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| How to repair or replace a power transformer? Sometimes a power transformer can have design issues- such as a spot in the part where a winding makes a bend that causes the insulation to fail. That can lead to windings shorting, the transformer thus running hotter so more windings short and so... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... (I happen to think Geoff was in the middle of making a very good and valid point about magnetic fields here originally before he was so shrewdly interrupted ;-)He got interrupted because he didn't understand how magnetic fields worked. This was ... | |
| Tonearm recommendation I guess my post had as much effect on the argumentative nature of the discussion as a loud burp. I can stop any time I want to. | |
| Is New Vinyl Exempt from Loudness Wars? while the cutting lathes are truly magnificent machines and properly maintained stand the test of time beautifully… The format itself was not made to reproduce the kind of loud and often distorted music we have today.Vinyl is an analogue format... | |
| What is the best OTL out there? I hope it arrives in good shape!Our Michigan dealer has Paragons (if I recall right, the big one and the little one). He says our amps work fine with them. I've not experienced it myself- but you could ask him- he's the guy that makes the Classic ... | |
| OTL amplifiers The advantage is this:Its not possible to build and use an autoformer with the performance of the ZERO if you don't start with an amplifier that does not already have a fairly low output impedance and does not put DC through the winding of the tra... | |
| question about ss or tubes Grados do fine with detail- just like any other cartridge, care and feeding is important (IOW they have to be set up properly). When was the last time you got the tubes tested in your Quicksilver? Maybe they just need replacement? | |
| Latest Absolute Sound The latest issue has at least one review of an amplifier that costs under $5K. | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps If the Berning folks might be stretching it a bit to call their amp an OTL, what about companies, like Tenor (I believe), that put out a solid state amp that they described as OTL? This was absolutely true, but, aside from a few solid state am... | |
| What is the best OTL out there? Most OTL are not producing enough plate dissipation for a pair of tubes,Imagine for a pair of 6c33c tube with max.of 60 watts plate dissipation can produce more than 25 watts class A of power, 3 x of 300b output in SE.Its not a matter of plate... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps I use the Classic Audio Loudspeakers model T-3.3 at home. It goes down to 20Hz. A set of our M-60s has no troubles driving them to very high volume levels with very satisfying bass (shakes the house). M-60s are full power down to 2Hz. Like **any*... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... If it sounds any way all the time, even smooth and relaxing, that is not a good thing to me. Its not good either if the sound is continuously irritating and chases me out of the room. Its OK if some recordings are and come out that way.I agr... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... The human ear is tuned to be the most sensitive at bird-song frequencies. It also uses higher ordered harmonics to calculate how loud a sound is- its not doing that from the fundamental frequencies as such are quite rare in a pure form in nature. ... | |
| question about ss or tubes Both tube and solid state take some time to break in; in addition both take time to warm up. Tubes take about two hours to really sound right and solid state takes 24 hours to a week (meaning that if its a solid state preamp it should be left on a... | |
| A push-pull tube design and Single-ended class A designs Generally speaking, if you want to explore what SETs really have to offer, higher efficiency loudspeakers of easy impedance (8-16 ohms) are preferred.A great speaker would be the Classic Audio Loudspeakers Hartsfield reproduction. Its about 105 db... |