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| Digital input amp They take a USB or other input. No DAC on the front end. Just the DSP engine to do volume, eq, etc, then whatever conversion to PCM to feed the class D output. So the only "DAC" is the output stage. @tvrgeek To be clear, the DAC is at the inpu... | |
| 300b lovers I wouldn't try mixing and matching Ralph's approach with ours. Ralph has his way of doing things, and his own unique taste in sonics, and we have ours. Most designers in this biz have a distinct "house sound" that they aim for, which results from... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? however for hologram sound nothing beats TUBES and not old crap from the 80’s but modern made gear. @luvharbeth That used to be true- no longer. You can now get that from class D if the designer did his homework, and just as smooth and relaxed ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Are there any class a/b amps in your opinion that have gotten it right? Thanks Zero feedback is one way to get it 'right'. The problem is its very difficult to get the Gain Bandwidth Product needed to support both the gain of the amp and the a... | |
| New Generation Class D - AGD Audion Mkiii upgrade when you take it to the next level vs say a very good class A amplifier , or very good class AB amps of our well known Danish companies , then myself and many others are waiting for that , look at Merrill their insane pricing ,and IMO wasted $$ o... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? @inna I think you're looking at this the wrong way. Tubes sound the way they do because of the distortion they make. If you can make something else to make distortion of the same kind it will sound the same for that reason. There are lots of thi... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Ralph, I hope you are wrong about tube power amps becoming obsolete soon enough. It pains me. I am a traditionalist of a sort and don't want to hear it. @inna Seriously I wouldn't worry about it. There are tubes for now and I think you'll find ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Ralph might partly disagree, but tubes are like tape - there is currently no substitute. @inna You're correct in that I 'might' disagree. There are class D amps now that have the same distortion signature as a good tube amp and so unsurprising... | |
| New Generation Class D - AGD Audion Mkiii upgrade I am waiting to see when Atma- Sphere will be tak8ng the next step up in technologies , Ralph doesnot exactly state the module @audioman58 Actually I have a good number of times- we developed our own Atma-Sphere module. We are an engineering ... | |
| Audio Research reference amplifiers used with RCA IC`s and unbalanced preamplifiers 👍 | |
| Audio Research reference amplifiers used with RCA IC`s and unbalanced preamplifiers Also, Kalvin is not retired and is at ARC and is usually the guy who answers the phone. @speedthrills I went to Ward's funeral (RIP, Ward) a couple of years ago and saw Kalvin there. He told me he had left ARC a couple of years earlier. If he h... | |
| Audio Research reference amplifiers used with RCA IC`s and unbalanced preamplifiers As these amplifiers are fully balanced and don't have an RCA input, can I use RCA interconnects with a conversion plug from RCA to balanced at the amplifier input and will it work in my system? @nsp I think the answer is no. IIRC, these two am... | |
| Radical toe in once more Is there an "inherent" problem with radical toe in, when the main sound from the front drivers cross in front of the listener, instead of the more conventional setup where the crossing point is behind the listener - and if so, what? @o_holter T... | |
| 300b lovers It doesn't mean you cannot build a nice amp that uses NFB, but that "air" and sense of "realism" that you treasure is hindered by NFB. That depends on how the feedback is implemented!! If the feedback is sent to a non-linear point in the input ... | |
| Best speakers for classic rock Yeah right....you’ll make a sarod and a piano sound the same (equally flippin brilliant) on every kind of speaker...Immense Bullsht is what it is! Lol @deep_333 I never said anything like that (take a look). Of course different speakers sound... |