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| What makes an amp sound more direct ? Mapman, Thanks for your comments!I think the goal should be to have the illusion of the performance being in the "room" with the listener. Realistically, this is best achieved with dynamic, high current capable speakers hooked to fully balanced... | |
| tt ground to phono section. solid copper? The ground is there to make sure the tone arm (which shields the cartridge wiring) is properly grounded so it won't impart noise to the signal. Any wire will work fine. | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? I have thought about matching these with my single-driver speakers but reluctant to do so based on previous experience.If you are going to run a lower-powered speaker like a Lowther, its in your best interest to install a speaker protection fuse ... | |
| What makes an amp sound more direct ? 'Direct' is a term that I don't really understand, but I do understand that when we got rid of the feedback in our amps, they seemed to sound much more like real music. Palpable, with all the instruments more distinct and available to the ear, if ... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Hold your left arm out in front of you (horizontally) with your palm facing toward the right.• Bend your wrist so your fingers point further to the right, so it resembles the headshell/cartridge offset.• Have someone tug on your fingertip in a d... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I noticed no one has mentioned the Heil Air Motion transformer; that came out in the 70's I believe, and there were some two way speakers that utilized it. Although I liked the highs that two way produced, the mid-range just wasn't mellow enou... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Dear Ralph (Atma-sphere), I beg to differ slightly with your analysis. For a typical pivoted tonearm that is mounted such that the stylus overhangs the spindle and the headshell has an offset angle, there will always be some skating force, eve... | |
| Preamp for audio research ref110 It's all good, but to me it's OK to live few days with unbalanced depleted signal. ARC preamps have very high line-stage gain so the volume won't be deficient at all till the other unit arrives.This does not see a good suggestion to me! In addit... | |
| Help choose best amp/preamp combo? Usually any impedance over 10k is considered high and acceptable by most preamps. The more sensitive preamps will start to roll off high frequencies as the amplifier impedance drops or the volume control is changed.This statement is not correc... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? In a conversation I had with Tri Mai of Triplanar he pointed out that there is no industry standard for how much anti-skate to apply. Further, it does appear that the amount of skating force is dependent on the geometry as well as the shape of the... | |
| JBL Everest DD67000 vs. Avantgarde Duo Mezzo I imagine you are an engineer associated with this company: http://www.atma-sphere.com/Hello gdhal, your surmise is correct. | |
| 5% THD to .000 THD SOUND This is a complex topic. But if you understand how the ear works it gets easier. So let's start there.Here are the human hearing/perceptual rules that are most important regarding this topic. There are three. They are:1) the human ear/brain system... | |
| DALI MEGALINE AMPS & CROSSOVER Albert had a custom tube crossover made of which he was emphatic that it made a huge difference- by comparison the stock crossover was so much junk. The crossover was built by Tom Tutay who does not go on the web- you have to call him. The last nu... | |
| JBL Everest DD67000 vs. Avantgarde Duo Mezzo whart, according to the spec they are 96db efficient. I would consider that "crazy efficient".The Everest is at the very bottom of what might be considered high efficiency and at the high end of what is considered moderate efficiency. The woofer a... | |
| A friend told me JBL DD67000 is actually very bad speaker, is it true? The Everest is excellent. It really is intended for either solid state amplifiers or tube amps employing lots of loop negative feedback. |