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| CDs Vs LPs I have LPs pressed in the early 1950s that play just fine too. One example (Benny Goodman) is 65 years old and still plays fine. The Library of Congress did an archival study in the mid 1980s that suggested that laminated media like CDs would last... | |
| Phono cable advice. The reason you can make an unshielded cable work in a phono situation is that the cartridge is a pretty low impedance. Its hard for radiated noise to impinge the cable when such a low source impedance is present.A further advantage is that unshiel... | |
| Why do people buy preamps if they can directly connect amp to stereo source/phone/PC/tv? For those that like tube coloration (or distortion. for you detractors), messing around with tubes is a joy. For those that prefer more sonic honesty, you will need to spend considerably more for tubes and may well find sonic bliss with a less... | |
| My Amp is Broken - Not Sure What to Do - Any Recommendations? So- the chip can't be bypassed?If its a fire concern, couldn't a thermal fuse be installed?*IF* that's all that's wrong, sounds like a simple matter to sort out, if all that is needed is to just get it running again. | |
| Tube question: any sonic difference in 6SN7 vs 6H30 vs 6H80 in the amp's signal position? The 6SN7 is a better sounding tube as its easier to find examples that have lower microphonics. IOW the 6SN7 was designed for audio. BTW the 6C33 power tube has been out of production and the plant that made them dismantled for about 19 years. | |
| Solder, Lead free or leaded? RoHS does not ban leaded solder. To meet RoHS, the product has to not have more than a certain percentage of lead.Leaded solder works better than most non-leaded solders in most applications. A eutectic solder is more desirable as it is much easie... | |
| CDs Vs LPs If it doesn't bring you joy... | |
| Atma-Sphere in CO? Just a FWIW- we've had terrible luck with the MIT and Transparent cables; we've never gotten them to play nice with our gear. No idea why, but you might want to run that comparison again if you can borrow a different set of interconnects. Also- th... | |
| highest damping factor amp You don't need a high damping factor to control TAD woofers. My amp has a very low damping factor and works great with the dual TAD 15" woofers (1602s) in my system. Now they are in series for a 16 ohm load, so nearly anything can drive them. And ... | |
| CDs Vs LPs Ticks and pops can be on the surface of the LP, but far more of them are caused by poorly designed phono equalizers that are unstable, resulting in a tick or pop that isn’t actually on the LP. About 95% of ticks and pops have this origin.I am sorr... | |
| New vs Used - Significant sonic improvements in preamp/amp design in the last 20 years? We developed and patented a means of direct-coupling a balanced output. We use it in our tube preamps, the first of which were built in 1989. It was the world's first balanced line preamp for home use.You can still find the older ones used but the... | |
| CDs Vs LPs OK Ralph, you're right. There's no such thing as a not very well built or poorly set up turntable or cartridge, no damaged vinyl, no dirty records, no off center spindle holes, no poorly recorded LPs.Everything in vinyl land is just as good a... | |
| CDs Vs LPs You need to add "to me" or "to vinyl afficianados" to make this statement correct. To anyone with a decent system, digital no longer has to sound bright. The best digital system I've heard to date is the StahlTech, which sounded smoother and mo... | |
| Tube phono stage, or solid state,pre amp A bright high end is typical of solid state. This is due to distortion, not frequency response, despite the fact that the distortion present is very slight (the problem is that the ears are very keen to this type of distortion, as it is higher ord... | |
| CDs Vs LPs No amount of money spend on beefy turntables and complex tonearms will produce the dynamic range of which the LP is incapable.?? Signal to Noise Ratio: LP 50db, CD 90dbFrequency Response: LP 20-20kHz, CD 20-22kHz (a tie)Total Harmonic Distortion: ... |