atmasphere
Responses from atmasphere
| XLR to RCA Adapters I do think that it's highly inaccurate to characterize line output transformers, as a group, as requiring a substantial or specific load on the secondary to acheive proper transient response.All of the line output transformers I have ever seen nee... | |
| Is no preamp the best preamp of all? Daverz, usually the problem with digital volume controls occurs when you drop the volume below about 75-85% of full volume, heard as a loss of resolution.To get around this problem many CD players actually have analog controls (which quite often i... | |
| Modern Linestages Grannyring, years ago we had to face the issue of 'what is reference?' To that end we came to the conclusion that no media could be trusted as it all has flaws as you mention.So we used direct microphone feeds. What we found with microphones runni... | |
| Modern Linestages Yes, if I take Grannyring's line of reasoning, he is talking about using synergistic effects to make a system work.Its my opinion that its a Bad Idea to use synergies, for example using a dark preamp to go with a bright source. What you wind up wi... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapters Uh, Victor, he was talking about an single-ended source driving a balanced amplifier... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapters Seakayaker, the issue with the use of a transformer is one of loading. If the transformer is not loaded, it may well be that it will express the inter-capacitive qualities of its windings rather than the turns ratio of the windings.IOW the frequen... | |
| Modern Linestages Onhwy61, if you want my opinion, keeping in mind that our preamps have a patented direct-coupled balanced output...We solved a major problem facing tube preamps with that patent. It means that we can build a tube preamp that is flat to 1 Hz and ca... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapters The reason you use balanced lines is lower noise and lower distortion, plus the opportunity to eliminate the sonic role that the cable has in the system. BTW, length (or shortness) of the cables has nothing to do with it!Now if you are using a sin... | |
| Modern Linestages A line stage has 4 functions:1) control volume2) select input3) add any needed gain4) control the interconnect cable at its outputOf these, it is the the last that is the least understood. Audiophiles are very used to auditioning interconnects, an... | |
| What is Warmth? If I understand you correctly, it is not that warm audio equipment have tilted frequency response per se but more that distortion from 2nd harmonic is more pronounced at the bottom end giving illusion to more lower frequency and less at the top, i... | |
| SET vs ICE vs GAINCLONE vs HYBRID vs other? When you read some audio history, you find that there is nothing new under the sun as far as amplifiers circuits. Most were invented and optimized prior to 1954 and most of todays gains were made with better passive parts.This statement is not co... | |
| What is Warmth? The definition that Gordon Holt suggests is really quite adequate. | |
| What is Warmth? Suteetat and Raul are both correct. Instruments and halls can have warmth of their own. This is natural.HiFi systems can have warmth too. This is not natural- it is a coloration caused not so much by frequency response errors (as is the common myt... | |
| Audible Illusions M3A preamp--best matching amp Any tube amp and most transistor amps will work fine with the M3A. | |
| Great lost lps...the 80s....synth pop and others.. the first Orb LP is dated 1989...I was a big fan of the 4AD label, with recording done by John Fryer- That West India Company "Ave Maria" was really cool.Back in those days I really went for the 12" singles. Talk Talk was usually a lot more intere... |