atmasphere
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| Is it possible? A good solution? Audio is one of those things that really responds well to keeping things simple. Adding additional building blocks in the signal path is rarely a good thing. If you really want to hear analog done right, you keep any additional processing, especia... | |
| SET Preamps OK 'improved upon': *lower noise, *blacker backgrounds, *far greater immunity to the length or quality of the interconnect cables, *lower distortion/less need for negative feedback (since distortion components would be canceled with each stage of ... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Myles, the mbl has an impedance peak of about 8-9 ohms in the midrange driver. The designer is expecting the amp to reduce power by 3 db through this range. An amplifier with feedback will do it, one without will not. A good number of tube amps te... | |
| really? .89c ground lifters? The way it is done in pro-audio situations is to make sure the heart of the system (in a pro audio system: the mixer, in a home system: the preamp) is the only thing that is grounded. Otherwise there is a good likelihood of a ground loop between t... | |
| SET Preamps If you want my opinion I really feel that if you do fully differential in the preamp, there is a huge benefit there also, IOW even though there are many very musical single-ended tube preamps, they *can* be improved upon. | |
| Woofers Gone Wild Actusreus, what kind of speakers do you have? One area where there is not much you can do is if you have smaller woofers in a smaller cabinet. Once you get out-of-band there is nothing keeping the woofers from flopping around. In a case like this ... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states I think they do. It would be really tricky to build a zero-feedback transistor preamp. With tubes you can do three stages of gain between the LOMC phono input and the line out, I doubt that the same can be said of transistors, at least, I've not s... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states In the last 20 years the use of SETs has really increased a lot. It has resulted in a lot of speakers that were simply not available 20 years ago. So these days its ten times easier to find a speaker that works with 'current source' amplifiers tha... | |
| Woofers Gone Wild Actusreus, I guess I would really challenge whether or not that cartridge and arm combo is really correct. I'm a big fan of Occam's Razor, so I'm always looking for the simplest explanation. So when I hear that, the simplest explanation to me is t... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Unsound, I think the 'harm' comes in when the speaker requires that the amp use a lot of feedback to work right with the speaker. Since our ears use the 5th, 7th and 9th harmonics as a means to perceive sound pressure, and since negative feedback ... | |
| Woofers Gone Wild Bob, Yes, I don't need a filter- the electronics are flat to 2 Hz from the phono input and the speakers begin to roll at about 23 Hz and are 3 db down at 20Hz.Anytime you have a cutoff frequency, such as one introduced by a filter, phase anomalies... | |
| more adjectives to help define 'fatigue' vectors? In addition to Duke's comments, fatigue can be caused by the presence of odd-ordered harmonics in the amplified signal. Our ears use the odd orders (5th, 7th and 9th) as a means to determine the loudness (sound pressure) of a sound. If these harmo... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Kirkus, Shadorne, and Unsound, I really appreciate your input over the years. Inside of what I call the Voltage Paradigm, yours can usually be counted on to be accurate comments, and always done with decorum :)I want to point you to Duke's comment... | |
| Woofers Gone Wild Ported. | |
| End of Snell Acoustics? I had a set for a long time and they worked great- the setup was easy and I found that tubes drove them quite well. I know of a set for sale that is part of an estate. Seems to me they only want about $1200 for the pair. Contact me if interested a... |