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| Can I swap a Stepped Attenuator for a Potentiomer? Switches make a difference in performance. The reason is that not all contacts are created equal- the best will be doubled up to increase contact pressure and area. So yes, the input switches can make a difference.If you are really considering doi... | |
| Best tube mono blocks under $15,000? Just FWIW, based on the impedance curve I have seen of this speaker, the MA-1 should do just fine on it- although it may be a good idea to use a zobel network centered at about 1 KHz.Alternatively a set of ZEROs could be employed. | |
| Best phono stage balanced under $3000 used Manitunc, the advantage of running the cartridge balanced is the fact that the balanced cable will have no effect on the sound.The balanced system was in fact devised to eliminate cable artifacts. In doing so cable length is less important as is t... | |
| How important is the tonearm? One nice thing about the Triplanar is you can set up the effective mass of the arm/cartridge system to match a range of cartridge compliances. Beyond the abilities to set the usual adjustments, this feature reduces the need to be picky about the c... | |
| Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams Lrsky, if I am not mistaken there is now limited production on some of the bigger Pipedream models. | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Weseixas, I think that Classic Audio Loudspeakers will be showing at Axpona. Its a new show, at a new location, so unlike THE Show or RMAF, everyone will be at square 1 trying to figure out how to make the rooms work properly. So you will want to ... | |
| Do Mono Block amps provide better sound ?? Roscoeiii, the size of the amp is not important in this conversation- the benefits are the same. Price certainly has a lot to do with it too. You have an extra chassis, and certainly the need for more power transformers. These can be some of the m... | |
| Do Mono Block amps provide better sound ?? The issue of monoblocks vs stereo is more than just cosmetics.Normally, stereo amplifiers share a common power supply. Some manufacturers will go through the extra effort (and cost) to build separate power supplies in the same box, but if single s... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Just to dispel a couple of common myths, Sound Labs are capable of impressive dynamics, and horns are able to be as uncolored as the best ESLs and magnetic planars in existence.Much is owed to setup- the gear and care upstream. | |
| Amp to match Avantgarde Uno G2 horn speakers Can anyone here read Greek? Some years back a Greek reviewer bought an S-30 from us, for use on his UNOs, and he sent us this:http://www.atma-sphere.com/reviews/eav/index.htmlWe always assumed that it was a good review, and he did comment to us th... | |
| MC loading at 47K Stops, sounds to me like you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on here. We are indeed talking about a tuned resonant circuit, and how to damp its behavior. | |
| Best phono stage balanced under $3000 used YOu might ba able to find an Atma-Sphere MP-3 used for that. | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Duke of Audiokinesis introduced a new speaker at RMAF called the Strato-Prism. This speaker was easy to drive (16 ohms) and has good efficiency and plays deep bass rather well! (in addition to being very musical, cohesive and revealing) Its not as... | |
| OTL Tube Amp for Maggie 3.6? A set of power tubes for a pair of MA-3s is $2000.Wendal Diller told me once that the best he ever heard the MG-20.1s was with a set of MA-2s. Certainly MA-2s have no problem with 3.6s and the like! Years ago a friend of mine ran Tympany 4s with M... | |
| A good Preamp for ST70 Kollert and Hoopster, it seems to me that to do a proper update, its about $900.00. The power supplies are rebuilt, then the circuit boards are updated. The tone controls are removed and the EQ for the phono is updated and moved to the circuit boa... |