atmasphere
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| Planar ribbon speaker and Tubes Not working Please help! Tubes + ESL's...Not good! ESL's can dip to 1/2 an ohm! They need pure solid state muscle to drive them correctly...Your PL's don't have it.Just a FWIW- in this case a magnetic planar is being used. @audiogurujax I would see if you can borrow a se... | |
| Switching from solid state to tubes The front channels are the dominant channels- its not silly at all to use tubes for that. Have you tried a tube amp on your Sonus Fabers? I suspect you will want to use the 4 ohm taps.The problem you have is that a good tube amp that sounds musica... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? Thanks, I appreciate your letting me know what I'm doing wrong. I don't want anyone to think that there is actual snake oil under the hood.Thinking it and Being it are two different things. No-one wants people to think there is snake oil in their... | |
| Loud popping sounds after warm-up I doubt that its a filter capacitor or output device. Popping is not a symptom of either in failure mode! A bad solderjoint is far more likely. | |
| Planar ribbon speaker and Tubes Not working Please help! Are you certain the impedance is that high? Your comments suggest that the tweeter impedance is lower than you think.Check the speaker and see if there is a choke in series with the woofer panel. If not, its impedance is in parallel with that of t... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? @roger_paul How do you know your circuit works??I ask simply because in the past you've not indicated that you have any means of quantifying this timing thing you talk about. Just so you know, that's a bit of Red Flag. | |
| Switching to solid state amp? Ralph I had my current amps worked on recently and one of them came back dead. So not reliable. I will need to replace.'Dead' is usually something simple! If the amp was just serviced and was dead upon arrival, it could also be something simple f... | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? @robd1Is this statement from @atmasphere above true?"At the other end of the range, the speaker is pretty low impedance (1.5 to 3 ohms depending on the position of the Brilliance control) which will cause most solid state amps to be too bright and... | |
| Switching to solid state amp? @bobheinatz , what sort of problems are you having with your current amps? Do you think they can't be fixed so they'll hold up? | |
| Cary SLI-80 with one blown rectifier tube, BUT STILL WORKS just fine. How? Al, the reason there are two rectifiers is so that they will hold up when the amp is at full power. At lower power levels one rectifier tube is sufficient.IOW, the amp is be safe to operate (its been that way already) as long as the volume were no... | |
| Linestage search Why those two? | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? Do you even listen to music? :) I have about 8,000 LPs and not one is Nina Simone, so yes...Many tube amps do not have a decently flat frequency response under real loads (just look at the Stereophile graphs - they are often horrible). Often the... | |
| Why do turntables sound different? The exact science behind it let alone art remain elusive.I laid out what the engineering principles are. How well a turntable manufacturer adheres to them will determine how neutral their machine is.We have a Studer A-80 in the studio. Of all the ... | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? Imaging? Relaxed presentation? Bass juiciness? Best presentation of Nina Simone you ever heard? Yes, yes, yes and who??When I have the right amp in the system, its a lot easier to convince my girlfriend to spend the evening spinning LPs... | |
| Why do turntables sound different? Ralph, though you express your own opinion, I think that you misinform some people. You did say that there were many tables that you had not heard. Why would you choose the Technics before auditioning all of the top tables? And tonearms. And ca... |