atmasphere
Responses from atmasphere
| TRL Dude or Joule 150 MKII for Major Pre Upgrade Hi Grannyring, if the the chassis is grounded to the middle pin of the IEC, but there is no resistance (open) between the RCA ground and the chassis, then the chassis can act as a sort of antenna- and thus can can buzz.A resistor of about 100 ohms... | |
| Benz cartridge phase? Air is non-linear, but this affects air pressure with respect to altitude. As long as your altitude stays constant while the speakers are moving in and out, you should be OK :)Absolute phase *does* make a difference though- we have had a phase swi... | |
| TRL Dude or Joule 150 MKII for Major Pre Upgrade We had a Dude in here for repair a while back and found that the ground setup was peculiar. In a nutshell is would not pass UL/CE certification. I understand later units are grounded differently.I think there are several things going on with the v... | |
| My Final Amplifier Purchase - What Would You Buy? Doug is correct in that the S-30 is mismatched with your Silverlines. The Silverlines are, for the most part, based on the Voltage Paradigm and the S-30 is based on the Power Paradigm. IOW the Silverlines want an amplifier that has constant voltag... | |
| Pass XA Monoblock Amps with Audio Research Preamps If the input impedance of the amp is less than 30K, ARC preamps will tend to be bass-shy. There was a thread about this just a few months ago. | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? Anybody listed all the amps to keep for life? | |
| TRL Dude or Joule 150 MKII for Major Pre Upgrade Mitch2, as much as I think you should be buying my preamp :) instead of the Dude, I am sure the Dude can work with your amplifier. The problem is that the adapters you were using were not wired right.The problem is that pin 3 of the XLR was left f... | |
| pass labs xa30 to valve amplifier. James123, a preamp that supports the balanced standard is my suggestion. The ARC is one that does not. The balanced standard (what created balanced line operation) is supposed to make the system immune to the quality/length of the cable. If the pr... | |
| I've narrowed it down... Every bit of audio equipment ever made has warmup times at least that long. Not that you can't enjoy it long before that. Many years ago when I still ran transistors, I had to leave them on 24/7 so they would sound their best. It took them a week ... | |
| Tube sellers 'NOS' tubes are one of the bigger problems we have with our preamps. It is very difficult to find NOS 12AT7s that are as quiet as actual new ones. As with any high-performance tube equipment, you can't just buy tubes off-the-shelf and have them wo... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Atmasphere - I think you are too optimistic on the quality of the US power supply. The US grid is split into 4 quadrants and the supply agreements in place with the power providers have delivery standards etc, but there are NO standards in the agr... | |
| Kate Bush I must have lucked out. I would not say the pressing is perfect, very few are, but it does not exhibit excessive noise on any particular track (including side 1); instead there a few random minor ticks and pops throughout- no loud crackling noises... | |
| Kate Bush Then I am at a loss to understand. About 13 years ago I got the new Porcupine Tree LP Signify. Easily half of the pressings had defects. Unfortunately, this sort of thing happens... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy However, he did also comment that with a true 3-phase AC synchronous motor controller (so you can throw away the phase-splitting capacitor), the Papst would have been MUCH quieter and therefore might outperform the Thorens motor in all other respe... | |
| I've narrowed it down... Unsound, The 3rd harmonic is one of the lower orders and is the only one considered musical with relation to the fundamental by the human ear. So Nelson's comment is spot-on.When Crowhurst was writing, it was not generally understood at the time t... |