atmasphere
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| A dilemma: Modern sound, Musical Bliss or both? ^^ true that. I stopped doing any serious auditions upon hearing the Classic Audio Loudspeaker T-3. Easy to drive, full range, detail of ESLs, what's not to like? Plus 60 watts is enough to shake my whole house. | |
| the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ? ^^ none of which has anything to do with my prior comment. Look at the quote I made- the comment was addressed to that. | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Just me, but IMO they sound bright. | |
| Why does your turntable sound the way it does. The plinth is pretty important! One thing is for sure- the coupling between the platter and the cartridge mounting must not have any slop, nor can there be any difference in motion (for example, vibration in the plinth) that otherwise will allow f... | |
| Need help solving a hum problem Andy, don't listen to Peter with regards to the AC adaptors. If you have to resort to that, the equipment needs to be fixed as running it that way can be dangerous. | |
| Need helps with hums, radio station in phono He said to only earth ground one piece of your audio equipment. If your equipment has a 3-prong power cord, get a 3-prong to 2-prong adapter. He said this helps to get rid of more ground hum.If any of this ever makes a difference there is either a... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. Some of the Sotas had a vacuum system that kept the LP flat. The side that you weren't playing could get damaged by such use. That may have been corrected on later 'tables. | |
| A dilemma: Modern sound, Musical Bliss or both? The Indra should not be used with tubes, unlike the Eidelon. Its my opinion that you can get better sound with tubes, so I see this as a weakness in the Indra and also the Isis.But if you are using transistors maybe you will like this speaker just... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Audiozen, I can guarantee that the noise floor is not going to define the sound quality of any preamp, once it has gained acceptable levels. But excessive low noise floors do make me suspicious. A more important quality might be how the equipment ... | |
| the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ? The input stage uses a 12AX7 configured as a long-tail pair phase splitter using a large tail resistor to ensure constant current source operation.:) He must be new to differential operation. You can't do that effectively with a resistor like that... | |
| Rabco SL-8E Vs Top Quality Pivoted Tonearms ^^ Thanks for that!I used a simple opamp (FET input) to solve the servo issues. As long as the contacts made a connection of less than 1 Meg ohm, it worked fine. The reduced current through the contacts got rid of contact noise as well. Later I so... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Still not convinced its the world's best- in shoot outs, people have preferred our preamp hands down, no comparison!If it was the best that would not be happening, right? | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. If you look at an LP groove you see that vertical and horizontal motion are both present. Favoring one over the other sounds tricky to me at best. These days most LPs have variable groove spacing so the arm/cartridge combo has to be ready to move ... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. Ketchup, I have heard that before. And you are right, that's a helpful feature and not found in the majority of air bearing arms.What it does is react to minor perturbations (and is thus an acknowledgment of the issue), but if you think about it, ... | |
| Acceptable level of hum at max volume? If you have regulated filament supplies, even with a cathode/filament short in a tube there is no hum.One thing have have found though is a lot of tube equipment manufacturers don't know how to ground their gear. I can name a few famous ones off t... |