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| OTL Tube Amp for Maggie 3.6? We've got a lot of customers that like the combination so it must work... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps Zombie thread come to eat your brains! | |
| Tube Amp for Avalon Ascendants That speaker was always fairly tube-friendly. We had a good number of customers that used our MA-1s on them. How much did you spend on the Sonic Frontiers? You've not mentioned what the problem with them seems to be- it could be fairly simple. If ... | |
| Using digital preamp to tube power amp questions Tubes can definitely help with that...Since you are not changing the speakers, my recommendation is to stay away from SETs, since they simply don't make enough power. You will want 30-50 usable watts; in an SET that means about 150 watts total! No... | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? The EL34 has a very good reputation in the sound department. A lot depends on how well the ultra-linear taps on the transformer are executed; if done correctly the linearity is just about the same as triode so my vote is for the EL34 in ultralinea... | |
| Otari or Technics Reel-to-Reel ? We avoid doing anything to the sound of the source (no 'sweetening'); in theory some projects might need processing if there is bass that is out of phase or the like but so far we've not had to do anything like that- with a little care you can avo... | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? Mapman, while there are some solid state amps that have less of the 7th harmonic that has become the hallmark of transistor amplification, there are none that are at the low level that tube amps often demonstrate, although I think there are a few ... | |
| Using digital preamp to tube power amp questions If you want to use a Single Ended Triode amplifier, you will need a speaker with a lot more efficiency! For best results, whatever the power rating of the SET is, it should not be driven past about 20-15% of that value. For best results. | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? Gee, in all this time on this thread no one has bothered to mention the most distinguishing feature of tube amps vs solid state amps. That is the lack of the irritating harmonics present in solid state amps.Actually I did allude to that earlier... | |
| Otari or Technics Reel-to-Reel ? Lowrider57, the record plants take whatever media the master is on- 1/4" or 1/2" master tape or digital file, whatever. I say this as a mastering engineer; we have to be able to handle the master in whatever form it takes. | |
| Techinics Sp-10 Mk2a break-in period So in short, to answer the original question, the answer is 'almost nothing to no change at all'.Really the point is that it will likely keep running the way it had been for another 35 years... | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? To be more specific, my tube amp has a 1040 joule power supply. In my "un-technical" way, I interpret that as "head room" because my amp presumably can handle short term power demands that exceed its rated power output of 150 wpc, subject to FR, s... | |
| Otari or Technics Reel-to-Reel ? Its a matter of changing out the heads a tape guides, then recalibrating the electronics to the heads.Sony made a pro audio machine (APR 5003) that sounds quite good that had interchangeable head nests complete with guides. It takes only about 5 m... | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? Geoffkait's dynamic headroom theory falls apart when faced with a class A amplifier, which can be either tube or solid state. The Dynamic headroom of an amplifier is measured in decibels, and has to do with the class of operation and the amount of... | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? I should have written that sentence differently pointing out that output power depends on the topology of the tube - triode vs. ultra-linear vs. pentode with the output power going progressively higher as one moves from triode to pentode. Really i... |