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| Silent Running Audio vs Minus-K under tube amps The Silent Running bases for amplifiers are some of the best we have seen. | |
| How close to the real thing? Hi Kirkus, that one is easy! Its the same issue of when you hear a really good digital recording, one that is really convincing. What would it sound like it had been done analog?The whole experience here comes down to one of expectation and intent... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Mary Tyler Moore calls it 'upstate' but we call it up north. Northern Minnesota, with its vast penguin ranches. | |
| How close to the real thing? Irvrobinson, in a nutshell, frequency response variation is not why tubes sound different! I've heard that idea expressed before, but its hard to find real world examples so I have to chalk it up to mythology. This is easily proven by using a spea... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Martykl, yes, we are all usually out on the lake ice fishing every weekend starting about September or so. I'll ask them next time I see them but I heard that Dean was injured up north recently so I may not see him very soon. Apparently he was nea... | |
| How close to the real thing? Hi Kirkus, that was not what I recalled so I looked up the Ampex schematic... Its not the record head that has feedback- prior to that the record calibration circuit does use a feedback mechanism. The rest of the circuit has none.I did think about... | |
| Black Sabbath fans...Vertigo LP's The German Vertigo press are excellent too- much better than the American press. | |
| How close to the real thing? Yes, feedback is somewhere in there. But there is correct feedback, and "bad" feedback! If feedback was inherently not good then no piece of recorded music could ever be made to sound good, since every recording device and studio is riddled with f... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Martykl, its my guess its the latter rather than the former. I really doubt ARC would make an amplifier that could not manage a single-ended input! | |
| Int. Amp's input sensitivity and DAC's output DAC manufacturers seem to all have a kind of arrogance that says you will never use anything but their DAC driving your power amps.There is no idea that you might be using an integrated, or possibly a phono section as well.On top of that there is ... | |
| How close to the real thing? Tubes and transistors seem to act very similar to feedback. I've less experience with class D, but from what I am seeing there are several techniques of using feedback and some work better than others, so it would be unsafe to generalize that feed... | |
| How close to the real thing? Timlub, It looks to me like Fas42 places a lot of importance on soundstage and imaging. There are different types of 'distortion' that affect that- primarily of bandwidth. The better it is the more intact the phase relationships, which are what de... | |
| How close to the real thing? FWIW, low ordered distortion is pleasant, but it does obscure detail, and the ear tends to hear it as a fatness or warmth in the sound. Lower orders are the 2nd, 3rd and 4th.Transistor amps have almost none of these distortions, but they are commo... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? If the amplifier is truly balanced, it will not care if the input signal is balanced or single ended, nor will it matter if you use the RCA or XLR for that input.I can imagine an amplifier that is balanced but does not take advantage of all the po... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Won't these advantages be negated if a single-ended signal is put through a balanced amp?No. As soon as the signal is in the amp, it will be in the balanced domain if the amp is really balanced.Using a Jensen may not be a bad idea- you have the SE... |