atmasphere
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| Looking for a pre-amp (Pass, ARC, BAT, Sim, PS Audio) @jmarshak If you are looking for balanced line you might inquire with the manufacturers of the preamps on your list if the product supports the balanced line standard, otherwise known as AES48 (Audio Engineering Society file 48).If the preamp does... | |
| Amp "timing" ? ^^ +1 | |
| Amp "timing" ? There are things that might be considered timing issues in amps, but when used in the context of a review is probably referring to detail and has nothing to do with timing at all. There is this term- PRAT which is thought to be a British thing, wh... | |
| Easy to drive, outstandingly natural sound from 40-50 Hz up.....AN-E, O/96, others? Contrast Audio Model One; 16 ohms, 93 dB.Audiokinesis- Duke has always made great speakers that are easy to drive.Many 'full range' speakers like Lowther and Voxitiv can make 50Hz. Voxitive had a very nice sounding room at RMAF; their drivers are ... | |
| Amplifier design parameters required for a good match for high (16+) ohm speakers? Forgot to add that the manufactures rated sensitivity was based on 1 watt, not 2.83V.@mesch In that case 'sensitivity' is not the right word- 'efficiency' is.IME monostrapping the ST-70 is easy and works quite well. | |
| Looking for a pre-amp (Pass, ARC, BAT, Sim, PS Audio) I run all balanced in my system. I find it to usually sound better (in my system) to SE, even at short wire runs. At the least with XLR, I usually do not need to increase the volume as high :) But seriously, I realize that most tube equipment is S... | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? Loading is entirely for the benefit of the preamp not the cartridge. Here's how it works:The cartridge is an inductor. The tone arm cable has a capacitance. Since they are in parallel, the result is a tuned resonant circuit, often active at +100KH... | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? The Polarity pundit claims 92% of CDs are in Reverse Polarity. And he has a Polarity List to back it up. Furthermore the Polarity Pundit claims entire record labels are in Reverse Polarity. What evidence do you have? Who is right? I await your... | |
| Amp recommendations for stacked Quad ESL 57's A customer of ours, David Magnan (of Magnan cables), ran stacked ESL57s for many years wired in series and using a set of our M-60s. | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? But 50-50 assumes no audio engineers or mastering engineers check for Polarity and I don’t buy it. I’m not saying it’s impossible, just the probability is low.Recording engineers in fact do not check for polarity. For the most part they regard ... | |
| Amplifier design parameters required for a good match for high (16+) ohm speakers? The Model One should be very nice with the ST-70. They rate the sensitivity at 92 dB if memory serves; if that is actually sensitivity, the speaker is 95dB 1 watt/1 meter, which will mean the ST-70 has adequate power. If the amp has not been used ... | |
| Amplifier design parameters required for a good match for high (16+) ohm speakers? Ralph, I am using the 16ohm output with the Contrasts, which are rated at 16ohms. I am not sure about actual impedance within the bass frequencies. Which model? | |
| Amplifier design parameters required for a good match for high (16+) ohm speakers? Ralph said it was in the best condition of amy he has seen for that time. It was factory manufactured, not put together as a kit. I own a original owners/instruction manual for the kit version so following it, I could likely replace the power s... | |
| Tight bass sub recommendations Tight bass can be created by a bass player damping every note, and utilizing over-damped drums. Listen to this sort of thing outside with no acoustic boundaries and there ya go!I've been playing bass since 6th grade. True- it gets a lot more per... | |
| Amplifier design parameters required for a good match for high (16+) ohm speakers? I guess then, when considering an amplifiers rating into an 8ohm load, one should half that rating into a 16ohm load as a way of assessing that amplifiers ability to provide enough power for a particular circumstance. I always found that the S... |