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| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Unsound, seriously, just try the test I outlined above. It will eliminate any doubts you may have. When GE did their tests they found that people would not object to up to 30% THD- if it was all 2nd harmonic. But less than 0.1% of odd orders and t... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Over the years I have been involved with a fair number of recordings, some of which have made it to LP, others CD only and still others that only exist as R2R. What I have found is that having a master tape to help me with evaluation is extremely ... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states I've only seen snipets but its easy to prove if you have some very basic test equipment.All you need is a sine/square wave generator, a small amp of any type, a VU meter and a speaker.Set up the sine to drive the amp, which is in turn driving the ... | |
| Making A Monoblock out of a VK-55 Ikonetic, I refer you to my earlier post- you will loose some delicacy. | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Cjfrbw, I agree with a lot of what you posted, I just don't think that should stop us as audiophiles/manufacturers or whatever from trying. I think intention plays a huge role- the guy that gets into a high end audio business to make money is ther... | |
| Making A Monoblock out of a VK-55 Right, Al, you can't use this technique with transistors!! They have to be bridged. Dynaco describes this monostrapping technique in the manual for their old Stereo 70. You do indeed get 2X the power. Since the output impedance is reduced (as seen... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Syntax, I could not disagree more. I've spent the last 20 years working out what the human hearing/perceptual rules are, and then making sure that our gear obeys those rules. This work is on-going- I am also exploring what Chaos Theory has to say ... | |
| Making A Monoblock out of a VK-55 Here's how its done, some as what you can do with our amps:put a Y adaptor on the inputs so the both have the same signal. Put a wire from the right +output to the left +output and then another wire from the right -output to the left -output. The ... | |
| Pairing Tenor 75 OTL with Soundlab Majestics? Hi Jeff, you will need a lot more power to work with a room that size! | |
| Looking for new speakers Allenjohns with that budget you might look at Audiokinesis. | |
| Impendance taps setting on a tube amp The transformer transforms the 4 ohm impedance to the higher impedance that the tubes have to drive. If you load the 4 ohm tap with 6 ohms, the impedance that the tubes see plate to plate will also go up. You will get slightly less power, but the ... | |
| Tube Diagnosis Cleaning the pins will not do a thing- that was obvious when the problem moved with the tube!The tube will be like this forever. If you don't mind tapping it occasionally, you might be able to use for quite a while longer, but you will find that w... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Their list of amps is incomplete :)It does seem as if a lot of 'advances' in technology are a sort of race to the bottom: mp3, and CDs to name a couple we are all familiar with. Many of the changes I saw in 'hifi' receivers over the years (I used ... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Unsound, the point of my post was in fact that all humans do indeed use the exact same perceptual rules- that is what the research (science) has proven. Taste is something else entirely and not on the table here.As Joe and Arthur point out, timing... | |
| tubes and rock and roll, good fit? Musicians use tubes because of their musical overload capabilities.If you really want to try out a tube amplifier, and see it rock out properly, the first thing to understand is that tube power is more expensive than solid state. The second thing ... |