atmasphere
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| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? there is usually a lot of distortion in the recording already. How do you try to correct that? Or you simply live with it and do your best not to make it worse?There may or may not depending entirely on the recording.You certainly don't want to... | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? @blindjim , all the comments regarding speaker efficiency are spot on.And you are quite correct that different brands of power tubes are going to sound different. Once you settle on a particular power tube type, then you sort out which brand of th... | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? The difference between tubes themselves is not that profound. They are just tubes and they have very similar linearity and bandwidth. This is not true of output transformers! Here's the problem- the more power there is, the harder it is to get ba... | |
| Move to tubes: Ayon Crossfire or Triton, various @zephyr24069The TAD seems like it should not be a problem by all the information I’ve been able to find. It does not look particularly difficult to drive by a tube amp. | |
| Move to tubes: Ayon Crossfire or Triton, various @zephyr24069 I find that S/N ratio, THD and Damping Factor (the higher the better, my current amp is a champ here; it also has separate input and output transformers and only 2 gain stages)There is no speaker made that needs more than about 20:1... | |
| FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY STING LIKE A BEE Yes, there are, both tube and solid state. | |
| Class D is just Dandy! Oversimplifying, 'Hybrid' means that the digital source is upsampled to the scan frequency of the amp. | |
| Move to tubes: Ayon Crossfire or Triton, various I would not call the speaker 'incredibly efficient', its sensitivity is 94 db but because it is also 4 ohms the actual efficiency is 91 db.But that is not so hard to drive and since the deep bass is handled by a separate amp, I think our MA-1 coul... | |
| Amp recommendations Do you think the Zero's would allow him to use the integrated Mac's (that sounds a bit racist, doesn't it?).Yes. | |
| impact of op amps on preamp design I prefer tubes but I've heard opamp based circuits sound quite good. Execution is pretty important regardless of the devices used. Give it a listen- if you can live with it and love it is what is important. | |
| Fuses fuses fuses Who are these 'naysayers'?? The ones saying they can hear the difference, or the ones that confirm that there is a reason they can hear a difference?I suspect those two groups are not the naysayers... because confirmation isn't naysaying. Best I c... | |
| Fuses fuses fuses why on Earth would they have even had someone test fuses if not to prove - or at least show evidence - that fuses in general are directional and that HiFi Tuning fuses exhibited better measured characteristics in terms of conductivity than oth... | |
| Best Tube Amp For Sonus Faber? Or Pass XA-100.5? $6-7,500 Budget, Purchasing Used. A tube creates distortionMost transistors create a lot more. In fact triodes are extremely linear! What makes distortion in any amp is not so much the devices used, but **how** they are used: the topology. Some tube amps are inherently extremely l... | |
| Fuses fuses fuses No.A fuse has a voltage drop and in the case of fast blow fuses, one that can be pretty variable as current varies through the device. This usually has an adverse effect on the sound if nothing is done in the circuit to deal with the phenomena.Eli... | |
| Help me decide what to do with old tube amps It would not be a problem to get either refurbished. The parts likely needed are power supply filter capacitors, which are not proprietary. Any competent technician could handle the repair. |