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| What adhesive is used to re-tip a cartridge? Great work Steve! Thanks for posting that. | |
| Monitor speaker that will stop the Quest? I also would rate the Merlin highly but I don't see it as a monitor. If you want a monitor, the best I have seen so far is made by High Emotion Audio. http://www.highemotionaudio.comThe Pyra Bella 7. This speaker employs a unique tweeter that puts... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Br3098, I appreciate the humor but seriously, the heat of our amps is quite manageable. Up here in Minnesota we see the highest dewpoints recorded anywhere worldwide and our amps are easy to live with even in the summer. However the heat comes fro... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Br3098, try it, you never know- for sure it will work with a pair of ZEROs... | |
| Amps and the ESL 57 Hvowell, for your answer, seehttp://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.htmlThe ESL57 is a Power Paradigm technology, so look for amps with higher output impedances to drive it. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Prdprez, Victor's first prototype was essentially an OTL, using a set of our Z-Music autoformers as the output transformer. In production he used a toroidal device similar to the ZERO.Victor's partner, Steve Bednarski, was a customer of ours. His ... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Marakanetz, not to be on your case or anything but while we do go for as much performance as possible at the same time we take advantage of the vintage look to keep the overall cost down, making our amps affordable against similarly-powered tube a... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Sorry, Marakanetz, that explanation is not correct. First off, not all tube amps have output transformers. Mlsstl put his finger on the issue- odd ordered harmonics.Smooth clipping is less odd-orders. Music is a very transient sort of waveform- wh... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Beerdraft, no, we don't make transistor amps. We're known for making OTLs but we've been in business nearly 34 years and in that time seen a lot of OTL manufacturers come and go. One of the signs that an OTL manufacturer is going to go out of busi... | |
| current versus watts Dob, yes, the transient time, propagation delay, plays a huge role in the effectiveness of global loop feedback. I am not sure exactly how fast an amp has to be though; even the fastest amps I have seen seem to have problems when feedback is appli... | |
| Empire 208 turntable When we made our new plinth the difference was immediately audible. Its machined out of solid aluminum and fits all the old parts except the arm. You can treat the old plinth with damping materials, but the stiffer you can make the coupling from t... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Pgtaylor, its the arm tube. It has a mid-frequency resonance and is poorly controlled by the materials within. That's where the Graham and the Triplanar take it to task.The Sayles arm looks brilliant. Now can we have a version that puts the bearin... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Beerdraft, I agree with you that some manufacturers do do that. I'm pretty sure the rest of that is apocryphal. We heard his amps almost right away... | |
| Amp/ preamp for electostatics and why Ikonetic, I just search on 'atma', that's the easiest. FWIW the autoformers will have less in your path than a conventional output transformer-coupled amp will and there is a version that essentially replaces your speaker cables. | |
| What tubes for sibilant SET Triode amp Some people have quiet environments and their rooms are lively at the same time; I can see how that can work. Tfkaudio's suggestions sound like a very good place to start. Like I said before, sibilance is something SETs are not known for, and a bi... |