atmasphere
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| Why amps, pre-amps, integrated amps??? Yes, excessive loop feedback has been a problem in the past! I concur with the THD wars, but amps built for low TIM back in the early 80s or thereabouts definitely got a bad reputation.It does not surprise me at all that progress has been made in ... | |
| Sonic atributes ultralinear vs tetrode vs pentode Trelja, obviously we see things very differently :)I've done a lot of work over the years with ultralinear amps (quite a lot of those were Dynaco amps)! There is no way I would say they rule the day, I would put ultralinear as a distant second to ... | |
| Budget Chinese Tube amps - any good? We used to make a guitar amplifier for a guitar amp company in town. One time they sent some parts to us to evaluate- they were Chinese imports. One of the parts was an electrolytic capacitor, rated 47uf @ 450Volts.Now this might be a part you wou... | |
| Why amps, pre-amps, integrated amps??? The 'TIM' amps of the late 70s and early 80s proved to be a dead end. What they proved was that you can go overboard chasing specs to the detriment of the final product. | |
| Servicing amplifiers from very small companies? Not only that, but there are a lot of bootleg copies of transistors on the market these days. So replacement power transistors have to come from a very reputable source. | |
| Sonic atributes ultralinear vs tetrode vs pentode You won't hear so much difference between Tetrode and Pentode, but you will hear a difference between Ultralinear and the others. Ultralinear allows the tubes to approach triode linearity, while retaining most of the power that Tetrodes (or Pentod... | |
| Differential from source to pre but not amp? I should point out that to take advantage of the ability of balanced lines to be immune to the cost and length of the cable, the source driving the cable should conform to the balanced standard. If not, you may be able to run the balanced connecti... | |
| Differential from source to pre but not amp? Yes, there can be plenty of benefit! Differential circuits are not only lower noise, but lower distortion due to distortion cancellation at each stage of gain, compared to single-ended circuits of otherwise similar topology. When you reduce noise ... | |
| Good Tube Selection for Atma Sphere S30? Russian power tubes are fine! The only Russian 6SN7s worth looking into are vintage made in or before the 1960s. | |
| Why few discussion on Audio Machina CRM, CRG, CRS? One year at THE Show (CES) Karl showed next door to us. If I recall right, the manufacturer he was to show with was unable to make it at the last minute, but as luck would have it we had a spare set of M-60s on hand so we lent them to him.The spea... | |
| RFI - Turntable Rig Yes, try that. Lets see if the RF is coming in with the cable or not. | |
| RFI - Turntable Rig What happens when you have the Whest hooked up to the system, but nothing at its input? Do you still have the RF? | |
| Southwest Technical Products Universal Tiger If he does repairs, he should have no trouble with this one. The Tiger is a pretty straight-ahead circuit. | |
| Best Platter Material The best platter pad I have ever seen was made by Warren Gehl, who is currently working at Audio Research. His platter pads are now pushing 20 years old but are still getting good resale prices when they show up.The issue here is the durameter (ha... | |
| Bandwidth question? Marakanetz, as I mentioned earlier, it does not seem to matter that the speakers lack the bandwidth of the amps. The phase shift that will occur in the amplifier due to bandwidth limitations is something that you hear well within the range of huma... |