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| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers ^^ Troll Warning. | |
| Ssssh, is your tube preamp really that quiet? FWIW the Ref 3 is a line stage. This thread is about phono sections. | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers Or ... are you saying the relationship between an amp's output impedance and an ESL's varying impedance plot is simply not a relevant consideration to the ESL's sonic output because of some unique or different electrical characteristic peculiar to... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers So my sense is to consider the full impedance curve, not just a static number. Maybe that is where "all other matters" are not equal. That is certainly part of it! There is a reason some speakers are considered 'difficult loads' and that is never ... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers BTW, as I read it; George didn't call you stupid, he called one of your suggestions stupid, and that was after you called him a "troll", which was after he posted a link where he recommend your product. This line of posting is somewhat out of char... | |
| Need an audio brainiac...Stumped... If it were me I would look at the filter caps on the plate supply for the power tubes, even though this otherwise seems to be solved. Motorboating is a classic problem of defective/inadequate power supply filtration. My guess is the amp is right o... | |
| Ssssh, is your tube preamp really that quiet? Hello Charles, the same thing happened to me although it was a different solid state preamp that I started with. We can get such good gain numbers with the use of stepup transformers that at normal listening levels, you can't hear the phono noise ... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers ^^ OK. Its my contention that reducing distortion in the reproduction chain leads to better fidelity/better sound, especially if the types of distortion we are reducing are the types to which the ear is particularly sensitive.In this regard I favo... | |
| Ssssh, is your tube preamp really that quiet? Yes, Charles1dad, you and I are of the same opinion in that regard. | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers Unsound, I don't see the comments you found doing anything but supporting my position, and also this:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.phpThe bit about Jim Theil using drivers in parallel to get more current out of... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Syntax, that strength of the Phantom is one shared by the Triplanar. It really sounds to me that you had either incorrect setup or simply a poor match between arm and cartridge. You are correct that all cartridges put energy into the arm- this is ... | |
| Ssssh, is your tube preamp really that quiet? Phd, all active circuitry makes noise. Transformers are passive devices and don't make noise, but there is a price paid for their use as well. IOW there is no free lunch. IOW there is no curse :)I see the words 'dead silent' used a lot. I know tha... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers Bruce, I am a moderator on another site that is unrelated to audio. In that regard they put me through some training so that I could spot posts that went beyond the pale. I don't see Unsound doing that- he attacks the argument, not the person (whi... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers on this very forum speaker builders have suggested that with a lower impedance they can more easily achieve deeper bass response (extended frequency response), a more linear impedance (improve linearity of frequency response)and as you've said a l... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers Tube amplifier power has always been more expensive (the tubes themselves cost more, the filament circuit to light them up costs something, so does the output transformer). It was the reduced cost of transistors that got the industry going in that... |