhanced bass is seen as a negative. It won't be by much though.Overall impedance showing in my multi-meter is 4.1 ohm.Th... | |
| Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic Atmosphere....kindly post your findings.....I have a balanced system, am using Doug's system with no Y connectors made by AudioSensibilies, and have experienced a great improvement from regular XLR'sI will. BTW I'm pretty sure the Aesthetix prea... | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? Understanding these design differences will go a long way towards setup of both tonearms. If anyone is toasting carts on an ET2 they have no idea how to set it up. Sounds to me like your dealers were Personality Type B...8^0. @ct0517Looking back... |