atmasphere
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| good tube amp match for maggie 1.7's? Driving Magnaplanars is easy. If there are any doubts about a tube amp being able to do it, a set of ZEROs http://www.zeroimpedance.com to help out will do the trick. | |
| solid state vs tubes If you perceive the peaks as less loud because that is how people hear, that would seem to infer that the dynamic range is affected, at least as perceived, since the peaks do not seem as loud anymore, just as those nasty loudness cues due to negat... | |
| Can I ground my preamp? The preamp, being the heart of the system, should be grounded. The amps, for safety reasons, should be too, but for audio reasons (ground loop prevention) they should not. If the amps hum when grounded through the AC cords, it indicates that the m... | |
| balanced connection, better than single ended? Roscoeiii, I'm not sure I understand your question... I have used transformers at the output of single-ended preamps to enable them to drive very long cables, which by default have to be balanced. You can't do it with a simple adapter though, you ... | |
| solid state vs tubes Soft clipping means that dynamic range is restricted to some extent as I understand. That means loudness cues are reduced relatively, all other things aside, as well, right?What I was talking about is the types of distortions made by tubes and tra... | |
| balanced connection, better than single ended? do you imply that any sonic effect of cable capacitance, inductance and other electrical characteristics effecting the single ended cable sound - vanish? Gone? Diminished?Yes, either gone entirely or dramatically diminished. IME 'gone' is a lot cl... | |
| solid state vs tubes Mapman, I am **not** talking about clipping, although it is true that in clipping, tube amps generally make less odd ordered harmonics than transistors do.What I am talking about is the fact that when you use feedback to control distortion, the pr... | |
| solid state vs tubes Minorl, not to put to fine a point on it but the idea of designing an amplifier to pass a signal without distortion is being heavily glossed over in your arguments, which, other than that, I find myself in agreement with.The problem lies with the ... | |
| does amp draw alot of power when volume is zero Y'know, if you are concerned about power usage, its really a good idea to turn the stuff off when you are not using it.I've been interested in solar power for a long time. I was shocked (hah! pun intended) to find out that the length of time it is... | |
| What amp/pre-amp would you buy for $12-15k? Finding a balanced tube preamp that will keep you in your budget is no problem. | |
| balanced connection, better than single ended? The raison d'etre of balanced line is to be able to use any balanced cable cable of any length (or cost) and have that cable have zero sonic artifact. So it does not matter the length (nor price); there is always an advantage to balanced lines.In ... | |
| All I want is The Truth, just gimme some truth... Anytime you use a buffer section between the volume control means (in this case, the use of 'means' refers to 'method') and the output, its really not fair to call it a passive, FWIW. This is because there is now active circuitry between the volum... | |
| solid state vs tubes MrT, there was a time when planars ruled the roost when it comes to resolution. That time has passed- there are a good number of cone systems now that easily compete with the best planars.However, my comments were more the point that if you had a ... | |
| solid state vs tubes Unsound, in this case Mr. Norber was telling me, as did the other manufacturers, that indeed their amps do sound better into higher impedances, despite making less power.The Mac autoformers are used to load the transistors at a lower impedance if ... | |
| solid state vs tubes Unsound, Paul Speltz who makes the ZEROs has a letter from Steve McCormick, in which Steve asserts that his amps, which have no problem with 4 ohms at all, sound better driving 4 ohms through the ZEROs.Upon hearing about this (which was about 2 ye... |