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| What makes a good piece of audio gear ? With regards to the original post, new designs in amps are quite possible. Examples: Atma-Sphere (first fully balanced zero feedback OTLs), Berning (first zero hysteresis air-core transformer coupled amplifier, can be single-ended or fully balance... | |
| Question About Tube Dampers Manufacturers of amps and preamps *do* use them. ARC has a proprietory damper for example. | |
| I'd probably lose this bet.... :) I'll bet you do.Sounds like there is an attempt with the geometry to control CI with that cable. | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Learsfool, when you are not talking about orchestra musicians, the idea of long scale and short scale basses is well-known. A short-scale bass (electric, BTW) will have a neck about the same length as a guitar. A long-scale bass will have a longer... | |
| Question About Tube Dampers If the dampers impair the tube's ability to get rid of heat then you can expect a shortened service life out of the tube. But usually they are a good thing sonically.I have heard people say that there is a problem with loss of air due to the tubes... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? I listen to all sorts of music and even play electronic keyboards in my band. 'Tight' to me in its simplest definition is an artificial coloration imparted by overdamped speakers. You get a fast attack, but not so much body behind the initial thum... | |
| Screw-down reflex clamps vs. record weights I've had excellent results with the Basis clamp. However the patter design on any 'table is crucial for optimal results. Plus the LP itself plays a role. Sometimes you are better off using an O-ring on the spindle to help dish the LP, other times ... | |
| Importance of line stage pre--Who Knew? With tubes, the sins are mainly of omission meaning that they generally roll treble, round fast transients, and muddle things a bit in even the best designs. This makes the sound more "musical" at the expense of removing musical information, nuanc... | |
| I'd probably lose this bet.... It might be interesting to measure the Characteristic Impedances of those cables and see how that interacts with the impedance of your speakers in the vocal range. | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Dracule1, I have played string bass since 7th grade. 'Tight' is one thing is isn't. Energetic- yes, detail- sure- its a real instrument. But you won't ever find one sounding 'tight'. We may have a semantic problem here; for me 'tight' is punch but... | |
| I'd probably lose this bet.... Kijanki, yes, a long cable like that can thus be seen by the speaker as a higher output impedance of the amplifier resulting in a lowered damping factor. As you point out, this likely has more effect at high frequencies, but if we are talking abou... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? The amp/speaker match is why I dropped this link earlier:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.phpMapman, if you have speakers that your class D amps are really happy with, there is the chance that those speakers may n... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? You might say that the use of global negative feedback causes the amplifier to violate one of the fundamental rules of human hearing/perception: how we determine how loud a sound is. We do that through analyzing the odd ordered harmonics rather th... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Hughp3, you are correct. But many modern drivers can have a lot more excursion than the head of many kick drums, depending on how that drum is tuned. I have dual 15" woofers in my speakers, which helps a lot. If I really crank the system, it will ... | |
| Soundlab Speakers - Budget Amp Suggestions I think you will find that the simpler you can make your system, the better chance you have of getting it to sound right.Good Luck! |