atmasphere
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| Acceptable Level Ground/Earth Noise I did forget to mention it gets louder when I touch the tone arm so could be something else. Most definitely! The tone arm tube should have continuity to the chassis of your phono preamp. If it does not, hum is a likely result.Is some level of hum... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Those effects will become increasingly pronounced as speaker impedance in that octave decreases relative to amplifier output impedance, everything else being equal. Al, as I mentioned earlier, the impedance curve of any ESL is not a graph of its... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? @nandric Cartridge loading is required if the phono section is unstable with ultrasonic or radio frequency signals present, which will be the case with all LOMC cartridges. This is because their inductance interacts with the capacitance of the ton... | |
| Electronics for Harbeth, Especially Monitor 40 series We have customers who really like their Harbeths- this particular model is quite tube-friendly. | |
| Input/Output line level transformers for digital glare My "test " is a Rush song called " Red Barschetta" that I found great on a lp in the treble & cymbals, but streaming or cd, nope!It may not be the fault of the digital gear that this sounds bad. It might just be a poor transfer. If other reco... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. If they have a 2 ohm tap I would expect them to work fine. | |
| Do all tube preamps leak DC? He might have got that from Krell. Its a rumor and nothing more.It's been a very long time since I touched a tube preamp, but as I recall, the film caps do have a smidgen of DC leak. Maybe 50uV was closer to the truth, and yes, film caps will te... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Ralph, I’d still like to get your opinion on McIntosh amps with autoformers. Just in general, do you think they are a good sounding amp compared with other amps in their price ranges? Do they implement their autoformers well? Would they be a go... | |
| Input/Output line level transformers for digital glare I still notice all the outboard Dac's, good ones, I think still have output transformers vs other methodsi also see the transformer guys; lyndall & Jensen advertise the output transformers as smoothing of digitis?Some do some don't.A good tra... | |
| Do all tube preamps leak DC? Almost all preamps and amps have a tiny bit of DC offset. Maybe 5 mV or less for a pre, 60mV or less for an amp. A preamp with 5 mV of DC at its output is rare. Our preamps have direct-coupled outputs and they have less DC Offset than that!With **... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. ^^ to further build on that, many transistor amps can't continue to increase power into low impedance loads like 0.5 ohms. Further, the speaker cable itself becomes a significant factor when dealing with impedances like this!!This works in ML's fa... | |
| Input/Output line level transformers for digital glare @sbank The reason a transformer might help if it has limited bandwidth, would be to filter out digital noise. I've seen at least one DAC that sounded pretty good in its day that incorporated the inductance of the transformer as part of the smooth... | |
| Best amps to use for the Dali megalines Dali has been pretty specific about using the same amp on the bottom as you have on top. | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. One last thing, most ESL's are really not very neutral. Almost all can benefit significantly from digital EQ from the midrange on up. I find that ESLs can be quite neutral! You are correct though that if there is a problem on the amplifier side, ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Are you PAYED BY THEM?Most all tube amps use output transformers with impedance taps that work just fine into 4 or 6 or even 16 ohms!The Zero is of NO VALUE to most tube amps!No- I have no financial relationship with Paul Speltz or his company. H... |