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| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? @inna I think you're looking at this the wrong way. Tubes sound the way they do because of the distortion they make. If you can make something else to make distortion of the same kind it will sound the same for that reason. There are lots of thi... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Ralph, I hope you are wrong about tube power amps becoming obsolete soon enough. It pains me. I am a traditionalist of a sort and don't want to hear it. @inna Seriously I wouldn't worry about it. There are tubes for now and I think you'll find ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Ralph might partly disagree, but tubes are like tape - there is currently no substitute. @inna You're correct in that I 'might' disagree. There are class D amps now that have the same distortion signature as a good tube amp and so unsurprising... | |
| New Generation Class D - AGD Audion Mkiii upgrade I am waiting to see when Atma- Sphere will be tak8ng the next step up in technologies , Ralph doesnot exactly state the module @audioman58 Actually I have a good number of times- we developed our own Atma-Sphere module. We are an engineering ... | |
| Audio Research reference amplifiers used with RCA IC`s and unbalanced preamplifiers 👍 | |
| Audio Research reference amplifiers used with RCA IC`s and unbalanced preamplifiers Also, Kalvin is not retired and is at ARC and is usually the guy who answers the phone. @speedthrills I went to Ward's funeral (RIP, Ward) a couple of years ago and saw Kalvin there. He told me he had left ARC a couple of years earlier. If he h... | |
| Audio Research reference amplifiers used with RCA IC`s and unbalanced preamplifiers As these amplifiers are fully balanced and don't have an RCA input, can I use RCA interconnects with a conversion plug from RCA to balanced at the amplifier input and will it work in my system? @nsp I think the answer is no. IIRC, these two am... | |
| Radical toe in once more Is there an "inherent" problem with radical toe in, when the main sound from the front drivers cross in front of the listener, instead of the more conventional setup where the crossing point is behind the listener - and if so, what? @o_holter T... | |
| 300b lovers It doesn't mean you cannot build a nice amp that uses NFB, but that "air" and sense of "realism" that you treasure is hindered by NFB. That depends on how the feedback is implemented!! If the feedback is sent to a non-linear point in the input ... | |
| Best speakers for classic rock Yeah right....you’ll make a sarod and a piano sound the same (equally flippin brilliant) on every kind of speaker...Immense Bullsht is what it is! Lol @deep_333 I never said anything like that (take a look). Of course different speakers sound... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps Can anyone provide a working definition of "neutral?" In other words, a point from which we can agree is indeed sonically neutral? Neutral equipment makes no editorial of the signal. The Absolute Sound magazine gets its name from the idea that... | |
| Best speakers for classic rock Again??? Spoken like a simpleton....over and over What’s your real story here dude? Did you blow all your cash on a single pair of speakers (’cost no object’ or something?) and you’re trying to convince yourself somehow that it is simply the be... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps To atmasphere: Knowing your background of tube design, etc., would you recommend perhaps using a SS power amp with a tube preamplifier? Or perhaps a ss / tube hybrid integrated? Thanks. @gregjacob If the speakers are low efficiency as the ... | |
| 300b lovers .... and those treasure globes look SO COOL!! @1markr They look neat, but the globe is highly resonant. If the tube develops microphonics the globe exacerbates the problem. The regular Linlai tube does not have this problem. | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions @marshinski15 , @soix has given you excellent advice. Four Ohm speakers are usually not the best way to be introduced to a tube amplifier. If it has an output transformer (and most do, but not all) you can lose as much as an octave of bandwidth in... |