atmasphere
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| Why not horns? Unsound, I appreciate your last comment. It is where I was for many years, and to this day (and I expect for years to come) I still run into horn designs that are guilty of everything you mention in your first paragraph. When horns suck, they real... | |
| any audiophile guitarists out there? I play a bass guitar- it looks like an acoustic guitar but has only 4 strings. I built up an little amplifier that is pretty fun to play.There's a photo of it at this thread on DIYAudio.com. | |
| Balanced vs Unbalanced? Herman, just for the record, I like SETs a lot myself and have built a number of type 45 and 2A3 based amps.But before we go into that, One unmentioned difficulty is that for everything to work as designed you have to have a circuit capable of pro... | |
| 6922 6DJ8 or 12 AX7 tubes better for preamp? The 12AX7 is great for noise and low distortion, but is bad at bandwidth, making it a poor choice if you want passive EQ. The 6922/6DJ8 has good bandwidth, but the design of the tube is not for audio: while very good linearity, the design is prone... | |
| Why not horns? Herman, I leave the design of speakers to someone else to prevent headaches. I was just pointing out that the crossover can be used to correct time alignment (sometimes this results in the need to reverse the phase of certain drivers as a result),... | |
| Feedback on Classic Audio Reproductions T-5 The last time I heard the T5 was quite a while ago at a show. They are easy to drive, in a lot of cases 60 watts may be all you need. They are 16 ohms so making power with a tube amp is easy with them. The thing is, John has been updating the T-3 ... | |
| Balanced vs Unbalanced? I did forget something- a request. There are those of you here that disagree with my prior post and will have talking points. Please keep them if you can to one talking point at a time, so that we can be clear that they get responded to in a coher... | |
| Balanced vs Unbalanced? Alright, there is a fair amount of misinformation in this thread, and I thought since we essentially introduced balanced line operation to high end audio, I thought I should correct the misinformation herein and explain some of the whys.Balanced o... | |
| small room... tube amp... summer I have a box on the other side of the wall that has the amps in it. It allows very short speaker cables to the speakers, and keeps the heat of the amps outside of the room.I have a customer in Guatemala City who runs our biggest amp (42 power tube... | |
| Why not horns? Phase can be adjusted to a fair degree in the crossover as well. Mapman, the horns I listen to, as far as the soundstage is concerned, seem entirely recording-dependent as far was whether they are upfront or laid back. IOW they are neutral in this... | |
| wilson sophias to monitors Yes, the Bella Twins are not on the High Emotion Audio site but they do make it. I would contact them. Once you've heard a set it will be hard to go back to the Wilsons... | |
| wilson sophias to monitors If you want something really transparent, the High Emotion Audio Bella Twins will do the job. They need to be about 1 to 1.5 feet from the rear wall and are very honest to 36 Hz.But they are more detailed than the Wilsons, faster, yet very relaxed... | |
| Why not horns? Eldartford, and Appollo66, I remember back in the early 90s Harry Pearson said about horns: "they aren't high end". He turned out to be wrong about that, even back then. Since then of course horns have continued to improve.I enjoy mine not simply ... | |
| Best balanced tube preamp for NHT XD System? Daverz, the general rule of thumb is 10:1, but you see these higher numbers due to the fact that a lot of tube preamps have a coupling cap at the output that will limit their low frequency response/impact. Its another way of saying that their outp... | |
| Does "perfect alignment of cart" eliminate 100% ? I have a Triplanar, a ZYX Universe and a Transfiguration Orpheus. Neither exhibits even a slight amount of mistracking at the inner grooves. One day one of my cartridges died, and while it was being fixed, I used a Grado Green, which retails for a... |