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| Quick Poll: Which of the following systems sounds best with Vandersteen 2C's? That speaker is really tube friendly and the best I've ever heard it has always been with tubes. FWIW. | |
| Capacitance loading and fixed coil cartridges @karl_desch , Here's how it works:With a low output cartridge you don't add any capacitance!The issue of loading (which is what you are asking about) works like this: The cartridge has an inductance which interacts with any capacitance present (us... | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" @nandric , I have several LPs which I recorded (the first being Canto General, music of Mikas Theodorakis). For that recording we got the biggest bass drum in the state, which was a good six feet across. I have the master tapes and I know how this... | |
| I need a good Preamp @wemfan, Atma-Sphere produced the first balanced line products for high end audio. That was back in the mid 1980s. | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design @charles1dad , I think you might misunderstand. People hang on to their equipment, sometimes for life **regardless of the equipment**. To say that it "never goes one way" as you did earlier must be seen by a reasonable person as incorrect. That's ... | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" I don't belive that I need lessons about the use ofquantifiers. I addressed the participants in this thread so my quantor ''nobody'' does not include the whole universe but only members whoreacted to my post. You are also included because you also... | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design These things never move in only one direction. When I first got started decades ago it took me a while to get used to the fact that people would sell our amps and look for something else. Over the years though the one thing that has really shown ... | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" To my surprise nobody try the same experiment but invented all kinds of answers whichare irrelevant for my question.@nandric, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. ’Nobody’ is incorrectly used in your posts so far. ’Some people’ might b... | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design ^^ Rear right and rear left are the input tubes, in parallel.They are part of a single gain stage called a differential cascode, common in solid state circuits but unusual in tubes- when we first started using this topology we were the first to do... | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design OK: you asked. A lot has to do with the speaker of course, but the feedback we have from customers is that if the two amps are on a speaker that is friendly to both that essentially it is as you surmise. But we get that a lot and not just with com... | |
| Short Lifetime for 6NS7 Tubes In the case of the MP-1, the CCS tubes can be GTs. They only have about 100V per section on them.The life test won't damage the tube at all. | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design Yes. | |
| It is a good idea to purchase a vintage tube pre-amp. @tubegroover , are these caps at the output of the preamp? If so, what sort of amp are they driving?A very common issue that faces preamp manufacturers is the value of the output coupling cap. This is often defined by the lowest impedance that the... | |
| turntable/cartridge for old 50's 60's rock records. There is no such thing as a cartridge that is better at rock than it is at some other form of music. The same is true of a turntable. | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design Not that I know of. The tube testers I've seen don't make that distinction. If in doubt treat the tube as a GT. |