atmasphere
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| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? But, typically I find that Rock/Metal guys like myself are looking for a huge soundstage, and that "live" sound. Maybe not the best imaging. But damn, it's like being at a concert.Huge soundstage is a sign of a good speaker with good resolutio... | |
| Valve phono stage Still have some amazing NOS tubes left, such as ECC801 / 12AT7 WA, not sure is there is any valve phono stage with this type of tubes.We use 12AT7s in all our phono sections. Not as much gain as a 12AX7, but a lot more bandwidth. | |
| Best preamps for phonostage performance? Seems to me you need a preamp with balanced outputs to work with that amplifier. You might be able to find one of our MP-3 preamps used for that price. The MP-3 is all-tube, fully differential and balanced from phono input to main output. If vacuu... | |
| Valve phono stage Purist is pretty nice- not sure it they fit the budget. | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? Most conditioners available to high end audio don't do a lot. The best of them is the PS regenerator, which really can deliver a proper sine wave.The problem is it can't do a lot of power, although they are making some bigger units now. For the mo... | |
| CDs Vs LPs I discovered serendipitously, about 35 years ago that the phono section played a huge role in how many ticks and pops you get with LPs. Since I am a designer as a result I'm used to not getting ticks and pops. To avoid wear, I use a Triplanar arm.... | |
| Valve phono stage as a disadvantages i can add:Tube Microphonics, Tube Noise, Tube Rolling effect (you change the tube and you change the sound). The price for each good tube, the tube estimate hrs and short life of the tube (not good for very expensive nos). T... | |
| Valve phono stage Any tube fan can explain me what is the advantages of the tube phono stage compared to the great SS design? It can be explained. Whether you accept the truth of the matter is a different thing altogether.The primary advantage of a tube phono secti... | |
| 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. |