atmasphere
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| Speaker recommendation for a Fisher 500-c If you can find a set of Audiokinesis loudspeakers you will do well. IMO a speaker that is easy to drive will be important. | |
| DAC vs. Preamp bubba12, I've heard very good things about the Exogal! | |
| ARE YOU A " TRUE EXPERT AUDIOPHILE " ( T E A ) ??? ^^ Agreed. As soon as you think you have all the answers is when Bad Things happen :) | |
| Balanced Audio Technology Preamp - Tube compatibility question - Help I would not worry about this at all. If pin one is connected to something, so what? You don't have a metal base tube, but if you did pin one would be the case of the tube- even then it would not amount to anything. So play it with no worries. | |
| About a year ago I suspect the outfit was in Mound House, NV. They have a 6L6 in production. | |
| Suggestion used tube amp between $1,500-2,000 Had you looked into a rebuilt H/K Citation 2?The Citation had/has excellent bandwidth even be today's standards. I mention this amp as it is still a contender and a fellow named Jim McShane is well-known for excellent rebuilds which will challenge... | |
| Unique problem - one channel silent under different variables If swapping the cables left for right causes the problem to go away, the problem is unlikely to be the preamp or amp. Its far more likely to be a failing connection in one of the interconnect cables. The act of switching it to the other channel mi... | |
| DAC vs. Preamp There are four functions that any line stage of a preamp has to be able to do:1) provide volume control2) add any needed gain3) select inputs4) control the interconnect cable to the amp/prevent it from having a sonic artifactIts the last function ... | |
| interesting phenomena in the cutting room To really get that right though the LP should be recorded Direct to Disc so that the limitations of the other formats aren't built into the recording.We did our Canto General recording on both LP and CD, both made from the master tapes. Which mean... | |
| interesting phenomena in the cutting room Raul, IMO/IME as soon as someone tries to set themselves up as an expert in this field, they run the risk of Audiophile Guru Syndrome (AGS), wherein if the knowledge does not emit from their mouths then it must be some form of blasphemy. I think w... | |
| Tube preamp reliability vs SS? Gain is not a tube or solid state thing. Its easy enough to deal with that either way so I would not use that as a criteria. | |
| that first watt in a PP amp It depends on the P-P amp, but most of them have increasing distortion as power is decreased below a certain point, usually about 5% or less of full power. So to compare against a SET amp, you want one that is maybe about 1/2 the power of the SET.... | |
| interesting phenomena in the cutting room What's a True Expert Audiophile??Regarding 'accuracy': a big problem in knowing accuracy is your reference. I use an LP that I recorded myself, and having the master tapes know how its supposed to sound. So the LP is very useful in that regard- in... | |
| interesting phenomena in the cutting room How difficult in terms of budget, contract etc to re-issue let's say Hank Mobley "Soul Station" or Oliver Nelson "Nocturne" from original tapes? Did you try any of a kind?To do this you have to gain permission to do the project (usually with som... | |
| interesting phenomena in the cutting room The quality of the recording has more to do with the producer than anything else. We've done some projects where the recording was clearly not up to snuff but that is what the band or label wanted, and its client/vendor relationship. We've tried t... |