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| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? Why is solid core wire illegal in a power cord? @immatthewj They can be a significant fire or shock hazard for the reasons @61falcon and others laid out. | |
| Are EL34 based amps more musical than KT series based ? Or it's purely a matter of design? The EL34 tube is sweeter and gentler with the detail than many KT tubes. Most KT tubes sound hifi- ish. I’ve found the EL34 to have better resolution also over the KT tubes. @lowtubes In this statement the thing you are not taking into account... | |
| Which is best, using balanced or non-balanced connection? Your challenge will be to find a decent turntable with balanced outputs @audiojacks Since the phono cartridge is a balanced source, all you have to do is replace the tonearm interconnect cable. If the arm has a 5-pin plug this is quite easy, if... | |
| 300b lovers I have mixed feelings about cathode follower drive: the output impedance of the CF is low (probably 100 ohms or so), but the peak current available is no different than anode drive. Considering the load is dominated by the Miller capacitance of t... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp The most dangerous of all are DC-coupled preamps and power amps. If the DC servo system in a preamp fails, the failure can propagate all the way to the loudspeaker. I saw this happen when I was visiting the home of a reviewer. @lynn_olson The h... | |
| Send in the Clowns @laoman Daniel von Recklinghausen, the head engineer of HH Scott (a US manufacturer of tube amplifiers in the 1950s and 60s) once said all you need to know: If it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad; if it measures bad and sounds good, you've... | |
| a rant See, now tube amplifiers are all the rage again - it was class d about 3 years ago - it was solid state about 6 months ago - whenever i have tubes - i want solid state, whenever i have solid state - then i want tubes - then ill try class d in the... | |
| Why do tube amps often subjectively sound more powerful than SS ? It's not really about loudness, it just feels more powerful at the same volume. @inna, Mapman has it right. The reason the tube amps sound like they have more power is because of how they make distortion when approaching full power. Unless its ... | |
| Maybe critical listening skills are bad? And how much does precise imaging really do for my enjoyment by the way? @erik_squires A speaker that can't do precise imaging is having problems that cause that. They may affect the enjoyment of the speaker in other ways that may not be immedi... | |
| Audible illusions need Balanced output @hiend2 The suggestion above is spot on. Jensen transformers makes transformers for exactly this sort of thing. | |
| Best MC step up transformer @shmelev_dm Whatever transformer you get, keep in mind that loading it correctly will be the key to getting it to sound/perform correctly. This is why the spec sheet as @syntax points out is so important. Jensen Transformers has a pdf file that s... | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? Very few audiophile cables made today use stranded wire. @jea48 Just so you know, solid core wire for a power cord is illegal and for a good reason! On that account, I'm pretty sure your statement above isn't correct. | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @mitch2 Yes! You also want good solid connections at either end so they don’t heat; heat means a Voltage loss. ***************** If you want an inexpensive means of building a power cord, use the kind of AC power cord used by an electric dryer o... | |
| Amp suggestion for Merlin TSM speakers @troutbum If you're on a budget, you might want to look into something like a refurbished or new Dynaco ST70. You can easily find one for well within your price range and its a very competent amplifier in its stock form. If you get a used one ma... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? @dwette +1 Thanks! |