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| Amp design logic Wolf_garcia, 'capable', true enough. But if they do is another matter. We build a guitar amp for a company here in town. They got in some parts from China for testing. One of the parts was a filter capacitor for the power supply, rated 47uf at 450... | |
| How long daes it take your gear to warm up? The first 15 minutes or so sounds somewhat stilted, then my amps and preamp goes through a nice change and starts sounding like music. By the first hour there are no worries :)I leave it off when not in use. The stereo gets turned on first thing w... | |
| Could use your advice re: tube gear River251, I hope you understand that even if it appears that you have reformed the old filter caps in your amps that there is no way that they are performing to spec as they could if you had new filter caps! | |
| Amp design logic River251, here are some other things I did not see above.A $1000 amp is likely mass-produced where is $50,000 likely is not. So any vendor offers price breaks on parts- the more you buy the cheaper they are. If you have an assembly line, which is ... | |
| Empire 498 The reason we stay away from the suspension models is that it is very difficult to do anything about the arm. The platter/motor setup is great on all the machines, but IMO the arms always leave a bit to be desired (although the later arms were a l... | |
| Hum, buzz, snap, crackle and pop? Tubes are inherently more noisy than semiconductor/ transistor amps, but some feel the benefits of the warm, natural sound quality outweigh those negatives.'Hum, buzz, snap, crackle and pop' were complaints in the original post- these are not inhe... | |
| Where Have All the 2A3 Amps Gone We are working on a push-pull 2A3. Expected power is 16 watts. | |
| Could use your advice re: tube gear Yes, you can't store **any** amplifier for years (long enough for surrounds to perish) and expect it to sound right after that. The filter caps die if they don't have voltage applied to them occasionally.If you want tubes to sound right- play bass... | |
| Low Amplifier Loads / frequency range It depends on the speaker design. see:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.phpIf you are designing for tubes, keep the load easy (or 16 ohms) and you will do very well with no need to biamplify.Its a huge myth that yo... | |
| Would Atmasphere M1 work with ML Ascent i speakers I've not tried the combo and have not heard from anyone who has. However, looking at the specs you **may** have to use a set of ZEROs (http://www.zeroimpedance.com)to make it work as Martin Logans tend to have very low impedances at high frequenci... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State Matching amps and speakers is important!Take a look at this link:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.phpThe B&W 802 is designed to work on an amplifier that can double its power when the load is cut in half. Spec... | |
| Oil For Nottingham Spacedeck? Generally with any turntable platter bearing(s) you can use a few drops of Dextron automatic transmission fluid with no worries! | |
| Empire 498 We can service a lot of that stuff- we even got the correct motor mounts re-manufactured. | |
| Lazarus cascade classic and Mark III amp's The Lazurus was based on the 'Last PAS' construction article published in what was back then called Audio Amateur in the late 1970s or early 1980s.The Mark 3 (I assume Dynaco) you can find by Googling images of the schematic. | |
| Could use your advice re: tube gear If your amps were in storage, its likely they are not working up to snuff. The Marantz was a nice amp but unless its been rebuilt/serviced recently I would not expect it to sound right- in fact I would be nervous about plugging it into the wall!A ... |