atmasphere
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| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. by far these panels are far better controlled with the High Current of a Solid StateAmplifier, where Vacuum tubes are Voltage driven .Current is what you need to get ultimate control ,with a Vacuum tube preamp you can still have the sonic signa... | |
| ...a second listen is that across the board with all tables?Yes. The problem is finding a mat that is neutral. Obviously a lot of them cause more problems than they solve so no mat at all might be preferable in some cases.How do your findings relate to a tt with a v... | |
| ...a second listen The mat is a pretty important part of the turntable! It controls resonance in the vinyl caused by the tracking of the cartridge. If not controlled, the resonance can talk back to the needle and so mess up the sound.The proper mat will be of the sa... | |
| Is my amp the problem? Wow- that's a rather scathing indictment on a Crown class D amp. Can't even keep up with an aging and clearly limping conventional solid state amp. Sheesh. | |
| Experience with Tannoy Westminster Royal Gold Reference Our customers have had really good comments working with this speaker. It seems to be very tube friendly. | |
| Tube amp sitting unused for a long time There's a cheap why to start this up without a variac. You use a 40 watt incandescent light bulb.It has to be wired in series with the AC power cord. By that I mean that if you turn on the amp, the current for the amp should also flow through the ... | |
| Why warm amps sound better. In addition to bias points (operating points) filter caps need to charge up and they charge on an exponential curve. So that last nth degree takes a while. Filter caps are usually electrolytic and electrolytics are funny things, sort of a cross be... | |
| 4 ohms , 6 ohms, or 8 ohms??? The thing about a set of ZEROs is that they can allow you more flexibility.For example you could run the amp straight into the mid/tweeter section while using the ZEROs for the bass section (assuming that the speaker is bi-wirable).OTOH you're not... | |
| Is my amp the problem? The XO is a Pioneer SF 700. I will use it only as a low pass at approx 200hz. This is to compare with the mindsp re input impedance and output voltage. I am using a cap on the input of the Modwright as a hi pass.Just as an experiment, what happe... | |
| Is my amp the problem? @jimbones , FWIW, polarity is also known as absolute phase. I'm **not** talking about that, instead the phase of just one speaker as opposed to both. We might be talking the same thing, but since there is a bit of interpretation here I thought it ... | |
| Power conditioner help We just finished the rebuild of one of the lower powered Elgars (which is to say that it handles 1000 VA; about 8.5 amps at 117V). It regulates the line voltage such that with 100 - 130 volts input, the output is rock stable, with no distortion of... | |
| Is my amp the problem? Uh- all good suggestions, but before you do anything else, check to see that the woofers are in phase.That is to say, if the red connection on the back of the amp is connected to the plus terminal of the speaker, that such is also the case with th... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. But in my experience, a good dose of juice gives electrostatic loudspeakers (to stay on topic) a more effortless quality better kick in the lower registers....I've yet to hear a solid state amp play bass properly on an ESL, in particular Sound L... | |
| 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... |