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| Moving Coil Transformers And Preamps...Which ones Jensen makes excellent SUTs for low output moving coil cartridges.Loading of the output of the SUT is critical, regardless of the SUT, for best performance! | |
| SET vs OTL The Audio Note AN-e LX HE is a fairly benign load and is no problem for an OTL of sufficient power- our customers use our M-60s on that speaker. The speaker definitely benefits from the greater power! | |
| Importance of input tubes to sound quality? FWIW I think I was wrong about tubes in this amp. So far I've only found reference to the 6922's and atmosphere is right with this amp. Now if I could just remember the amp I was thinking about. Italian perhaps?No- the two tube types are simply ... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps It not exactly clear what you are talking about, but if I read this right you are incorrect about increasing the impedance of a speaker. One way to do it is to put drivers in series rather than parallel; of course that is a design issue.There are ... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Oh, brother! Are you pulling my leg? Yes, Thought I made that clear! | |
| Tonearm recommendation Does anyone here have any experience comparing the Durand and the Reed ?I've not heard that comparison but I have heard it against the Triplanar. I used my own LP (IOW, one I recorded myself, Canto General) for the comparison. The Talea was very s... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps How do you categorize amplifier with an output transformer?OTL?Are we going in circle?or we might just go back to SE or PP.The mean reason why these amp were design is that they will work without OPT.Again, what we found after getting into the bu... | |
| Importance of input tubes to sound quality? ^^ FWIW 12AX7s and 6922s are **not** interchangeable. | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... The speed of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum is what 186,000 miles per second, right? And in a conductor it is a large fraction of c, let’s say it’s 80% of c or about 150,000 miles per second. That’s close to c, and that’s why I refer to it a... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... I never said they did travel at the speed of light in cables.Really? Wut up?:As I said previously RFI/EMI is light speed due to the photons involved whilst the other - magnetic field - is stationary. The audio signal moves VERY rapidly. It moves ... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Turns out signals in cables don't travel at the speed of light anyway:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factorIt would appear that Geoff has opened a new branch of physics. If you can slow down photons to the degree upon which he insists then... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Dear atmasphere: You was the person that in 2011-2012 posted that we can’t overdamp the TT/platter TT " and from your today post sure we can overdamp if we interfere with its natural movement.I suspected that was the case and so made sure that I... | |
| Importance of input tubes to sound quality? The input tubes on our amps are the most important to the sound, assuming that the power tubes are good. The fact is if the input tube does not get it right, the rest of the amp can't make up for it. | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps The ZERO will not kill dynamics. The ZERO is a problem solver, used when someone wants to drive a speaker that is lower impedance, perhaps too low for the OTL to do on its own. All you have to do if you don't want to use the ZEROs is get a speaker... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... The 'why' is I was simply dealing very directly with the statement you made which I quoted above so the context is very immediate. Here it is again:Electrons carry charge, whereas the music signal is an electromagnetic EM wave so it (the signal) ... |