atmasphere
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| Amp design logic Depends- does it have mayonnaise? | |
| Tubes vs Solid State Bifwynne, I would certainly give the ZEROs a try and see how that works out. If you are using the 8 ohm tap, at the 70-200Hz region the power tubes are loaded at half of what is expected for them. IOW, the output transformer live up to its name- i... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State There has been the question of why there is 4 ohms. The answer is that it makes it easier to make power with transistor amps.But making power is not by any stretch the same as making the best sound for a given amp. You can look at the specs of any... | |
| Amp design logic some Chinese component weirdness can trickle in 'Trickle' is really an understatement. I can give you plenty of other examples if you like. Just the tube sockets alone are example enough! Filter caps have been problematic as well as semiconductors... | |
| Preamp for Atma-sphere s30 Marty, there's been of lot of improvement in the S-30 in the last 15 years :) | |
| Warning: Linn tonearm anti-skate not accurate I think you will find that while many arms are marked with antiskate 'settings' that there really isn't an established standard. IOW the antiskate forces at 1 gram on one arm will be different from that of another arm. As a result the best method ... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question Sounds like when your guy looks at the strobe, the act of doing it loads the circuit enough that its unstable. Most 'scopes have a high impedance input (10M is typical) so the loading should not be an issue; this suggests that a device very close ... | |
| Who listens only to vinyl? I had a Linn CD transport. It died, seems to have a simple problem but try getting service info out of Linn!However I don't really miss it. I have a large collection of LPs and its always in danger of taking over the house. LPs are lot easier to f... | |
| 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. |