atmasphere
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| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? 04-01-2019 11:22am:”I often recommend products that are not my own (as seen in this thread) [D. Sachs] and would be happy to recommend yours [Supratek’s] as well, provided I don’t have to worry about someone that took my recommendation getting mad... | |
| Who makes this Pre-amp? @cscrutinizerNot many tube preamps can drive headphones directly. Headphones typically have a 32 ohm impedance- that's a bit of a problem for tubes. Its a pretty short list as far as I know; our MP-1 preamp and the microzotl headphone amplifier ar... | |
| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? @steakster It might help to know my perspective is also that of a service technician. I started working at the Allied Radio service department near my house the day after I graduated from high school. I continued to work in consumer repair while I... | |
| amp clipping earlier than usual? Hey Ralph. Actually, that amp seems to be down about 2db. I switched sides to check. I have several of these sets so I'm certain.You switched amps, so it follows the amps? (2dB isn't much but if you didn't use a sound pressure meter for that I be... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? I am not sure I understand your last statement. Are you saying that zero feedback amps can supply more current and would do better driving low impedance loudspeakers?No. I am saying that some loudspeakers (like Sound Labs) don't need a very low ... | |
| amp clipping earlier than usual? Does the system sound OK and the channel to channel balance is good?If so, it could be a problem with the indicator itself. | |
| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? The internal photos comment, the advice to google the unit, that was low and uncalled for (in my humble view). So- a Google search on a thing is 'uncalled for'?? IMO that's a pretty low bar. As to the posting of the video on our home page that was... | |
| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? Ralph, you might want to review all of your posts here besides the first one. I did. Are you reading more into my comments than is on the page? | |
| The Audio Gods are tough but fair-Have you had the "Curse of the 300B" ? The High End ndustry norm seems to be 85 to 88 db sensitivity and a 4 ohm nominal speaker impedance.Yeah- I don't get that. It doesn't matter what kind of amp you have, if you make it work hard its going to make more distortion, and with **any** a... | |
| Supratek or Don Sachs - which way to go? @atmasphere Having been a long time member of AudiogoN, I’ve always looked forward to reading your insightful posts. But, not the ones on this thread. Agree with @steakster have always admired Ralph with his very insightful posts but I think he ... | |
| Reel to reel ^^ +1 | |
| Help me rebirth my old turntable I realize that trying to compare my analog equipment to my digital equipment is totally unfair. No- it isn’t. Typically LPs have more bandwidth than digital- going up to 35KHz is no problem for most cartridges and the LP mastering machines go up w... | |
| Who makes this Pre-amp? Tube rectified won't do you any good if the preamp has regulated power supplies. IMO/IME regulation in a preamp is far more important! We've been using 6SN7s for well over 20 years. Nice tube. | |
| The Audio Gods are tough but fair-Have you had the "Curse of the 300B" ? If only we could have 200 watt 300b SETs...why oh why not!?Its the output transformer- with SETs its very difficult to get bandwidth as power is increased. This is true of push-pull too, but you don't run into problems until you have about an orde... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? But a monoblock amp like the "Legendary" old Mark Levinson ML2 monoblocks that are only 25w!! into 8ohms, will sound better into them, because it’s said they double their wattage for each halving of impedance all the way down to 1ohm with the c... |