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| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? @charles1dad FWIW, the Coincidents we had here at the shop were Total Eclipses- they had five drivers- two side firing woofers, two midranges and a single ribbon tweeter. The 6C33 can sound excellent and despite bing indirectly heated can easily k... | |
| Atma-Sphere MP1 with single-ended inputs and outputs? Adapters OK? The Atma-Sphere MP-1 and MP-3 are both available with optional RCA outputs (in addition to the dual balanced outputs). When this option is added there is also a switch installed to switch between single-ended and balanced operation. This is needed... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! @erik_squires That’s not what’s being done here. DSP is used entirely for electrical phase and amplitude. The actual speaker/room response is not considered. Quite a heavy handed approach to making an amp perform like an ideal voltage source. T... | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations please to partner with Parasound JC-1's.... @gerryn I use Transparent balanced to the amps and Audience speaker cables. I have not heard many others. I have really enjoyed the AA for many years. The preamp seems very good. Just always wondering what a separate tube pre would do. In mo... | |
| What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion? @rusty_jefferson Just to be clear, I'm not Trolling you, or your company, just answering the question in the thread title, "What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion". No worries- I didn't think you were. But most people don't realize t... | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? Life is so simple. Only money complicates it.**That** certainly seems to be true.The Coincident loudspeaker concept (tending to higher impedance) that Israel has had for the last 10-15 years or so was developed using an OTL, not an SET. Unless you... | |
| Audio Research SP20 vs LS25 and Whest Phono Pre Some of the Audeze headphones require a bit of power; if you have one of those models you'll probably want a headphone power amp for them. | |
| What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion? @rusty_jefferson Our (Atma-Sphere) claim to fame is we made the first reliable OTLs. That was in 1976. I don't know of any OTLs that were safety issues, including early designs. I've heard this said before, but as far as I know its some sort of my... | |
| Tonearm microphonics @bdp24 Can an arm be "too" damped, too non-resonant? Are those two things the same? Not really. Removing resonance from the arm tube is a good thing and its impossible to overdamp the arm tube in this regard. One **massive** problem with that thou... | |
| Help with a new Tube headphone amp blowing fuses The tube glowing oddly does not happen all the time.Remove the power tube and run the unit. Does the fuse blow? If yes => it needs service, probably in the power supply. If no => install the tube and try it again. If you hear odd sounds, tap... | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? You get used to the increased performance that is available! Going back to ’lesser goods’ can be a bit depressing. But I find that if you are careful, good sound can be had on almost any budget. | |
| Directionality of wire @pennsyAs to costs, well enough to filter out the improve non sense! It's free and firing up Geo does provide me with amusement! If cost something to post, the Facebook audiogon would disappear! And a got a hundred Geo is going to bust my chop... | |
| Directionality of wire Listen folks, about the only way we are going to clear this up and have a reasonable conversation is to use the report feature found in the lower right hand corner of the offending posts you are seeing here. In this case the offending posts are al... | |
| Tonearm microphonics @rauliruegas Totally wrong. The sound not comes from the tonearm: it can't be that way. Sound comes from the cartridge, that's the difference. Infection is hearing the sound from the speakers.Of course!! I'm sure this is a language issue as you ... | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations? I've been a big fan of the 6SN7- that tube is in all of our products. |