atmasphere
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| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? I have been doing a lot of research lately in creating my own speakers with quality parts to meet my musical tastes. Since most speaker manufactures are aimed at customers that want smaller speakers and the look of an art piece, I figured I w... | |
| Anyone Else Using an Audio Kinesis Swarm or Debra Distributed Bass Array System? I've shown at shows with the Swarm (and Duke's speakers, which are always well thought out...). IMO/IME the Swarm is one of the best subwoofer systems available. | |
| Is dedicated PreAmp with Oppo 105 needed? The reason I would avoid running the Oppo directly into the amp is the volume control. Running it at lower volumes reduces resolution. I would run a line section and use the Oppo with the volume up all the way, then use the volume control of the l... | |
| In search of respectable/reasonable tube amps with 16 ohm taps Our amps have no output transformers and love 16 ohms. No tap needed, just hook up and play.The advantage of 16 ohms is that with all amplifiers, tube, solid state or class D, distortion is lower (the exception being if you have a tube amp that la... | |
| preamp inverts polarity this whole thread has gone off base and no one has answered my question.my preamp requires me to reverse cables at the speaker end, by design my speaker cables have designated cables for negative connection and positive cables. the positive and... | |
| Next step: preamp or phono preamp A budget would be helpful.Many stand-alone phono stages are not really all that well suited for driving the power amp directly, although it can work. The advantage of the line section is that it can make sure you have enough gain, and reduce the e... | |
| preamp inverts polarity @kalali Just to be clear here, Push-Pull amps can be class A and also all triode. The 'air is single-ended' thing is a bit sketchy and also a bit of a red herring, since air has nothing to do with how amplifiers operate. | |
| Valve phono stage Facts contradict your salemanship approach on balanced connections.@bpoletti Perhaps you could point me to a link that confirms your position?Here is a link that confirms mine:http://www.rane.com/note110.htmlScroll down, you'll see a diagram of a... | |
| Good carts with SME V listening to Yes Close to the edge, side B track one with a heavy organ solo, I dont hear any breakup. Where do you hear it? I have a ca second press UK.That's because you have a UK press which is pretty good :) The American press breaks up and ... | |
| Valve phono stage No single tube audio item ( everything the same ) can compete with SS designs as your Whest in some critical issues when we are talking of LOMC cartridges: noise levels, distortions levels, frequency response bandwindth, RIAA eq. deviation leve... | |
| Amplifier for Altec Valencia speakers Those speakers would work very nicely with OTLs too. You'll hear the additional transparency immediately. | |
| preamp inverts polarity I don't believe G Louis. He came into our room at CES once, insisting that the polarity was off in our system without even sitting down to make his revelation. I flipped the switch (which has been a part of the MP-1 preamp circuit since its incept... | |
| Valve phono stage so why do top phono stage designers use RCA inputs?Tradition- rather than performance.Take a very close look at phono cart signal generators. Doesn’t matter if the cart is MI, MM or MC. They are NOT balanced, they are single-ended with a + and - p... | |
| Good carts with SME V The Titan i does make this record sound “sharp”. But was it meant to sound that way? I think, yes. There should be some razor blade to the sound. Now that it is better adjusted, the bass performance is very tight and sounds great. The guitar of... | |
| Preamp Advice Needed - Gryphon Amp - Currently ARC Ref5se @rob67 The advantage of balanced operation is that you can avoid sonic attributes coming from the interconnect cable itself.To achieve that, the output impedance of the source is very low. The other thing that is required is that the actual signal... |