atmasphere
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| 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... | |
| preamp inverts polarity Absolute phase and polarity are the same thing.Relative phase is one channel out of phase with the other and should be corrected, regardless of the absolute phase/polarity (IOW, whether your system is inverting or not).I rarely agree with Geoff on... | |
| Good carts with SME V Please clue me in; how do you adjust the effective mass on a Triplanar, save by the method common to any tonearm, which is to add mass? But, as for most other tonearms, you cannot reduce effective mass below the basic value with no added weight... | |
| Valve phono stage I appreciate your suggestion but I want a dedicated PS.@infection FWIW, an outboard phono section has some problems to overcome. The main one is connectivity- if you have ever had to audition interconnect cables then you know what I'm talking abou... | |
| Preamp Advice Needed - Gryphon Amp - Currently ARC Ref5se Are you looking for balanced operation? | |
| EL34 in triode vs 300B/845 SET An amplifier that operates push-pull with 300bs is likely not in the budget as proposed. I suspect that the amplifier that will be used will be an ultralinear amp based on 6550s/KT88s. | |
| Liquid Amps What is the most “liquid” sounding solid state amp and is “liquid” even a thing?It is, and its a description of how the amplifier makes distortion, or more to the point, what distortions it **doesn't** make.Solid state amps have a long standing re... | |
| Valve phono stage Do you want balanced inputs as well?Phono cartridges are a balanced source... | |
| Good carts with SME V @o_holter IME with the SME5 you need a slightly lower compliance cartridge, as the arm with the cartridge is going to be medium to higher mass. I ditched the SME5 for a Triplanar years ago and never looked back. An advantage of the Triplanar is th... | |
| Tube Phono Preamp Can anyone tell me if the Golden Tube Preamp Sep1 with 1 tube will make a difference in a system? Yes it will.You will notice the LPs sounding smoother and more musical in most cases.You may also notice less ticks and pops. Solid state preamps ten... |