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| THE LITTLE BLACK BOX, 399.00 ABSOLUTLY NUTS Rega is one of the very few arm manufacturers whose arms are not very simply converted to balanced signal transfer with the addition of a balanced tonearm lead. The key words here are 'very simply'- other than that, that's precisely what we've d... | |
| What makes tape sound better than vinyl ? Many years ago I noticed that the tape seemed to do something nice to the sound of vinyl.Turned out the reason was because I was using headphones and the turntable didn’t like the vibration from the speakers. So I went about the process of providi... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? It's true that they have higher distortion when they are run at anywhere near the rated power but they also have vanishing low distortion if they are run at about 10% of full power. So when you hear them coupled with horns usually you're not h... | |
| Stacked Quad Questions We've had a number of customers over the years that have run stacked ESL57s. Dave Magnan of Magnan cables did that right up to when he retired. With our amps, its best to simply wire the speakers in series. With most tube amps employing an output ... | |
| connecting a sub-woofer to a preamp The sub uses a balanced input connection. The Ayre has a balanced output.If your main amp is balanced also this is good. Get a Y adapter and hook everything thing together. The Ayre will be able to drive it all. There is no reason why they should ... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? can you guys recommend some good 100W+ stereo tube amps to pair with an Emotiva XSP-1 preamp? Yes, but a budget is the first place to start. | |
| BAT Vk55se or Atma-Sphere S-30 MK111 withal all the upgrades ? There is an 8 ohm version of the DI, which is the one to use with tubes in general. | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? @schubert you might try a set of JJ blue glass KT88s. | |
| DIY tube amps High power amps aren't the simplest creatures, especially tube designs. A 60 watt class A solid state amp is going to have something like 32V rails. A 60 watt tube amp is going to have rails more like 20 times that voltage. Our 60 watt tube amp... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? The real irony to me is that the same people who vehemently argue for the dynamics of horns are the same who think vinyl is king. You don't get more dynamically compressed than vinyl. @kosst_amojanI really feel like I need to set the record stra... | |
| Anyone With A Class 'D' Amp Play A 4 or 2 Ohm Speaker? Sounds to me like despite all that time, you've still not unlocked all the performance available. What you're not taking into account is how variable ESLs are! Old Quads are higher impedance as are Sound Lab and certain Acoustats. Other Acoustats ... | |
| connecting a sub-woofer to a preamp A 'Y' adapter would be one solution. | |
| Anyone With A Class 'D' Amp Play A 4 or 2 Ohm Speaker? When a good solid state amp with good current ability, drives a wild impedance curve, like many esl’s have, and speakers like Wilsons have, it will stay close to flat across the frequency range, giving least colouration.Because of the inclusion... | |
| high frequency intermittent noise It's all resistors and it's designed to shrug off MHz range ringing because of it's crazy wide bandwidth. We had to be careful too for the same reason. | |
| Anyone With A Class 'D' Amp Play A 4 or 2 Ohm Speaker? Anyone have experience running them with Quad electrostatics, which go down to 2 ohms in the high frequencies. Considering for a pair of stacked quads. Most Class D amps behave as voltage sources, which is to say that they can double power as t... |