atmasphere
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| Bent Audio Autoformer vs Tube Pre I agree completely.I think it would be interesting if we had more interaction from more manufacturers. | |
| Does vinyl have a sound? Mechans, I was careful how I made my comment. I said it need not be expensive if the arm can make it track correctly.What this means is you can get a Grado Gold to beat the best digital out there if the arm gets it to track right. What often amaz... | |
| Bent Audio Autoformer vs Tube Pre You will notice that I am careful not to name names unless somebody calls me out. Its really that simple.But at the same time, the simple fact is that direct-coupling can perform better than a coupling cap or a transformer. This is not something t... | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. Borg7x9, unless you are in a small room listen to what Bvdiman is saying, or you could be making an expensive mistake. SETs have certain properties. One is that they essentially make no distortion at low power levels. This is unusual- most amps ha... | |
| Bent Audio Autoformer vs Tube Pre I still prefer the balanced tube preamp I'm using, which is more transparent with greater bandwidth (top and bottom) than the Bent, although the Bent is IMO excellent. My preamp has a direct-coupled vacuum-tube balanced output and can drive 100 fo... | |
| Does vinyl have a sound? A lot of information and misinformation in the answers. Let's see if we can sort it out.First, the misinformation. Yes, all formats have some artifact but artifact of LP is not 'plastic' by any means. It has greater dynamic range of the best digit... | |
| Magico V3 with tubed amplification, will it work ? The problem you are dealing with is that the speaker is inefficient. They rate the 'sensitivity' at 89 db, which is at best moderate, but when you do the math (its a 4 ohm load, sensitivity is 2.83 volts into 4 ohms) what you see is the efficiency... | |
| Quad 57' system upgrade suggestions requested I have to disagree with RW here. Quads in general like an amplifier that can make the high voltages needed to play bass. That can only come from a tube amp. The other problem is you don't want the amp to be bright- which will happen if the amp can... | |
| Best Tube Amp/Preamp combination with Quad 2805s Hi Phillip, If the amp can double power as the load is cut in half, then it is Voltage Paradigm. That is because the voltage stays constant regardless of the load.The Ampzilla is an example of that.The big variation of impedance in ESLs means that... | |
| $18k Tube preamp for large scale symphonies please Phillip, What you are talking about here is low IM (InterModulation) distortion in the preamp.Its one thing to have low noise, that is the noise floor with no signal. Its another thing to not have the preamp editorialize with the signal. That is t... | |
| how much of a difference should equipment make? A lot depends on the equipment that was compared. If of similar design, its reasonable to expect that the differences will be slight. This is why many transistor amps sound the same. | |
| Current optimized or voltage optimized speakers? Phase angle has nothing to do with whether the speaker is Voltage or Power Paradigm.I am always amused by the idea that 'this speaker is hard to drive so get a transistor amp that can double down.' The speaker got the reputation of being 'hard to ... | |
| balanced output VPI There is another way to do it as well.Since your box has a ground post is why you can do this. The signal is actually balanced all the way to the box. All that happens in the box is that the RCAs are connected. The RCAs are insulated from ground. ... | |
| interconnnect for tri-planer arm? Jfrech, yes, 'supple' = 'better' :)As far as whether your wire is that version, I don't know, but I do know that this is something fairly new for them.The new 12" version of the Triplanar will be at THE Show in January. | |
| Big, big room -- which 10-20k speakers? Ngjockey, I'm pretty sure you can get into a set of Classic Audio T3s, without the field coil drivers, for under 20K/pr. I thought they were about $16K. |