atmasphere
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| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? I have a friend that streams all her music. After hearing the same music on LP at my house, she tells me that she really regrets having sold her LPs and turntable...2016 was the first year that LP sales outsold streaming in the UK...from the Guard... | |
| Have you ever tried a pair of speakers and said this Is the last thing I will ever need. Sound Labs. Maybe my vintage pair won’t last as long as something newer and the newer ones will be compatible with lower powered amps, but I sonically, I can’t ask for anything more. They leave all my prior speakers and most others I have heard... | |
| All I want is The Truth, just gimme some truth... The manufacturer claims,” there are no resistors or capacitors in the signal path”. With respect to “capacitors” I agree, as it is dc coupled, for the ”resistors” a clear FALSE. 'Photocells' are usually cadmium-sulfide resistors, which is to sa... | |
| Is it too bright or is it high resolution? One must wonder if a "to bright" presentation may be the result of harmonic distortion. Whether this is an amplifier issue a preamplifier issue or the interplay between the electronics and speakers. I am certain that we all want all of the det... | |
| Impedance matching between 2k ohm phono pre and 100k ohm amps via passive pre The low impedance is on the drive side so that is not a concern. | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design I do not think the ZEROs will be useful on this speaker.The ZEROs should always be regarded as a problem solver (and for any amplifier). The problem is that the amp sounds worse without them, in a nutshell. If the amp sounds better without them th... | |
| Is It Safe to Warm Up Power Amps Without Speakers Attached It will damage tube amplifiers.Worse yet is "moving over" speaker wires to the amp while its powered up. A good way to damage, possibly permanently, the output stage of the amp.These statements are false. What is true is that some amps are stabl... | |
| Tube Pre+ Transistor Power will burn your power Amp. easily? I agree with your other responses, I think this is not valid but I'm not certain. I'd like to find out from an expert just to be certain.Some consider me to be an expert... the idea that a tube preamp can do anything to a solid state amp in pa... | |
| Tube vs Solid State Would this be a good time to add those Zero autoformers that Ralph advocates?Maybe.What I was thinking is that hard to drive speakers are hard to drive. As the many posts in this thread are pointing out.Amps of any persuasion don't like working ha... | |
| Is it too bright or is it high resolution? Bright is a bad thing. Its a coloration.Detailed is a good thing.Quite often the two are found together. This gives detail a bad name!Its possible to be extremely detailed and yet quite relaxed. Brightness is often not an actual frequency response... | |
| 6C33C tubes - sonics, implementation & availability ^^ the survival guide is good with one exception; Romy's assessment of the Japanese socket is flat out mistaken! They actually have a shorter life than the ceramic sockets and should be avoided. This is because the 'plastic' he refers to is actual... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? We've showed with a lot of excellent digital gear at shows. One of the best was the Stahltek, so far ahead of the dcs, msb and the like that quite often I found myself looking at the turntable to see if an LP was playing. IOW it was pretty darn mu... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? You will realize vinyl is better if you like snaps, crackles and pops.In many cases ticks and pops are actually artifacts of the phono section; while the actual tick or pop is on the LP surface, if the phono section is unstable it will exacerbate ... | |
| Why does bi-amping speakers sound better? I've not found that biamping works all that well but there are a ton of variables.Two of them are amplifier quality and speaker quality.A third is the quality of the crossover- which is certainly one of the more important variables!Now the amps I ... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? It always sounded better to me. Early on using digital recorders, I noticed that there was this weird distortion, which is an intermodulation with the scan frequency. If you record with an analog sweep tone, its easy enough to hear the distortion.... |