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| ***SET***What Is Your Experience With Different Flavors*** ^^ +1Speaker matching is pretty important, as a general rule of thumb the speaker should have enough efficiency so that the amp never makes more than about 20% of full power. This is so if you want to really hear what the amp is about.With SETs th... | |
| Tube or Trasistor Tubes come with uncontrolled performance variables, whereas solid-state devices vary, but only within specified limits. That's a real distinction.Not really! When you say 'solid state devices vary', you mean that they vary from completely nonfun... | |
| issue with preamp By 'distortion' do you mean 'noise'? | |
| Which preamp for a pass labs? OK- why just ARC and Pass- no other choices?I would suggest a balanced tube preamp for a Pass and there are plenty out there.All the "balanced" hype is pure BS. This statement is false. To start with there is no hype. To end with, the balanced li... | |
| Tube or Trasistor Tubes reflect their Neo-Victorian vintage (1904); they’re just not high precision parts. Why not? Well, to start, the tube manufacturers identify vacuum tube operating parameters only by listing “average” or “typical” characteristics. That's fu... | |
| Magnepan 20.7's & Tube Amp I Just spoke to Wendell Diller at Magnepan and reducing the speaker cables has zero affect unless your running 15-20ft of cable. I don't know why we get all this misinformation on Maggies.We've built short speaker cables for a number of our cust... | |
| Is powerfull Amps only for low sensitivity speakes? Not a good impedance curve for tubes, this speakers needs current. but because it’s a very nice 90db efficient an amp around 150w or more will do, but as I say one that can deliver current!In practice this comment does not bear out. John Giolas ... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for 300b SET Amp I am sick and tired of someone trying to promote his own amp by demoting other type if amps, specially singleended transform coupled low power high quality amps.Eg. Transformless push pull amps produces extream high odd order distortions and e... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. Maybe you should call it cleaner. It is certainly more accurate because if the preamp does change the signal, by definition that is degradation.The problem (as has been discussed a lot elsewhere) is that a passive control is highly susceptible to... | |
| Reducing Background Noise On Records Noise and limited dynamic range (and a few other issues) are inherent to the vinyl medium. This statement is inaccurate.LPs generally are mastered with less compression than CDs, for the simple reason that there is no expectation that an LP might... | |
| Early Merlin Speakers They were easy to drive and well built. They were very tube-friendly. | |
| Faint speaker hiss No this is not normal anymore. This statement is incorrect. With nearly any integrated amplifier a hiss will be heard on that speaker. But it is of no consequence as others have pointed out; I've yet to meet any audiophile that listened to their s... | |
| What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion? Where are you seeing semi-conductors? In the tube section of the Alieno, or in its power supply?I don't. I just googled it and started reading. The top hits say pretty much the same thing. | |
| Is powerfull Amps only for low sensitivity speakes? So, my opinion, in general is: High powered solid state amps can be a benefit to High Sensitivity speakers. The generalization is the problem. I often run amps of 150 watts or more on my speakers, which are 98 db. I certainly don't mind the power... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. Ralph we know about that trick, what you said is that having multiple speakers in the room completely invalidates the results, when they don't.Actually it does. The problem is that all the cabinets act as bass traps, whether their respective woo... |