atmasphere
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| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Nothing sterile, tonally lean, mechanical or bright sounding about the Brit, I can tell you that, or whatever you’re implying about high power amps sonics. @phusis The issue is that most amps made using feedback, which includes high power solid... | |
| Preamp power supply capacitor upgrade @yowser I've worked with the V-Caps a lot. The Copper foil series is audibly superior (and measure better as well). Given how you're going about this the cost differential seems irrelevant. I do feel compelled to point out however that as couplin... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Example: even its inherent importance of speaker impedance phase no one name it and this is something to take care when we are choosing an amp @rauliruegas Actually this has been brought up in this thread. | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops It sounds like this is a combination of two things- a cartridge problem and perhaps also setup. The cartridge could have been dropped and the magnet knocked out of alignment. This can cause all kinds of weird stuff while the cartridge looks fine.... | |
| Excellent Solid State or Hybrid Monoblocks Recommendations I’m wondering how they would do driving difficult loads like the big Wilson’s. @carey1110 That depends on the class D amp, like it would if it was a class A amp. Some will do great. IME the Wilsons have a low impedance but otherwise are not ha... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? If a speaker requires an amp/ arc welder up front to drive it, then IMO, there is a problem with the speaker design. YMMV. Exactly! Such speakers border on criminal as there simply aren't amps that sound like music that can drive them nor would... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? I suggest since you are such a big fan of the Parasound JC1+'s sound that you go out and immediately buy a pair, if you haven't already...That's what I am talking about...;0) @daveyf :) Distortion vs frequency is a better measure of how music... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? The physics of the speaker is a balancing act: if you want more efficiency you give up other advantages. Im not saying this is wrong, it’s simply a choice. A moderate efficiency speaker (86dB 1w/1m) is not a mistake either as it is just a differe... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops @jjbeason14 I think we need to know what 'flubbing' means in this case. One thing that can cause ticks and pops is the input of the phono section overloading at ultrasonic frequencies. This is actually pretty common and is caused by the inductanc... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Problem is that they also require a very large ss amp upstream to drive them. Something that can push a lot of current, which pretty much rules out most low-mid ( maybe even high) powered tube amps. When I mentioned this to the person doing the d... | |
| Audible High Pitched Hum... Advice Needed @ajnackman Why do you have the streamer grounded to the same place as the phono? That's a recipe for a ground loop. Won't the streamer work without grounding it? | |
| Preamp - what's the purpose? either is ok, modified sound with pre or pure sound with no pre. once you feel pure taste with no sauce, you will remove the preamp! @r27y8u92 I have LPs and CDs I recorded. I find that using a preamp gets me more neutral sound as the preamp i... | |
| Are your record surfaces as silent as CDs? Technically, vinyl can only give you about 60db S/N exclusive of the pre-amp (although different vinyls these days provide somewhat better that that) @pcolvin Actually LP surfaces can be quite a bit lower noise than that. Acoustic Sounds found ... | |
| Excellent Solid State or Hybrid Monoblocks Recommendations I suspect that the gan fet is a chunk of this progress assuming it is well implemented. I am gonna pick up some class D monoblocks in the near future..... @jaymark What GaNFETs bring to the table is low noise. You really do want a class D amp ... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? Should spatial perception x what you describe differ for, say, bass in outdoor setups (I am sorry - I realize this is slightly tangential from the OP query)? @benanders Outdoors we can sort out where bass notes come from. But in most rooms indoor... |