atmasphere
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| Current limit onset definition? Thanks Al. | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Running tones like that is not a good way to tell what's going on- you are not the only one that would find tones like that unpleasant. In fact all the audiophiles I know don't listen to raw tones. If you find a particular recording that seems unp... | |
| Quad ESL-63 and low-powered amps; Sun Audio, Atma The ESL 63 works great with our amps, but usually its with either the M-60 or MA-1. The speaker actually needs some power and you don't do it justice with lower-powered amps. | |
| interesting phenomena in the cutting room Do you have one you want mastered to LP?For some reason I can't do a PM to you via your moniker. | |
| BEST TONEARM FOR HIGH COMPLIANCE MM Al, if I am not mistaken the Magnepan has a construction flaw (a burr) that causes it to slice up the signal wires where they exit the arm tube. Apparently it was the lucky owner that got one that didn't fail- as I understand it eventually all of ... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers For some time now I've suspected that there is some sort of antagonistic relationship between timbre and brightness and, because the timbre issue is one of the most important issues to me and brightness is my least acceptable, I seem always to be ... | |
| Current limit onset definition? No, I don't think so. 90 amps through a 600 watt output section would toast the output devices in a heartbeat. Or less.The 90 amp figure simply has nothing to do with the output section. It has to do with the power supply. | |
| interesting phenomena in the cutting room We master LPs for other labels. Most of our work has been for Nero's Neptune, which is a local label in Minnesota. We've also done a number of independent projects. Most of them have not been what I would call audiophile, for example we mastered a... | |
| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? I get that you don't agree, but you would be wrong, except for that last bit, which I agree 100% because that just happens to be true of most audio systems.Orchestral material has plenty of sharp transients. Tell you what- find your self a copy of... | |
| Current limit onset definition? Ralph (Atmasphere), thanks for your comments also. As a point of information, all of the peak current specs Spectral provides at their site for the recent models as well as for the DMA-180 are described as "peak **output** current" [emphasis added... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers One has to be careful with the ZEROs. Like anything else they can be mis-used. Generally I go for the least amount of multiplication that gets the job done. With ESLs this generally means you are trying to restore lost highs. What is nice about th... | |
| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? Anyone who thinks a speaker that is good a classical can't also be good at metal just has not heard how hard a proper classical LP can be on a system.Speakers and electronics really don't care what the signal is. If they are good at their job they... | |
| Altec A7 What to do The horn can be damped, which has a nice effect on the midrange!There may be beryllium diaphragms available too. The originals are aluminum and have some breakups which make them less detailed and harsher. If so, these are the people to contact:ht... | |
| Current limit onset definition? Clearly the 40A figure has nothing to do with power draw... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers ESLs traditionally are a tricky problem for solid state amps. The reason is that solid state amps are often able to act like a voltage source, which is to say that they can often double power as the load impedance is cut in half.This causes troubl... |