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| What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today? So, you are an expert on damping? You spent hundreds of hours with various damping materials and used them everywhere and you know which damping materials are linear and which are not and where to use it and where not to use it? 🙄 We've had op... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps I am on a quest for a lush, warm and romantic tube amp. Ideally, it should be 75 watts and upwards. I’m in a large room and my speakers are 87.5 sensitivity and 8 ohm. @bluethinker If the above is correct you will find that 75 Watts is not enou... | |
| Is a GAn amp worth the switch? When implemented correctly, they can sound as good as Class A, Class AB, SOME,,,NOT ALL Tube designs. IMO/IME they can sound better than any tube design. For this reason I think tube power amplifiers are on borrowed time. less then 25% of the... | |
| What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today? DO NOT OVERDAMP! It is impossible to overdamp. If adding too much damping seems to mess things up its because the damping device or material really isn't that good at its job so its adding a coloration of its own. FWIW I've found our class D a... | |
| Tube amplifiers - software recalibration? Do tube amplifiers need calibration adjustments periodically? Absent being properly calibrated can this cause amps to be shut down due to existing voltage monitoring controls designed to protect the tubes? @emergingsoul Some amps need adjustme... | |
| Tube measurement question... @bh123 I have a different take on what those numbers mean. If they are handwritten, I would expect them to be a reading taken from a tester, which suggests that the Psvane tube is a bit stronger. All tubes are built to a tube spec, so that if bia... | |
| 4 ohm. > 89 db. @jpwarren58Â If you have a choice, 4 Ohms is a harder load for all amplifiers and as a result they make more distortion driving such a load. So if the speaker could be made to be 8 or 16 Ohms without otherwise changing it, it would sound smoother... | |
| Best speakers for classic rock Again: The idea that a speaker is the best for a certain genre of music is one of the biggest myths in audio. Is 'classic' rock from the 50s, 60s, or 70s? Or, if one is a bit younger, does that mean 80s and some 90s? I actually had someone ask m... | |
| 300b lovers @alexberger Since an SET is a constant current load insofar as the power supply is concerned, it won't make much difference if you use tube or solid state rectification. But you might want to consider what happens when the AC line voltage changes.... | |
| 300b lovers I also bought 4 schottky diodes. What type of rectifier will sound better: a central tapped full wave rectifier or a bridge rectifier? @alexberger You might consider HEXFRED rectifiers. They are ultra fast, ultra soft recovery and so are less p... | |
| 300b lovers The tube Don, myself, and many other manufacturers would like to see go back in production would be a 45. @lynn_olson As best I can make out, Sophia and EML both make a type 45. | |
| What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today? Using Gallium Nitride FETs. Is this the same as GaN? @mjcmt Yes. | |
| Short? @mojo771 There is a bad capacitor in your air conditioning unit. It bypasses the power switch (in this case the thermostat). Because its failed, when the thermostat turns the AC on or off, a voltage spike that is supposed to be snubbed by that cap... | |
| Current production 45-type tubes @lewinskih01Â There is a TJFullmusic 45 that is worth checking out. https://diyhifisupply.com/product/tj-full-music-45-n-mesh-plate-domematched-pair/ | |
| What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today? How do these various GaN amplifiers perform at low volume (ideally, when paired with speakers known for low volume performance, e.g. horns, BBC monitors, etc). I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't work just fine. For starters class D amp... |