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Cables for low power amps and Horns? Purist Audio Design would be another. I've used them to very good effect. | |
New Preamp Suggestion If the Classe has balanced inputs, you might want to consider a preamp with balanced outputs. This works better for the amp and the cables involved. | |
Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. The underlying assumption you imply is that high powered solid state has a sound - well that's not true, its going to be speaker dependent.I find the main 'sound' of most transistor amps the is the slight presence of odd-ordered harmonics, which m... | |
Tube pre, SS amp incompatibility, which amp 2 use? Abucktwoeighty, do you have a Digital Volmeter (DVM)? If so you might want to measure the voltage at the output of the Jolida with the volume turned down. If its anything other than 0volts, you have a problem that should be fixed.If the preamp emp... | |
Top ten tube preamps Nice work! Does that do low output moving coil? | |
Looking for a power conditioner/regenerator/filter Jallen, just FWIW but the big spike usually occurs when the power goes out, not when it comes back on. Its the same principle that makes the spark plugs run in a car. | |
Question for technicians *Sparing* use of Deoxit (DN5) will work fine. Keep it away from circuit boards if you can. Its more powerful than the Radio Shack cleaner and tends to have more capacitive effects (although slight) from what I can tell. | |
Empire 498 If you can make it mount up then you are in business :) | |
Early pressings v remastered The trick is usually to get the original LP that is pressed in the same country as it was recorded. Reissues have a tough time raising the bar although that is not to say they can't do it. A lot depends on the condition of the master tape and the ... | |
High Sensitivity Speakers that work best with SS Is this intrinsic to these specific designs, i.e. it is simple not possible to achieve similar signal-to-noise rations when building powerful amps? Or, is this because in these designs the designers pay special attention to this (unlike most desig... | |
Tube pre, SS amp incompatibility, which amp 2 use? Abucktwoeighty There may be other ways to sort this out too. How are your power cords set up? Are they both running off of the same power strip? | |
Digital Or Traditional Preamp? Traditional is my answer. Technology changes and can leave digital preamps behind. So far technology has not left traditional units behind and who knows? maybe someday you will find out what you are missing with LPs or tape. | |
Tube amps and loads. Normally Scott amplifier design was pretty forgiving and no load was required. I would not go with that now. If the controls are clean there are probably no worries, but if there is a problem and your output transformer pays the price, then a load... | |
Empire 498 The newer AR arm from when AR came back about 20 years ago is pretty close, but you have put your finger on why we don't mess with the suspension models. Its tricky to find an arm that works with the geometry. Once you have done that, mounting it ... | |
High Sensitivity Speakers that work best with SS Mapman, I agree, which was part of why I wrote this article:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.phpI used the word 'paradigm' in the article because the industry and designers that are taught a certain way don't alwa... |