atmasphere
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| Long cables from turntable or phono stage Any SUT is capable of receiving the signal in balanced domain, so you can run balanced from the cartridge if you have an SUT, regardless of the phono section. There are indeed balanced phono cables available too. You know that funny ground wire on... | |
| Can Digital beat our Analog installations? Seems to me its been the Elgar, which was accompanied by some sort of upsampler unit. For a long time this was one of the better setups I had heard, until hearing the Stahltek.The Stahltek is the first unit where I was not thinking about analog/di... | |
| Long cables from turntable or phono stage Thanks Doug, missed that in my fanaticism. In that case the capacitance of the cable is playing a big role in the loading of the cartridge. If it were me I would measure the capacitance of the cable, subtract the capacitive value of my one-meter c... | |
| impedance matching and interconnect capacitance That should be OK. FWIW you would do a lot better running balanced as opposed to single ended for lengths like this- you will get far less coloration from the cable. | |
| Long cables from turntable or phono stage OK- I am going to be the lone voice here. Most LOMC cartridge don't make much voltage but they do make a surprising amount of current, otherwise you could not load them at 50 or 100 ohms and get away with it.So I am asking here that you all think ... | |
| Can Digital beat our Analog installations? Grannyring, ticks and pops can be an artifact of the preamp where it exacerbates a tick or a pop that may have otherwise been inaudible.I have seen LP surfaces that are as quiet as digital (IOW the electronics was the noise floor, not the surface ... | |
| Entreq ground conditioners - what's the theory? I also think Alan has figured out a rather extreme method for manipulating Ohm's Law Ohm's Law is immutable and cannot be 'manipulated'. This may be a poor choice of words but in the context it did not appear so. Ohm's Law is the foundation princi... | |
| What speakers work best with electronic music? Any good speaker will be good for electronic music. Speakers don't care what music goes through them; only people care about that. But one thing about music- sometimes there is bass. I'm more convinced if the speaker makes good, deep and uncolored... | |
| Source XLR to Balanced Preamp will increase gain? Milpai, the adaptor will not cause the circuit to be balanced. It simply allows you to hook things up.Differential is where the circuit has an output based on the difference between two inputs, inverting and non-inverting.'Floating' is where the o... | |
| Fourier Panthare opinions That amp uses 6C33s, but if I recall right runs them at a fairly high voltage too. I would try no more than 150ma per tube section. To do that I would start at 100 ma; the tubes will heat up over time. After an hour they can be considered to be at... | |
| For 35 years, I'm an Audiophile wanna be Why is the amp dead? Bad filter caps? As long as the transformers are still good it can be serviced out.However amplifier design has advanced since then and IMO/IME there are better amps for the task. The other thing you should be aware of is the ... | |
| Preamp Noise with High-Efficiency Speakers After all it will be the most transparent/dynamic way of being true to the sound of the source there is going direct, as it is also a prefect match as well.This is only true in certain situations can cannot be regarded as universal. In this case w... | |
| Source XLR to Balanced Preamp will increase gain? ^^ No. It depends on how the output of the CDP is set up.If balanced but not differential, then you will see double the voltage. But if the output is differential and floating (for example, if an output transformer is used in the CDP), it may be s... | |
| Soundlab speakers...how reliable? In January Soundlab introduced a new backpanel which not only made the speaker a lot easier to drive but also has it sounding better, regardless of the amplifier used. | |
| Entreq ground conditioners - what's the theory? You can sort out easily enough if the equipment is properly grounded by using a DVM. Connect one lead to the chassis and one to the center pin of the IEC connection or power cord. You should measure a short.Then connect to the ground of the input ... |