atmasphere
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| Preamp Headroom Question Ralph, I'm not sure I understand your comment either, especially the part about "in the latter case the noise should be less than that of the groove." Can you clarify? Did you mean "in the former case"?Also, why would playing an essentially silent... | |
| What ohm to set amp If you run an 8 ohm speaker on the 4 ohm tap there will be no reliability consequences, although it may not sound right (which is a different matter). | |
| Soundstage vs background noise? Tube amps, IME, rarely take a back seat to transistor amps when it comes to soundstage. So I am suspicious that there is something else going on- perhaps related to the noise you are talking about. You might want to test the smaller tubes in the a... | |
| Preamp Headroom Question The rule of thumb with any phono stage is not how much noise there is when you lift the tone arm off the LP, but how much noise there is when the needle is in a good silent groove.In the latter case the noise should be less than that of the groove... | |
| TriPlanar Tips FWIW the Triplanar protractor has not changed at all in the last 5 years. The protractor is not incorrect- it is intentionally built with a slight amount of slop and it is expected that the exact and final position of the arm will be corrected dur... | |
| What amp should I buy to power Martin Logan Esl's? FWIW tube amps can work extremely well with ESLs. The problem you run into sometimes (one that is common with ML ESLs) is that the impedance of the speaker has really been set up to favor transistor amps (i.e. are set to a lower impedance) more th... | |
| Putting together first system... clueless. If you are on a budget and you want tubes, its likely that you will not have a lot of power to spare. For this reason you want a speaker with greater efficiency, and for that reason I feel like a Magnaplanar would be a poor choice. Zus are popular... | |
| increase power amp sensitivity As Heyra has said, its going to be a lot easier to reduce the input to the bass amp than trying to increase the gain for the high frequency amp! | |
| Wish List For Vinyl Pressings So far the only LPs that have more than one entry are the Beatles and Emmy Lou Harris' 'Wrecking Ball'. Is this worth another thread yet?So much music! I am sure there are a lot of great suggestions here. Its my surmise that a Beatles reissue will... | |
| Fisher 500B Questions The 500B is notorious for the volume control not tracking properly and power switch problems. I've replaced many of them! | |
| Wish List For Vinyl Pressings Right- so for this to work we need to get the right LP title :)Should I start another thread or can we vote?? | |
| Preamp Noise with High-Efficiency Speakers This could be caused by a ground loop. A ground loop can exist if your equipment is built without a proper grounding scheme. If you float the ground pin of the amplifier power cord from the wall (using a hardware store ground cheater) and the buzz... | |
| Need Help With Input Sensitivity/Watts FWIW a preamp that can only deliver 0.7 Volts is not much of a preamp! Most preamps will make at least 2 volts (and many make much more than that), so in general if your amps are as sensitive as claimed (FWIW most SETs are less sensitive than that... | |
| Wish List For Vinyl Pressings How about a group buy?If we can get enough people to ante up on a title, we could master it (I run an LP mastering operation) and get it going. Any thoughts?? | |
| Speakers with fullness and weight? If no-one has mentioned Duke's (Audiokinesis) loudspeakers in the context of this thread- they are certainly deserving! |