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| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar I found the Talea to be a disappointment compared to the Triplanar, after everything I had heard and read about it. In particular the Triplanar is better in the bass- so far, the best I have heard. I use recordings I have recorded myself for refer... | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. I have found that is true as well. If for example if that 50KHz step was really employed (and if I understand correctly, meaning that it goes to flat response at 50Khz), the ear will interpret the resulting phase shift in the audio band as brightn... | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. I don't know how you would get bandwidth that high given that the RIAA curve is rolling off the circuit at 6db per octave, so he must have been referring to the bandwidth of the gain stages rather than the overall bandwidth of the entire phono cir... | |
| Atmas-phere MP-3 MKIII --- opinions? You can buy any Atma-Sphere preamp as a line stage and add the phono section later. In the MP-3, the phono costs $800 to add after the fact. Our UV-1 has gotten some nice comments from customers comparing it to phono-only sections that cost severa... | |
| Atmas-phere MP-3 MKIII --- opinions? Single-ended inputs and outputs are optionally available. You don't have to use the balanced connections but its a good idea- it sounds better. | |
| amp or preamp to extend upper end The MP-3 and MP-1 have direct-coupled outputs which allows them a lot of transparency and bandwidth. Detail is not a thing they are lacking. I find solid state to be bright but lacking detail by comparison. | |
| Which phono preamps among these three? I was always asking this question why Atmasphere doesn't have any stand alone phono preamp??!! I like very much so their products and Mp-1 is in my list for next line stage!It looks like we will finally be producing a phono stage for one of our la... | |
| Which phono preamps among these three? Any particular reason why you are limiting yourself to the units mentioned? | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. ^^ The cartridge itself provides the excitation and it does not have to do so at its rated output by any means (that is the nature of resonance- it does not take a lot of excitation to get it going). Harmonics of signals on the LP or noise in the ... | |
| Why so few balanced phono inputs? If you have hum in the phono its because its not wired correctly or the interconnect is not built correctly. We built the world's first balanced line phono preamps; whenever we ran into a hum problem it was because of either a wring error or a cab... | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Acoustat actually made a powered direct-drive ESL. They had to integrate the amp into the speaker on account of the rather dangerous high voltages involved. This will be the case with any direct-drive installation. Of course, any ESL can be direct... | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. But I think for many audiophiles using MC cartridges it is difficult to get their head wrapped around not being able to "load" the cartridge-I think this is perceived very negatively. Hence this type of phono preamp is probably a harder sell in th... | |
| Help with a system for a guy into electronic music I'm into more downtempo stuff myself- Global Communications, Infinity Project, Symbiosis, Yello (although a lot of their stuff is quite danceable), Future Sound of London... | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Clio09, you should know by now that getting rid of the transformer gets you greater transparency :)However direct-driving ESLs has its own set of problems- chief amongst them is how the amplifier can be safely connected to the speaker such that it... | |
| amp or preamp to extend upper end Just a FWIW: brightness and detail are not the same thing, but quite often when an amplifier is bright, it is often perceived as more detailed. |