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| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? @mitch2 Yes! You also want good solid connections at either end so they don’t heat; heat means a Voltage loss. ***************** If you want an inexpensive means of building a power cord, use the kind of AC power cord used by an electric dryer o... | |
| Amp suggestion for Merlin TSM speakers @troutbum If you're on a budget, you might want to look into something like a refurbished or new Dynaco ST70. You can easily find one for well within your price range and its a very competent amplifier in its stock form. If you get a used one ma... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? @dwette +1 Thanks! | |
| Amp suggestion for Merlin TSM speakers everything I've read seems to suggest Merlin TSMs perform at their best with tubes. Not poo booing your suggestion, just telling you what I have read. I've nothing against solid state at all. Any response to this? Thanks. @troutbum The Merlins ... | |
| 300b lovers @alexberger Yes, that's how its done. Note that the EF86 input tube is wired in triode mode. Its quite linear that way; my Neumann U67 microphones use the same tube in the same manner sans feedback. | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? One question, do you mean voltage drops from the "wall" or within the amplifier itself due to volume adjustment. @aberyclark I’m referring to Voltage drops from the wall. In the case of our class D the volume control will affect the Voltage dro... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? I was talking about vinyl records quality-control / sound-check, not cutting press-form process equipment. @westcoastaudiophile So was I. In the pressing plant they don't play LPs back. Instead, they send something called a 'test pressing' bac... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? Any thoughts on the Holbo deck from Slovenia? It combines an air bearing turntable with a linear tracking tonearm, which also runs on air. @richardbrand Generally speaking, you want zero slop (play, endfloat, whatever you want to call it) betw... | |
| Speakers for Graaf GM 20 OTL @alanpiga Low power OTLs work best with speakers of higher impedance. 16 Ohms usually works a lot better than 8 Ohms. If you are not planning on very high volumes, the famous BBC-designed LS35a is a 15 Ohm load and plays very nicely with amps lik... | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? A better question may be "why do the manufacturers of a $7,000 amplifier even bother to include a power cable", given that it will be immediately replaced? @tony1954 Because the customer has to be able to plug it in right away. Even though they... | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? "Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers?" @aberyclark Power cords affect the sound of an amp due to Voltage drop across the power cord. Due to the power draw of our tube amp power cords can affect them qui... | |
| Which is best, using balanced or non-balanced connection? However, my question is how I should connect the external amp for the best sound. Should I use the balanced or unbalanced connection? @mjrice2 If your amp has a balanced input and is internally balanced, driving it balanced will allow it to hav... | |
| Tube Pre/ Class D Amp - Who has done it? I've been running a tube preamp with class Ds as well. Both are balanced and the amps are so light and make no heat so they sit on top of my speakers. I'm able to run long interconnects so my speaker cables are quite short. I used to run a set of ... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? This doesn't mean that your audiophile cables don't make them sound better than similar $5 per mile cables. They do. @inna In the recording studio they don't. That is because the equipment in the studio is balanced and supports AES48, the balan... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp Do the tariffs affect the used markets as well? I'm thinking yes but not sure. @dz13 Yes. Think of it in terms of shortages. This will push the used market up as new prices go up as well. Its a manufactured inflation. We make our boards he... |