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| Best tubed full-function preamp with remote Hanshhh, FWIW the Atma-Sphere preamps can be optionally set up with single-ended inputs and outputs. They are not built that way initially to try to encourage the user to set things up right- balanced cables done right do sound better than single ... | |
| Will a tube setup sound good for all music ? I have yet to see a transistor amp that can play bass as well as a good tube amp. They don't seem to go as deep or have as much impact as tubes. Of course, I am using a speaker that is tube friendly (and has 20Hz bandwidth).I listen to all sorts o... | |
| Will An Attenuator Help Reduce This Hiss? Seems to me that the McCormick has about 30db of gain. This is going to be a bit of a trick.Do you know how much output your source has? Is is enough to drive the amp directly? | |
| a solid state amp that is recessed in the treble Another way to keep odd-ordered harmonics down in a transistor amplifier is to increase the impedance of the load.(This BTW, is why there really is no argument for four-ohm speaker designs, not if the quality of reproduction is your goal- if **sou... | |
| Best tubed full-function preamp with remote If you can find an Atma-Sphere MP-3 used, any of them can be retro-fitted with the remote option if it does not already have it. They are all-tube and fully balanced. | |
| More power for better sound at low volumes? When you operate a high power amplifier at low power levels quite often you have higher levels of distortion. This is because most high power amplifiers are push-pull and with rare exception, most push pull amps (tube or solid state) will have the... | |
| Will An Attenuator Help Reduce This Hiss? Scott, you will need less gain in the amplifier. Most preamps have gain after the volume control and if you have high efficiency speakers this is a common problem. An attenuator is one solution but I think you will find that it degrades the sound ... | |
| Can't adjust tube Preamp balance control How are you driving the Spectron? The Audio Valve is single-ended. | |
| After Quad ESL's? Audiokinesis also makes speakers that should be considered. They are easy to drive and quite musical! as well as very reasonably priced. | |
| has anyone heard the Tannoy Kingdom Royal? Last time I heard them was about 6 years ago. They were driven by a pair of 60-watt tube amps. Very easy to listen to, really, you were thinking about the music, not so much the stereo. | |
| Matching up speakers and amps You should go ahead and do that then. The Spendors have usually been tube-friendly. | |
| a solid state amp that is recessed in the treble The problem has three elements. If you have ever wondered why a tube amp and a transistor amp can have the same bandwidth but the transistor amp sounds bright here's why:Our ears are tuned to listen for the odd ordered harmonics in order to determ... | |
| VDH Colibri XPP. Best Load impedance? The inductance of the cartridge is what speaks to the loading value. In this case the 500 ohm resistance value is also in question, but even if it were so, the inductance is what interacts with the phono cable capacitance to set up the tuned RF ci... | |
| highly sensitive loudspeakers for single ended poe David12, the difference between 10 watts and 20 watts is 3 db. That's not a lot to the human ear- something else is going on.SETs make very low distortion at low power levels. Once they get over about 25% of full power, then a substantial amount o... | |
| VDH Colibri XPP. Best Load impedance? Josef, as stated in several other threads, unless your preamp is sensitive to Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) then the loading will not be critical. If you find that it is, then your preamp is having a problem (and if it were me, I would consid... |