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| Ideal Cheap Low-Watt Amp for Martin Logan Quest You might consider Audiokinesis loudspeakers. They are wide bandwidth, revealing, easy to drive and reasonably priced! | |
| EL34 SE as stable with complex music as EL84 PP ? With a speaker that inefficient you will need a single-ended amplifier of much greater power- 50-100 watts, that is if you don't want to drive the amp too hard. Single-ended amps do their best if not driven past about 20-25% of full power.OTOH a p... | |
| The Hifi Trajectory Of Class D Amplifiers Class D has completely taken over the bottom end of the market. The amps in your cell phone are class D. Class D has arrived insofar as its ability to challenge conventional solid state is concerned. I use a Crown class D amp for amplification of ... | |
| Tube preamp for under $3000 You can sometimes find an Atma-Sphere MP-3 used for that price range. | |
| Ideal Cheap Low-Watt Amp for Martin Logan Quest If you are off grid you might want to look at a Class D amp if you are married to the speakers.OTOH, just because a speaker is more efficient does not mean it somehow has to be less revealing. You might want to consider a speaker that is easier to... | |
| What's a contender to an Audio Reference 5 SE? The Plinius has a balanced input. Here is a brief list that might suit:Atma-Sphere MP-1 or MP-3BAT Vk51AesthetixEinstein 'the Tube'Allnic L5000DHTYou are not limited to balanced operation however- preamps that easily keep up with the ARC:Convergen... | |
| Open Baffle Convert Open baffle has rear output which allows the speaker to take advantage of the ear/brain system's abilities to find the source of the sound- in effect, the reflected sound improves the soundstage.They can make bass too if properly set up. However i... | |
| Has anyone auditioned Prana Fidelity speakers? We used them at a show 2 years ago and they did the job no worries. Smooth extended and detailed. | |
| Advice re the use of OTL amps vs others Adding a ZERO which is after all a transformer after the otl ? Does it not defeat the whole purpose and sonics of otl in the first place ? How much of the otl sound remains after that ?IMO/IME there is a simple rule of thumb: the ZERO should help ... | |
| Advice re the use of OTL amps vs others Broadstone, If you are getting enough power with the Cary (which is about 40 watts to my understanding) then the S-30 with a set of ZEROs will do the job- it will make about 45-50 watts in that situation.BTW, all you have to do to contact Atma-Sph... | |
| tube vs SS my own little test If the amp had been sitting a while it may have taken a bit of time to form up the filter capacitors in the power supply. Prior to that the amp would not have sounded very good- that is a common experience!In such a case if you continue to play th... | |
| Solid state power + tube pre or visa versa? Yes- that part is not false. Just the statement as I quoted. | |
| compact tube amp and in wall speaker If I get a efficient in wall or bookshelf, will 10 tube watts drive high 80's low -90 dB speakers?You sort of answered this question already- high 80s is not efficient, nor for that matter is the low 90s (that might considered medium efficiency). ... | |
| Transitioning from SS to tube amplification Looking at the specs, the speaker is rated at 92 db 2.83 volts/1 meter (being an 8 ohm load, the efficiency is the same). The minimum impedance is 6 ohms. This should be an easy speaker to drive and in most rooms 60 watts would be plenty of power. | |
| amp power & driver sensitivity in multiamp setup Yes.In the case of driving a 5 ohm driver, the output of the amp will be lower power and higher distortion. Since its a tweeter, this might not be much of an issue as there is little power that is needed for a tweeter.The 16 ohm load will also res... |