atmasphere
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| Screech when turning tube pre on If you can only hear the hissing with your ear to the driver of the speaker there are no worries.With almost any preamp its a good idea to turn the preamp on first and wait for it to settle out before turning the amp on. | |
| Best amplifier for klipsch heresy 3 speakers. Because of the high efficiency drivers used in this speaker, the back EMF is pretty high. This means it will exhibit some harsh behaviors if you use an amplifier that has lots of feedback. This rules out 99 44/100ths percent of all transistor amps... | |
| Amp Shutting Down, need help All the lengthy power cord is doing is dropping the AC voltage a little over its length. But I had understood that you had checked the AC voltage and it was OK. If the voltage was high then I could see the power cord helping out. That is why I sug... | |
| Best amplifier for klipsch heresy 3 speakers. The Heresy has always been very tube friendly and easy to drive. I used to use them with 60-watt amps as a PA for a band many years ago. So you don't need a lot of power to get satisfying volumes. | |
| Amp Shutting Down, need help No. I mean the signal input of the amp. | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? Best complement I got was someone asking "Is that someone in the other room? You didn't tell us this would be a jam session!" | |
| Need at least 900wpc in 4ohm Ddd1, 500 watts is by no means the magical number. In fact the common 'wisdom' in this regard is 60 watts. That is to say, most amplifier topologies go downhill if the topology is built to be able to produce more than 60 watts or so. Now most of y... | |
| Preamps waste of money? I'm not sure one can ever determine if his preamp is "neutral" unless he was at the recording session and all his other components in the chain are neutral.Bingo! I made a recording in 1986 that went to LP. It has proven invaluable to me over the ... | |
| Amp Shutting Down, need help Sailcappy, what happens if you short the input of the amp? Does it still do it? | |
| Does OTL pre-amplifier exist? The Sonic Frontiers preamps have cap-coupled outputs to my knowledge.The only tube preamps with direct coupled outputs are the Atma-Sphere (line stage or with phono) and the Messenger, which is single-ended. | |
| Tonearm mounting differences Graham vs.Tri-Planar. Quite a bit costlier than Tri-P however.The Triplanar has considerably harder bearings (hardest made anywhere in the world) and are thus the most durable; also having the least friction. However its not a $2K-$3K contender unless you find one used... | |
| Need at least 900wpc in 4ohm The Snell AIII was a good speaker in its day. It was about the only thing out there that competed with the Fulton Premiere systems. But that was 1984. Snell made a speaker call the B that I found preferable to the AIII- easier to drive and more de... | |
| Tube Pre/Monoblock Recommendation Madfloyd, I was sorry to hear that he passed away suddenly a few months back. I always appreciated his level headed comments. | |
| Does OTL pre-amplifier exist? Yu11375, thanks for the comment on the S-30.Onhwy61 is correct- most preamps have no output transformer. But with preamps the usual limitation at the output of the preamp is often the coupling cap, rather than an output transformer. Removing this ... | |
| Preamps waste of money? The residual thinness you think you hear from S.S. preamps is the lack of coloration you get with all tube components. The thinnest, most sterile systems I've heard had no preamp.Tmsorosk, this statement is incorrect. Tube preamps can be quite unc... |