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| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? @emergingsoul Tubes are better for multiple reasons and yet the world and the trade prefers solid state. IMO, for audio this used to be true. Not because of anything other than the distortion tubes made was innocuous to the human ear so they ... | |
| Tube Preamp, uses 6sn7/6sl7. With or Without Phono; With or Without Remote Volume, Did not know that. Is it now standard on new units? Or optional? @lewm Optional on both, no charge on the MP-3. | |
| Amp for LS 3/5a Falcon Gold Badge One of my employees had the original Rogers speaker- we found that our smallest amplifier, the S-30, was a great match due to the 15 Ohm impedance. | |
| 300b lovers if the input of the next component is balanced and not referenced to ground (e.g. transformer coupled), I don't understand why it is necessary to decouple the output in the source component from any ground reference to achieve the full benefits o... | |
| Best Tube Amp for High Sensitivity Speakers: 45, PX25, or 300B? Aavik Class D integrated are revelatory as well. Those who gave them a listen had their prejudice about Class D completely shattered. Yes, a lot of class D amplifiers in the last 20 years were pretty effective at giving class D a bad name. The... | |
| 300b lovers The idea of introducing a tube-driven class A stage to achieve "better cable drive, partly signal conditioning, scraping off RFI and noise induced in the cables" is appealing. How would you recommend I learn about this? @lewinskih01 You might w... | |
| Best Tube Amp for High Sensitivity Speakers: 45, PX25, or 300B? @gregjacob Something you want to consider before moving ahead blindly with an SET purchase is the difference between sensitivity and efficiency. Sensitivity is a voltage measurement (2.83V @ 1 meter); efficiency is a power measurement (1 Watt @ 1 ... | |
| What is the most powerful SET tube amplifier? just need to know where built and brand for my own record. @marakanetz The most powerful SET is likely also to be the one with the least bandwidth. This is because bandwidth is really challenging for the output transformer of an SET- effectivel... | |
| Would a real butcher block be going to far? Would a real butcher block be going to far? @bgpoppab Its not going far enough. If its solid wood, it will resonate, although due to the density it will take a bit more energy. It would work better if bonded to a dissimilar material such as plate... | |
| 300b lovers The magazine conventional wisdom would tell you that clarity and beauty is "euphonic coloration". That’s complete horse****. Euphonic colorations can’t add detail, resolution, more depth, and more in-the-room presence ... colorations can twiddle ... | |
| Benz Micro Glider Loading I don’t want to appear ignorant but I’m not sure how the info you provided helps me in deciding what phono pre I should look for other than listening of course which really isn't an option when buying used. One with a 1k loading option or not? ... | |
| Tube Preamp, uses 6sn7/6sl7. With or Without Phono; With or Without Remote Volume, @lewm Just so you know both the Atma-Sphere MP-1 and MP-3 have remote volume available. | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113, @jasonbourne71 makes a point about passive volume controls. They interact with the output impedance of your sources, in this case the DAC and your phono stage, both of which have to drive your amplifier thru the passive control, which ca... | |
| Benz Micro Glider Loading @nicktheknife When dealing with a cartridge of this type the loading is for the benefit of the preamp, not the cartridge! What is going on is the inductance of the cartridge is in parallel with the capacitance of the tonearm cable. Whenever induc... | |
| Should I steer clear of class D amps Class D amps need a tube preamp or a solid state Class A input stage that adds 2nd order harmonic distortion to the signal. Linear power supplies can also add 2nd order harmonic distortion. These statements are false. I can imagine some amps (... |