atmasphere
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| Need passive aggressive advice Having owned a Placette, we know there's no going back. It wasn't until I heard the Atma-Sphere MP-1 preamp that I made a switch. In hindsight, it's the phono preamp in the MP-1 that's the king. If Atma-Sphere built a stand alone phono preamp, ... | |
| Low level buzzing coming from tweeters. FWIW, you are far better off if the ground is tied to the water mains as is traditional. Stakes in the ground tend to be variable, and if the ground connection is indeed on the water mains, the stake in the ground should not be used at all unless ... | |
| Need some Amp help - a little new to properly powering speakers @willemj , I think you might be confusing sensitivity with efficiency. They are not the same; the latter is based on power and ignores impedance, the former is based on voltage and impedance thus matters quite a lot!Now if you are driving a larger... | |
| Balanced cables Its probably not the amp that is causing you to hear the cables so much as the preamp. But there is a recent period of ARC amps that had me scratching my head. I'm not sure which models they are. They were out when Kalvin Dahl (with whom I went to... | |
| TECHNICS 100th Anniversary 2018 Premium Turntables. Their best ever. We've been using the Oracle mat but it is a bit thick if you want to also use a clamp. | |
| Low level buzzing coming from tweeters. The amps are on a dedicated 30 amp breaker, the rest of the system on a dedicated 20 amp. There is an outdoor imbedded ground for, I believe, the entire system.Is this a stake that someone put outside somewhere to make a ground? | |
| Balanced cables Just wanted to reiterate that if designer lays out his signal path to be more direct to the XLR and the gain is set higher to that output it will always sound better which is the intention, if the opposite is done to the RCA out, it will always... | |
| Balanced cables So if a balanced dual mono/stereo preamplifier has both XLR and RCA outputs, and both outputs from XLR or RCA or moving signal from a separate mono channel for left and right, then in essence their both balanced cables doing the same thing. Int... | |
| Need some Amp help - a little new to properly powering speakers You do not need more efficient speakers for more detail. The most detailed speakers may well be Quad electrostats, and they are horribly ineffcient.The first statement is true, the second is partially false. Quads are planar loudspeakers, and so... | |
| Low level buzzing coming from tweeters. Usually the AC power comes from two halves of the incoming 240V from outside the house. If the amps are on one half and the rest of the system on the other, sometimes you can get hum if the amplifier's grounding isn't really worked out all that we... | |
| What's making my system hum? The problem is the magnetic field coming from the power transformer in the power supply. Moving it away from sensitive phono circuitry is in fact the correct solution! | |
| Balanced cables Do different brands/levels of balanced XLR ended cables going to and from differentially balanced components make a difference?They shouldn't. The question really should be- does the equipment used support the balanced line standard. If no- then c... | |
| TECHNICS 100th Anniversary 2018 Premium Turntables. Their best ever. Even though the spectral frequency plots looked slightly better on the charts from the Caliburn which has slightly more opened detail, the Sl-1200G sounded fuller in the midrange and more relaxed. The platter pad is part of the sound and the Te... | |
| Tweeter Blown OR Crossover? How to check? Sounds like you have it sussed out- the tweeter is blown and the crossover is good.The tweeter blew because the amplifier used to drive the speaker was clipping (same as in your son's speakers). If you don't plan to go to a more powerful amp, inst... | |
| Need some Amp help - a little new to properly powering speakers I notice at lower volumes a lot of the imaging and clarity disappears. That's a problem with the Yamaha. Going to higher power won't help it.There is this thing called the 'first watt', which is the idea that the first watt of power is the most i... |