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| Reel to Reel Tape Frequency response: 30Hz to 30kHz (15 ips); That's 10K above audibility.FWIW, LPs can do 15Hz to 45KHz; the lower limit described by tone arm mechanical resonance and the upper end by the intentional frequency limitation found in the circuitry of ... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? ^^ +1 | |
| Preamp help for First Watt J2/ZU Omens combo Your amplifier is balanced, so a preamp that drives a balanced output would be a good place to start. Given the distortion character of the amp, which is very good, I'd go with a tube preamp but finding a balanced one in your price range might be ... | |
| Amp/Preamps vs. High end AV Receivers When you have separates, the equipment does not have to share power supplies. This reduces intermodulations and for that reason alone allows for better sound. But there are additional benefits- frequently separates have better power supplies, bett... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @invictus005I stand corrected- I was not aware that anyone had combined a class A and class D amp in the same circuit. What you may not know is that we have done some class D work as well and have our own patents. | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? seems like you’re claiming no amplifier designer knows how to design an amp that will be just as good driving a 4 ohm load as driving an 8 ohm load. Am I correct? I don’t think you speak for all amplifier designers out there.@dracule1Yes, you a... | |
| Best Preamp New or Used up to $3,000 ?? The Atma-Sphere MP-3 is a fully balanced fully differential tube preamp with a direct-coupled output. Since your Cary has a balanced differential input, the MP-3 would have a leg up over the others mentioned here, on account of the fact that while... | |
| Reel to Reel Tape well that’s what you like to think that just can’t happens no matter what because the LP signal must be " proccessed "/pass through something to your R2R and that pass though something only can degrades the LP signal. or explain why is not sign... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? A really good tone arm is a really nice investment- the bigger your record collection, the better.The ability of the arm to properly track the cartridge is far more important than which cartridge you use. If the cartridge tracks properly then your... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? Your argument that apogee would sound better if it were higher impedance is false based on imperial evidence. Case in point the 1 ohm Schintilla sounded better than 4 ohm Schintilla, as long as you could find an amp that could drive 1 ohm load... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? @kosst_amojanHorns have to get pretty enormous to really play bass. My speakers play a compromise on that- they use TAD 1602s (15", free air resonance at 22Hz, 97 db 1 watt 1 meter). They are set up with two woofers per cabinet. No problem playing... | |
| best preamps You have to make some decisions:Balanced or single-endedTube or solid stateGenerally, balanced reduces the coloration of the interconnect cables, but does so best if the preamp supports AES48, the balanced line standard. Many balanced high end aud... | |
| Still looking for an amplifier upgrade- but with a new twist..... @pgastoneYou can run tubes if you like- get a set of ZEROs (www.zeroimpedance.com) and you can run any tube amp that makes enough power. The ZEROs have taps for 2 ohms and thus load the tube amp at 16 ohms. They also have bandwidth much wider than... | |
| how good really There are now beryllium diaphragms available for some horns. They have less breakups and so sound smoother and faster. Crossover capacitors have improved as well. Throat and horn designs have improved due to Computer Aided Design, and so have less... | |
| BE VERY CAREFUL OF YOUR DEALINGS ON AUDIO-ASYLUM I don't think there's anything sinister here.I've dealt with autospec before, and we heard from the dealer in Nebraska as well- he had some questions about operation. Sounds to me like he was a bit slow shipping out the trade amps, but other than ... |