atmasphere
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| RCA to XLR vs XLR to RCA... Converting Input or Output - Does It Matter?? @srosenbergYou might ask BAT how well their preamp does with single-ended inputs.Our balanced preamps don't seem to care much if the input is single-ended, in fact we provide RCA connections for that purpose. The preamp converts any single-ended i... | |
| Autoformer vs Speaker impedance Curve @almargNo. If that were the only factor transistor amps would be more sensitive than tube amps in this regard, and I don't see that happening (although transistor amps don't have a filament circuit to cool off). I suspect Kirchoff's law might be i... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. Nkonor who is Ralph?@jaym759 that's me. | |
| Tube experts - tell me about my Matsushita ecc803S That was a great tube! They showed up in the early 1980s. Short-lived production though. | |
| Neutral or Detailed. You can't have both A truly, measurably, objectively neutral speakers doesn’t come alive until the volume is turned up, but will lack the perception of detail, because those details come from exaggerated and often rough treble responses. Two very detailed speakers... | |
| Autoformers, The Benefits in matching amp to speaker I have tried a crown vfx-2a, audio control, ace, an old ESS from my super quads, and an Audio Research tubed unit. All of them work but I hear a lot more detail passive. We used the Marchand Tube crossover, which IMO is one of the best made, b... | |
| Autoformer vs Speaker impedance Curve I would like to know how to measure that. 30% is hard to imagine. I test amplifiers all the time with ordinary power cords and have never seen this. This reminds me too much of Bruce Brission's white paper which was a total embarassment to his ... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a SIT just a big power JFET? And I may be wrong, but I think IXIS makes some. I heard somebody talking about how to make a MOSFET produce triode-like curves at BA, but I can't remember who or when. I think it's... | |
| Which subwoofers have at least a 20k input impedance as required for ARC preamp Is replacing the preamp a possibility? There are other balanced tube preamps that have no problems driving loads like that. | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? I simply don't understand how one can conclude that dragging a diamond through a plastic trough doesn't cause wear. It defies logic, physics, and study. It does wear, but takes a *lot* longer than the studies done in the early 1960s concluded (... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? 40-year-olds have no idea, save for a few cool ones, what tubes are. I know a heap of 20 year olds that know what tubes are. Anyone that plays a guitar does...The music industry dwarfs the high end industry. Thank God Apple and Bose are not respo... | |
| Balanced Signal Path Question The amp probably will see some advantage from using the balanced input. This is due to the fact that its input stage isn't perfect and will be lower distortion driven balanced. | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? I am all for tubes, but saying they are not an obsolete technology is a bit of over-optimistic stretch of imagination. Ask anyone younger than 40 about tubes. Chances are they will not have any idea what you are even talking about, much less ha... | |
| Best preamp output option for headphone amp hookup? Won't the Spectral drive headphones directly? We make tube preamps and *they* can do that... | |
| Is there actually a difference? Indeed. And you and I both know why. Well matched parts. When we talk about measurements here I'd like to think we're talking about more than the most basic facts on the side of the box. To really understand what a distortion figure means it ne... |