atmasphere
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| Atma-Sphere in CO? The GTs will work in all but the front position. Just use the Chinese 6SN7 in that location and you'll be fine. The fundamental difference I suspect you'll hear is that the Franks have a more lush sound while the M-60 is more neutral. The differen... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! We've not put a lot of thought into what embodiments the amps will take, although an integrated seems likely. Probably some sort of power amp too. I think the amp is likely to be less than $4k. | |
| Atma-Sphere in CO? If its an older amp updated to Mk3, the tube layout might be different.So, in the latest iteration, the tubes in the rear beneath the meter on either side are the most important to the sound. The one in the middle is next most important.In the ver... | |
| Preamp Advice for my System Your amplifier has a balanced input.The BAT is a tube unit- the others are not- do you have a preference in that regard?FWIW as far as I can tell, the BAT does not support the balanced standard. There are tube preamps that do. | |
| Mild hum/buzz preamp issue? Turn the setup on, but try carefully picking up the phono preamp and moving it. It may be sitting in a hum field of a power transformer or the like. If the hum changes, then you need to find a different place to put the phono section. | |
| Class D is just Dandy! I don't find good digital amps bright or fatiguing today. What's a 'digital amp'??Surely not a class D- I thought this thread was class D only ;) | |
| Autoformers, The Benefits in matching amp to speaker Since we are developing a class D maybe I can chip in.The filter is there to reduce the amplitude of the switching component; IOW the switching frequency of the amplifier which is present at the output of the amp. The switching frequency is never ... | |
| Is pre-amp getting killed? Even if you have only digital a preamp is still useful; one way is if you want to run your interconnect cables a long way to the amplifiers (which might be sitting by the speakers with short speaker cables). Many digital products have poor volume ... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. FWIW, if you have the old idler, it can be rebuilt by Russell Industries on the east coast:http://russellind.com/downl.htmThe PRB catalog is the old Projector Recorder Belt company that was located in Whitewater Wisconsin prior to Russell Ind. buy... | |
| Empire Turntable Parts The original part is not an LED!If that is what is in there, either someone modified it, or else the LED failed shortly after installation.The correct lamp is a neon lamp as I indicated earlier. | |
| Serious Passive Preamp question I don’t believe ANY active preamp can better a "properly used" passive for transparency, dynamics, uncoloured sound and extension in both the highs and lows. Unless you need to purposely colour the sound with the coloration's that all active pr... | |
| Is there actually a difference? When I asked about the viability of adapting the F5 to power JFETs he pointed me to an example he'd built using the Sony devicesSure- but that's not the same as saying they are the same. Google is your friend.SITs are not in production- power JFET... | |
| If aftermarket premium power cords work, why won’t short runs of premium XLR cables work? I am sad your confidence in ’theory’ precludes all fact.@elizabeth Its not theory. I've been doing this a long time, and I've seen plenty of cases where one cable sounds better than another, including balanced. The thing is though that most high e... | |
| Let's talk power cords And there it is in a nutshell. The only ones selling power cords made of Romex are the ones that are either ignorant of electrical code or have simply elected to stare down the shotgun barrels.As a manufacturer, I follow the code because I don't w... | |
| If aftermarket premium power cords work, why won’t short runs of premium XLR cables work? In my experience, different XLR do sound very different. I had Kimber Hero, Cardas Parsec, and finally Kimber KS1116. Each a big jump in price, and a good step up in sound. If this was the case, then the associated gear didn't support the bala... |