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| RCA to XLR adapters? The amp should not care if the input is balanced or single ended.You will not get the benefit of a balanced preamp, but it will work fine. | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Good point David. I had that demonstrated in spades at the recent RMAF. The complaint in the system was that the image was off to one side and it was being blamed on the amps. What was really going on was that the speaker was out of phase in one c... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Audioraider, if you swapped the arm wiring at the cartridge clips and the problem moved, its the cartridge.However now we have 3 cartridges that all seem to have the same problem, so its getting less likely that the cartridge is to blame. I also d... | |
| Are my ears just fooling me? The Merlins actually can do the job quite well and you don't have to get crazy expensive amps to do the job.But you want to keep in mind that anytime you hear a sax live, the perspective will be different from that of a recording if for no other r... | |
| How close to the real thing? I can hit 110 db at my listening chair with ease, and the system does not strain to do it (me speakers are 98 db and the amplifiers have 140 watts in class A). In fact at that volume it sounds quite relaxed- you have no idea its making that sound ... | |
| Ayon Triton the best tubes amp in the market? Nah. My amp is the best. So is my preamp. And I play the best music ever. | |
| Who is the KING of MONOS? In the list, 'Atma-Sphere' is misspelled. | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help In the old days it was not a good idea to do a resistance check of an MC cartridge because the meter would put a substantial DC current supplied by a battery through the coils which might leave a magnetic field.Then in the new days the DVMs put an... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Hifihvn makes a good point. The way you assure that the reading you are looking at is real is to start out by shorting the leads of the DVM together and looking at the reading you get. If the leads are in good shape you will see about 0.1 ohm.Now ... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help From the last set of measurements, it sounds like the arm wiring is fine.OK- so with 2 different cartridges the same thing happens. And if you swap the cables from the tone arm left for right at the input of the phono section, the problem moves. A... | |
| Who is the KING of MONOS? Dev, the MA-3 has 42 power tubes in each channel. Since they are dual triode tubes, that's 84 tube sections.The amp has built-in automated bias and DC Offset control (the tubes are directly-connected to the speaker outputs), built-in AC line regul... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Audioraider, the measurements you described indicate a problem with the tone arm cable. The center of the right channel RCA should have continuity to the red lead, ground of that RCA has continuity to the green lead. They should not have continuit... | |
| Empire 298 Questions We have developed an update path for the Empire as well (and Mike is one of our customers...) http://www.atma-sphere.com/products/208.htmlIf you decide to do the work yourself, we also have new correct motor mounts and new belts. This is an easy t... | |
| How close to the real thing? That's true but they are listening for the notes, not the sound. Its an entirely different portion of the brain that is used. Try sitting in front of a keyboard and see if you can work out the notes of a favorite melody and you will see what I mea... | |
| Who is the KING of MONOS? Why no tubes? Can't stand to be in the sight of the King?http://www.atma-sphere.com/products/ma3.htmlI've yet to see a transistor amp executed at this scale. Have I missed something? |