atmasphere
Responses from atmasphere
| Balanced Preamp recommendations up to $5,500 You seem to have answered my question. That, it would benefit me to have the Tri-planar arm cable terminated with XLRs as long as I had appropriate inputs to plug into at the preamp or phonostage@nkonor, If the phono section is actually balanced... | |
| Hypex N core module If you think about it Ralph, linear solid state amps that are well made but with global feed back and a bit of it, also have the same lifeless sound that many say Class-D has.No argument there, but the kind of feedback Bruno is talking about is ... | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? Call it what you want but how can anyone argue with the final result when a woman sits down and says the music sounds much more natural,then spends more free time actually listening instead of puttering around with music in the background? I do... | |
| Technics SL1200G vs GAE ^^ if you can set the SL-1200 up with the same arm/cartridge combo as the Garrard, and also set it up with the same platter pad (the stock Technics platter pad is a no-go IMO) then I think you will find that it has no troubles keeping up with the ... | |
| Hypex N core module Large amounts of global feedback used in linear amps is used in poor designs, to get good specs, the challenge is to get good specs with only a little local feedback.George, I'm a bit uncomfortable with this statement- a lot depends on how its i... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? Getting the two amps to work together properly will be a bit of a challenge. Unless you use an active crossover, I think you will find that to a very difficult task. The problem with using an active crossover of course it that its not actually tai... | |
| Balanced Preamp recommendations up to $5,500 @asp307 I hate to say it (and also a bit surprised, given the source), but this statement is actually false:”Probably because there are no phono cartridges with a center tap (6-wires) . So in terms of what we do with a balanced circuit you'd ha... | |
| Hypex N core module They heard that right. But had they been in a position to add 60dB, well then, suddenly they would have been confronted with a sound that is little short of magical." Bruno is spot on with this. The usual rule of thumb is that very low amounts ... | |
| Hypex N core module Feedback, while suppressing distortion, adds some of its own. In addition, it is a destabilizing factor in any amplifier design. 'Stable' means that it is resistant to oscillation.The distortion added by feedback contributes to brightness (a color... | |
| Hypex N core module Naturally your not going to tell us how it’s done, I’m hope for you that you can do it, but also sceptical at the same time, as minds more attuned to solid state Class-D topology than yours have not succeeded, save for Technics who are half the... | |
| Earliest "MOST WANTED" gear My first really serious system, about 1975, was a Harmon Kardon Citation 2 power amplifier, with a Citation 1 preamp, rack mounted in a nineteen inch military rack 7 feet high, which also contained my Technics SL-1100 turntable, which was on a dra... | |
| Audio Research Reference 5SE modifications/bypassing output caps I do take exception to Atmasphere's comments about using a bypass cap across power supply filter caps. My experience with bypass caps in a PS is exactly the same as with coupling caps. I can always hear the effect of the bypass cap and it cau... | |
| Audio Research Reference 5SE modifications/bypassing output caps Bypassing power supply caps is a good thing. Bypassing audio coupling caps results in smearing- the more resolution you have- the more you can hear it. The caps have different ESRs, different dielectric coefficients; its easy to see why this is so... | |
| Hypex N core module We've already been listening to the amp. FWIW the squarewave response you linked does look pretty bad. Our tube amps can do better than that!Obviously we're not letting this thing out without it doing what its supposed to do. The thing is, you can... | |
| Hypex N core module I completely agree that switching frequencies have to be increased!But, the problem is not switching speed! The problem is how long it takes for the device to turn on and off, which is different. Because that takes some time, the circuit has to wa... |