atmasphere
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| Amplifier Input Impedance Input impedance has nothing to do with gain. You can have a high input impedance on a solid state amp by using FET devices at the input.Large solid state amps with a low input impedance often do have a lot of gain as they are designed for use with... | |
| How to repair or replace a power transformer? It will likely be more expensive to repair a damaged transformer like that than it will be to replace it, even if the new part is custom-built to do the job. It will be handy to get some voltages from the amp that works, and its likely that you ha... | |
| good preamp for dynaco mk3 monoblocks with maggies Could well be. But the 11 had troubles of its own. I think you are better off getting an old Citation 1 and getting it refurbished, or going the route I suggested with updating a PAS-3. Either way you wind up with a better sounding preamp if the w... | |
| the 27 or 05 Neither preamp supports the balanced standard, FWIW... Jmcgrogan2 has got it quite right. | |
| Amplifier Input Impedance Stickman451, you are correct as is Jmcgrogan2. Its easy enough to design a solid state amplifier with a high impedance input (100K); they could even make it switchable if they wanted. Although our preamps are vacuum tube, they can drive even 5K wi... | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand Sarcher30, Good! I've had my Triplanar about 9 years. No problems with it either. I don't think its realistic to compare speakers and tonearms. That's a bit of a stretch. But I agree- in the case of speakers, I much prefer wood products (paper) fo... | |
| good preamp for dynaco mk3 monoblocks with maggies Sbrown, If you are going to refurbish an older ARC preamp, the SP-10 is a better choice. | |
| Quad 63 ESL Rebuild - A Horror Story Does anybody own a calendar? Check the date on the original post. Zombies! | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand I also do not find the sound to vary from day to day, with my Reed tonearms. When rechecking my settings they are not different either. So at least IME stability is a non issue.How about year to year? You may not notice a very minor change from on... | |
| good preamp for dynaco mk3 monoblocks with maggies Zvovchik, since you are thinking of getting vinyl, you really owe it to yourself to get a tube preamp.If you run an outboard phono section you have two problems- one is the audible effect of the additional connections (interconnect cable and the l... | |
| triode versus pentode When you have a setup that allows you to switch between triode and pentode, you should understand that the amplifier is likely optimized for pentode rather than triode.Triodes have a lower output impedance and so will need a lower turns ratio on t... | |
| Contact info of Steve Huntley Johnhaines, if you need the amp repaired that is no worries. We do lots of tube equipment. | |
| Quad 63 ESL Rebuild - A Horror Story Take copious photos so you can show that the panels have not been serviced. | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand ^^ this. | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand The trick here is you want to control resonance in the arm wand, such that it does not talk back or editorialize.Most wood arm wands I have seen do not appear to be treated for resonance issues. Some might argue that they don't need that; they wou... |