atmasphere
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| Power amp protection and filtering A regenerator circuit does not have infinite power. It is common for them to not be very happy with tube amps of higher power. This seems to be because they don't like heavy loads that have a lot of constant current, and your ARC has a substantial... | |
| Identify this hum, please Its not the amps if the volume control makes a difference. Does it hum if the volume is all the way down? | |
| What tube pre amp match up with a solid state amp Wolf, I bet your preamp is balanced. But like a lot of modern studio gear, the outputs are probably set up so that the non-inverting occurs between pin 2 and pin 1 (ground) while the inverting output occurs between pin 3 and pin 1.How it *should* ... | |
| What tube pre amp match up with a solid state amp Wolf, I don't think so- I think it has more to do with how the cable is driven.Unfortunately there is not a lot of information on the Kavent, but likely what is happening (as this is very common) is that the preamp puts signal current on the groun... | |
| Listening fatigue Harri009 makes a very good point! | |
| What tube pre amp match up with a solid state amp Tonywinsc, your thinking is correct. Single ended cables and preamps have no termination standard and tend to be high impedance. Under these circumstances the cable cannot be very long and how it is built has a huge effect on its sound.Wolf_garcia... | |
| Einstein The Tube vs Audio Reaserch REF5 It is true that with many transistor and push-pull tube amps, if they don't make enough power, their distortion is actually *higher*. With higher power amps that point is often between 5 and 10 watts. A good reason to go balanced is the advantage ... | |
| What tube pre amp match up with a solid state amp Rrog, you have just described a common myth. What if a preamp has only 3 gain stages from LOMC input to the main output? Is that less signal circuitry or more?If the preamp is fully differential, one advantage is that there is less noise (up to 6d... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? I would definitely look for _________________ products. | |
| D-Sonic peak current output compared to other Simon, Are you saying that your amplifier can produce peaks of 65Amps? Or are you saying that when shorted, your power supply can produce a peak of 65Amps for half a second?Both are impressive specs, however the former is not credible. It suggests... | |
| What tube pre amp match up with a solid state amp A good reason to go balanced is the advantage of being able to run really long interconnects, so you can place the amps close to the speakers and avoid sonic degradation on account of the speaker cables.The balanced line system was created to get ... | |
| What's a properly lit 6SN7 tube look like? Some 6SN7s are properly lit when you can only see something from the top. A lot depends on the particular brand and vintage! | |
| Easy biasing Tube amps Atma-Sphere is part auto-bias and part manual. IOW the bias is automatic but you still use the onboard meter to set the DC Offset (there is a single DC Offset control because the output of the Atma-Sphere amps is direct-coupled). Drift is low, so ... | |
| Listening fatigue Another thing that is well-known for causing listener fatigue is odd-ordered harmonics in trace amounts, something that is common to most transistor gear.This will get more pronounced as volume is increased.The reason is that the ear uses odd orde... | |
| 45 Type Push/Pull Phil, if you can't see it on the scope, that does not always mean it does not exist. But it does mean that its pretty slight- if you have a really high bandwidth scope (200MHz and higher) that stuff usually shows up pretty well if its there.Howeve... |