atmasphere
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| Vintage Crown D 150A II Amp -- How good was it? Its not the transformer. Either bad filter capacitors in the power supply or a channel may have a damaged transistor. | |
| Tube amp down, need guidance from the experienced I would just change the power tube and see if it works.If so, then I would investigate perhaps replacing power tubes if they are getting weak. Arc-over failure is a common failure mode of weak power tubes.If the amp does *not* work I would get the... | |
| Pre-amps with seperate power supplies ..... Rrog, I appreciate that- but the reason we went to IECs in the mid-80s was because we already knew at that time that the power cords made a difference. At that time we didn't know if anyone overseas would even want our amps... It does seem to me t... | |
| Any rock fans out there? Thanks Viridian. To this day I am always amazed that those guys let me play with them. BTW we have 2LPs out and will be recording the 3rd shortly. | |
| Any rock fans out there? Does playing in a rock band count?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpCKtWx-TcEIt was 110 degrees in that space when we played this show... | |
| Stainless Steel Binding posts on speakers? Good- a different metal for the nut prevents galling of the threads. | |
| Class A Watts Lowrider57, the way the two types of amplifier technologies distort is somewhat different. With tube amps you might get a bit more of the lower orders (so you would get a richer, fatter sound, that could border on muddy, as those are all terms aud... | |
| tube amp goes with coincident total victory ii ?? The actual efficiency seems to be in the low to mid-90s depending on the model. So you do want some power, unless you have a very small room. I find that with most of the speakers 60 watts is adequate, but its nice to put more power on the larger ... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Normally we are accustom our ears are accustom to what we prefered more than what is right. Of course some of you already know what is right or wrong but some of us are not aware of that subject and what I'm saying is for the ones that are not awa... | |
| Stainless Steel Binding posts on speakers? One potential problem with Stainless is the galling effects of the nut on the speaker post- over time they may tend to lock up on the threads if the post and the nut are the same material.Stainless cannot be soldered so it may well be that the act... | |
| Class A Watts If an amp is running some bias current so that the output transistors are always on but the bias current is (very) low then essentially the amp is biased into class-A. I think that they call these power amps 'sliding class-A power amps' meaning th... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Raul, I have Vangelis' 1492 on LP; it absolutely **smokes** the CD version, better bass, more detail, smoother high end, greater extension, obviously more transparent (less distortion). Its does not seem to matter what digital system used, the res... | |
| Stainless Steel Binding posts on speakers? Traditionally high end manufacturers tend to use the best conductors they can for speakers and amplifiers. Stainless is nowhere near the best conductor. If not copper, a better idea would be brass...Mechans is correct about copper. If properly han... | |
| Class A Watts Going class A is a method of reducing distortion. In a high end amplifier that is supposed to sound like music, this can really help in a lot of cases.Class A is not the defining criteria though. There are all kinds of design considerations that a... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? I see. Raul, in a nutshell you are making it sound like everyone is nuts (misinformed, whatever) except you. |