atmasphere
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| RCA to XLR vs XLR to RCA... Converting Input or Output - Does It Matter?? I was just wondering if replacing the adapters w/Jensen tranny and adding another cable would be likely to provide enough Sq improvement to justify the cost.I doubt it very much. The less transformers in the signal chain the better IME. | |
| Autoformer vs Speaker impedance Curve Roger, I recommend you try some measurements on this bit yourself. Its obvious to me that you have not. Its simple enough to do. Bascom is a nice guy and I've always had respect for him, but he screwed this one up. People are human. Its a common ... | |
| Advice on pre-amps needed Since your amplifier has a balanced input, to best take advantage of it I recommend a preamp with a balanced output, preferably one that supports the balanced standard as does your amplifier.If the preamp supports the standard, you will find that ... | |
| 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. |