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| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers Csontos, it does not matter if it is live or reproduced, our ears listen for those harmonics (which are always there) regardless. We can't change that!Quite simply, the application of physics to design equipment to honor our human hearing/perceptu... | |
| High value, high efficiency speakers for SET amps This is very interesting, Atmasphere. Is this true for SEP as well? True for a Dynamo 34SE?That was an insightful observation.Thank you!The 20% thing applies to SETs, which typically make about 10% THD at full power. However below about 20% their ... | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers Csontos, thank-you for your reasoned reply. I thought you might like to hear a number: 600, as in 600V/uS, the risetime of the output section of our amps. Tubes don't have to be slow nor dull any leading edge transients.I agree with Mapman- there ... | |
| Rock and roll speakers? That should make them fine for whatever you throw at them as long as you have enough power.I use Classic Audio Loudspeakers, which are 98 db and go from 20Hz to 35KHz. This allows me to run less power. Right now I am running a set of our M-60s and... | |
| High value, high efficiency speakers for SET amps The Classic Audio Loudspeakers have efficiencies that are what you want for a 300b SET (which only makes about 7 watts). The best suited in their line is the Hartsfield reproduction.Sorry to pop some bubbles here:The problem you are up against is ... | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers Csontos, I play in a band and have played sting bass in orchestras since I was in 7th grade. Not that that makes me an expert, but I do attend a lot of concerts. I agree that concerts with amplification are anything but warm.But if I go to an unam... | |
| National Record Store Day is Saturday April 18th RSD-only release: "My Squelchy Life" from 1991. | |
| Rock and roll speakers? ^^ A waste of money- just get one good system and you are set.'Good' does not mean expensive. It means 'good'. The two are not always the same. | |
| Scott 340A Repair help Scott equipment is not particularly challenging. Any technician that can repair tube equipment should be able to replace the filter caps and otherwise service out a Scott so its back in the running. | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers You may find that finding a transistor amplifier that has the warmth associated with real music (and tubes) to be harder than replacing the occasional tube.IOW, if you seek the musicality of tubes, why not just get a tube amp and be done? | |
| McIntosh MR78 tuner repair Replacements will likely have a sticker identifying its brand, pin out and associated values. The originals will have that info stamped into the side of the part. | |
| National Record Store Day is Saturday April 18th Found an older Brian Eno album never on LP before, done as a National Record Store Day special. | |
| Rock and roll speakers? I think the element being not mentioned enough is that rock n roll is usually played loud and is not that sonically nuanced. Much is electric and the drums are simpler and less sophisticated. That's quite a generalization! But the fact of the mat... | |
| Phono amps or stages for high-output cartridges? All of our preamps work fine with high output cartridges.Our UV-1 preamp can be ordered with a phono section for high output cartridges or low output (in which case a stepup transformer is added). I think there is a lot of life left in high output... | |
| McIntosh MR78 tuner repair Be careful if you decide to remove the glass- the lettering on the dial can be fragile.If this really is an older unit get the filter caps replaced! Otherwise your power transformer is at risk and they are not easy to find. |