atmasphere
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| 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... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Just to be clear I think Technics did an outstanding job- while retaining the looks of the older products, they managed to also improve performance.FWIW, Triplanar has a new wire that is *considerably* more supple. They began installing it about 3... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Sheesh Raul calm down.Sounds like you have not in fact compared these arms nor have all the facts. Just for an example, while the Triplanar does use carbon fiber in the arm wand, its actually a composite and is also internally damped. While jewele... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. In our reference room we have one set of speakers on each wall so we have two active speakers on display,It does not matter where the unused speakers are in the room, they are affecting the sound! If the speaker connections are shorted, they will ... | |
| Is powerfull Amps only for low sensitivity speakes? But a powerful solid state amplifier allows you to use mostly far better inefficient speakers and avoid the distortion and non-flat frequency response of many tube amplifiers. Anyway, we are not going to persuade each other.@willemj Actually I ... | |
| What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion? Alieno swears up and down that semi-conductors are not doing any heavy lifting, and that the amp is not a hybrid amp, and that only tubes are providing both the voltage and the current amplification. Somehow the big power supply allows the KT-1... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. How can anyone make a serious judgement about the sound when there are more than one pair of speakers in the room?+1Its easy to show that unused speakers in a room are absorbing energy from the speaker being played.The **partial** solution is to s... | |
| Full detailed sound at 30 - 40 - 50 dB But if the total is low, the components must be even lower (or theoretically at most equal).@willemj The problem is that the ear does not treat all harmonics on equal ground. It is far more sensitive to the higher orders! Think log scale...We've ... | |
| Full detailed sound at 30 - 40 - 50 dB But if the total is low, the components must be even lower (or theoretically at most equal).@willemj When you have really low numbers typical of traditional solid state amps, the problem is that the higher ordered harmonics are simply not as low... | |
| Is powerfull Amps only for low sensitivity speakes? It is true that distortion goes up a little bit at lower levels, but it is still very low and below the noise level: 0.05% at 100 mW. Look at graph 16 in particular, for the output range of 480mW to 7.7 W rms. In that range it never gets above ... | |
| What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion? Is anyone familiar with the Alieno Ltd. 250 OTL (from Italy)?Its not an OTL, no 300b can make 250 watts. The power is being made by semiconductors. | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) @atmasphere have you tried the EPA-100 MK II ? No- but just by looking at it I can see an engineering bug. And I know that their bearings are not as hard as they could be, because the hardest bearings are available from only one source. Ralph, why... |