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| $18k Tube preamp for large scale symphonies please Philipwu, I have been able to sort out what kind of amp you have. Does it have a balanced input? How long do you need the interconnect cables to reach? Have you considered the effect that preamps have on the cables?FWIW electronics do not care wha... | |
| Starting from Scratch -Please Help Pick 1 out of 3 Thegoodarcher, Atma-Sphere amps don't explode :) Yes, they have a lot of tubes but the tubes are cheap. And if a tube fails it does not damage the speaker. We would not be in business after 36 years if that were the case :)We have seen cases where... | |
| pass labs xa30 to valve amplifier. No, you just pick the right position on the volume control and it works fine. The MP-3 has a custom-built stepped volume control composed of 96 resistors. It sounds as good as a bypass. | |
| Hookup wire for tube amplifier? Kijanki, I don't think you will find 7Ns copper in any wires anytime soon. As soon as its extruded you are down to 99.99%. The wires as seen in the article don't seem to be commonly made.Further, it might be interesting for audiophiles to understa... | |
| ROGERS LS 3/5A MONITOR SPEAKERS They only handle about 35 watts. This is part of the reason that they were 15 ohms as transistor amps have a harder time damagin them, and also tend to sound smoother than if the speaker were 8 ohms.And as others have mentioned, they were really w... | |
| would 50 feet speaker wires be harmful to amp? I think you will find that in running cable lengths that long that you will loose a lot of definition!Things like vocals will be harder to discern; details will be smeared and lost.There is more to speaker cable than just resistance and capacitanc... | |
| Proac response 2 There is a place here in town that has done speaker reconing for at least the last 40 years. You might talk to them- they can do re-foaming easily:http://www.midwestspeaker.com/ | |
| Hookup wire for tube amplifier? The issue is break-in and longevity.Copper seems to take longer to break in than silver does. If handled correctly they both get to the same place.You have to be careful with silver- don't go with silver-plated copper and you have to be careful to... | |
| Preamp to pair with X250.5 Clarrie, either will work fine. Fin1bxn, if I recall correctly the ARC preamps cannot drive an input impedance like the Pass and also play bass right; seems to me that they say in the manual that the amp has to have an input impedance of 30K or more. | |
| Flat impedance curve? Ngjockey, FWIW at Fs the impedance could be much higher than that; 20-40 ohms is not that weird if there is no port. | |
| No Balanced Circuitry Twice the circuitry which is why most manufacturers don't do it.This statement is incorrect. It does not take twice as much circuitry to go differential!Clarrie, the answer to your question is probably yes. If the circuit is not internally balance... | |
| Bargain amps and preamps with XLR connections? FWIW nearly any amp can be set up to not only have XLR connections, but to also process both the inverting and non-inverting connections of the XLR.I am talking in most cases about a very simple modification, but in the past I have found the most ... | |
| Fixing Up Old Thorens Make sure the rear of the arm is high enough too. If it is too low, bass modulation will reduce the tracking pressure, IOW weak bass.Also make sure you have the cartridge connections correct. If one channel is out of phase, you may experience weak... | |
| How big of a difference do amps make? Yes- naturally, real instruments have sounds composed of both even and odd-ordered harmonics :) | |
| How big of a difference do amps make? 'Coloration' usually refers to a tonality. 'Richness' in the midrange is a common coloration caused by the presence of a 2nd harmonic in tube amps.The ear hears harmonic distortion as a tonality. It is also the most sensitive to bird song frequenc... |