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| Technics Turntables...really??? @chakster The Reed looks nice but its unlikely to have bearings as hard as those in the Triplanar, who has a security clearance to obtain the bearings they use (the bearing is the hardest metal bearing made anywhere; and Triplanar got investigated... | |
| Do ClassDAudio Amps Have Proper Decay Of Notes? ^^ Yes, that was certainly not obvious since buying a class D audio kit is pretty easy to do. It seems that a company name like that would cause a lot of confusion in the marketplace. It probably can't be trademarked. | |
| Class D Audio I wonder if that’s the same Tom that worked for me about 30 years ago. He told me about his father, who taught airframe and powerplant for the AirForce in WW2. His father had a saying that he always put on the chalkboard at the beginning of each s... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? And Al, a source that gives out 2v is always going to give it out, even if you shunt half of it to ground because you don’t need it, because you have more gain to make it back up in the active preamp. So the distortion from the source "whatever it... | |
| Help me pick a phono, pre and cart Hm. Sounds like raul is a bu$ine$$man looking to sell his preamp, but actually prefers digital (I didn't make that up):https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/phono-preamps-with-ballsHere's an excerpt from that thread:A CD with a top DAC ( 32bits/3... | |
| Do ClassDAudio Amps Have Proper Decay Of Notes? @auxinput If that's really the case, the problem is that the switching frequency is too low because its only at the frequencies of the digital codices. And I can tell you from having designed Class D amps that no DAC out there can drive the outp... | |
| Backert Labs Rhumba preamp So, I am not sure the difference between "Balanced" Vs "true Balanced" that Ralph often refers to.'True balanced' is not a thing I say so much as I harp about supporting the balanced standard. The circuit does not have to be balanced to do that p... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Hmm. George, I'm not worried about it- I simply acknowledged that you were correct yet you're still going off. If anyone seems in damage control mode, its you right now. Just calm down. You'd have to imagine that I'm well aware of what our amps ca... | |
| Lenco Turntable L75 question There are upgrade kits that are worthwhile. The plinth of the original machine is a weak point, as well as the arm and platter pad.It has a robust drive, which is important with any turntable. That is the main reason the 'table has a following, ju... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? If the passive has a 10K impedance maximum George's statement is true. Apparently not all Lightspeed controls have such a low impedance; we had one here that was much higher. So the model you get can have a big effect. Also, 300pf is a low value e... | |
| Aesthetic preamp If you are looking for a preamp that has XLR inputs and outputs, you might want to know that many products in high end audio, even though they have balanced XLR connections, don’t actually support the balanced standard.This is true of both the ARC... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Hence the statement I quoted above appears to me to be incorrect, and George’s statement that "interconnects are the determining factor here" is likely to be correct.@almarg This seems to me a bit of a catch-22, as the very high impedance of the... | |
| Considering tube Monos to replace SS @crazyeddy (whose moniker smacks of A Mote in God's Eye, which I read about 40 years ago...)The Wilsons have always been easy to drive with tubes, which is why ARC and others have often showed with Wilsons at shows. The Maxxes are no exception des... | |
| Backert Labs Rhumba preamp @sbank Thanks- I often wonder what people mean when they use the word 'voice' in that manner. I've often interpreted as some sort of tonality? - but it could mean something else. FWIW we don't do anything to compensate our circuits for bandwidth, ... | |
| Do ClassDAudio Amps Have Proper Decay Of Notes? hence the amp itself gets the moniker "digital" amp and "class D" is conflated with "digital" when in fact the amplification itself an analog process controlled by digital microcontrollers. Our class D amp does not use any digital circuits or mi... |