atmasphere
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| 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... | |
| 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 ... |