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| Phase inverting problem Recording engineers do not take note of whether their mixing board or recorders are inverting or not. Nor does it show up in the manuals for such.The simple fact is that a recording may or may not be absolute phase inverted. There is no coin, no d... | |
| How many tube watts for Vandersteen 2's? IME 60 watts in plenty for the Vandersteen 2s. They are easy to drive with most tube amplifiers. In the case of the M-60 you don't need the ZEROs, in the case of the S-30 I recommend trying it both ways and see. | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Weseixas, actually with many tube amps when you increase the load impedance the output power goes *up* not down.In the case of transformer coupled amps, this is because the OPT is more efficient. In the case of OTLs (and especially if its a *small... | |
| Opinions on Mogami Cable? I know of at least one high end company that marks the Mogami cables up by a factor of 10... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Halcro, here is our 'table. We've been making it about 10 years. It looks all the part of an Empire, but looks can be deceiving. The photo is from about 2000 or 2001.http://www.atma-sphere.com/products/208.htmlDgob, I have a little thought experim... | |
| New amp being touted as among the best ever...... Doesn't it all depend ... on ... lots of things, always?It goes against my instincts and experience to assume though that there is only one way (tubes) to make tasty audio soup and do the harmonic balance plus all the rest well.After all, we sent ... | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns Stimbo22, Brian seems to have designed his speakers so that he can use an active crossover. I suspect that if you were to open the cabinets, you would find some minor compensation components to deal with the characteristics of the drivers. The MA-... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? Kijanki, you and I are on the same page in that regard. It does you no good to drive 600 ohms if the circuit doing it sounds worse! | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Halcro, points are a sort of mechanical one-way diode. That is they are fairly efficient at transmitting vibration in only one direction. So if your points are pointed *down* under your tone arm: welcome to your plinth, the anti-vibration platform... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Certainly it is! The slew rate (or risetime) is a measure of how fast the amplifier can respond to a signal. The quicker it responds, the more likely the signal will be processed by the emotional centers of the brain (limbic system) rather than th... | |
| Phase inverting problem Tbg, we have had that feature in our preamps for the last 22 years. Its the least used switch on the preamp- by far! | |
| New amp being touted as among the best ever...... Let's just take a look at that model for a moment- the idea is that the amplifier is a 'voltage source' which is audio engineering shorthand for saying that it can make the same voltage into any load.This is great if the speaker is designed for th... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Now if running tubes, subjectively there is some argument, tubes have poor damping and hence very little bass control to speak off , a sealed enclosure might be an advantage here, TL too , due to the loading.Actually in practice the reverse is tru... | |
| New amp being touted as among the best ever...... The fact that an amplifier may or may not 'double down' really says nothing about its sound. | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns Right.I've spent a lot of time in the recording studio. I think you will find that the more you process the signal digitally, the less musical the final result will be.An fact the more you process the signal, analog or digital, the less musical th... |