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| solid state vs tubes MrT, there may be another way to do this. The Quad has a low impedance at high frequencies and a lot of transistor amps will tend to make more power due to that, part of the reason why they sound bright on the ESLs and with less bass impact than m... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained People don't want neutral sound - just look at Audiogon posts how many people seek warm sounding gear or ask how to make sound warmer. One person started thread asking how to make sound warmer and less detailed (I advised blanket over speakers)Kij... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Right. The first has nothing to do with my comments as it addresses a different issue of digital gear. The second does bear some relevance and does not contradict the findings that GE made in the mid-60s. | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained It is also common fact that most Audiophile find equipment "clinical" or "analytical" sounding often are the same with low THD and great linearity measurements. You can arrive at the logical conclusion right????Carlos, not to put to fine a point o... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained It was not an analogue versus digital, which sound better? article; but rather and article concerning why added distortion, by way of phase manipulation and harmonic enhancement/restructuring, has pleasing effect that many qualify as sounding "bet... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained No doubt! But it extends to anything that can draw significant power- and bigger transistor amps can! Imagine the peaks just... not... making it.This taught us a lesson... when we set up an amplifier for test, we test the AC line voltage from the ... | |
| Overpowering Speakers Given a choice, I will take the bigger amp any day. You run less risk of damaging the speaker! A smaller amp, if overdriven, is how most tweeters in the world get damaged. In fact, if the tweeter is damaged in a speaker, the repair technician shou... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Carlos269, upon reading this article I am struck by the simple fact that the guy who wrote it must have an atrocious monitor system! -and is either partially deaf (common with engineers in the studio) or simply has no idea which way is up. I too h... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained I have to debunk some of what is being said here.The reel to reel thing: Think about how you do your dubs from LP. If you are like me, you use headphones plugged into the tape machine for a monitor. I usually keep the speaker volume down, as there... | |
| Overpowering Speakers Timlub, I'm pretty sure you will need over 400 watts to drive an 84 db speaker to 111 db.Here's a useful web page for things like this:http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-gainloss.htmtake a look at the chart at the bottom of the page. | |
| Pass Aleph 3 into 16 ohms Al is right- there is a big difference between power response and voltage response. The manual referred to by 6550c is talking about voltage response, not power response.Some speakers are designed for voltage response, and some are not. See http:/... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps Its very difficult to compete with OTL in harmonic richness for any solid state amplifier. I admit it. We are doing our best but its difficult.I went down a similar path 25 years ago. It got a lot easier when we got rid of the feedback. All I can ... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps negative feedback....to control speakers even better.Negative feedback cannot be used to control speakers. It can only be used to control amplifiers. The idea that it helps with speaker control is part of the myth of damping factor, a subject that... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps Sure. The issue is this: there are human hearing perceptual rules and there are the specs that we see on paper, and surprisingly they have very little to do with each other. So if you design your amp to look good on paper, it at best will sound li... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps Here is the issue with OTLs and speaker loads. There are two major concerns. The first is this:http://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.htmlIn short you want a speaker that is designed for tubes. The second is that the smaller you make th... |