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| CES in Las Vegas A manufacturer or dealer can get you in for free- if you know one contact them about badges. T.H.E. Show will be two doors down at the Flamingo and it is easier to get into. A significant number of manufacturers will be there as well- T.H.E. Show ... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Kirkus, it seems you got my point in your last paragraph. We could easily build an OTL with an output impedance of 0.1 ohms with enough feedback, but it would never sound right, and the lower output impedance would say nothing about what loads it ... | |
| Anybody with an expensive TT try this???? Mike, in order to get away with that, the same rules of compatibility with your arm apply- effective mass, mechanical resonance, that sort of thing. IOW you have to apply the same care in selection for your arm like you do with an expensive cartri... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Unsound, I agree with you. I should point out that what you said in your last post is not anything I was suggesting. I think its nice if an amp measures well, if it also sounds good to the human ear.What I have found is that the physics of making ... | |
| Double down, good or bad? I'll take it a step further- there aren't **any** tube amps that double power, yet the tubes vs transistors debate has been here for 40 years... what does that tell you? The tubes failed to be the 'obsolete' technology that they were supposed to b... | |
| which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ? I find that transformers tend to obscure detail and they limit bandwidth. So if you have enough gain, an MC high gain phono section might be better if properly designed.The loading of the transformer is critical, else it can ring (distort), making... | |
| Anybody with an expensive TT try this???? I have a Triplanar Mk7 on the Atma-Sphere 208 'table. My regular cartridge lost a channel, and for about 2 weeks the only thing I had was a Grado Green, which is not expensive at all. It tracked fine in the Triplanar- so I tortured it with a few t... | |
| no low end st70 You might also make sure that your speakers are in phase. IOW, that the 'plus' from the amplifier is going to the 'plus' on the speakers **in both channels**. | |
| Best Used Record Shops- Phoenix Area Sorry to hear about PDQ- there was a time when they were awesome. | |
| Help needed solving amplifier problem/mystery Canjo07, you speakers are OK. But I spotted something in one of your posts that sounded like a procedural error.Swap the channels left for right at the input of your amp. Then wait for the problem- is it still in the same channel?Yes=> amplifie... | |
| Tube vs. Solid State Rectifier Tube rectification is nice if you can do it! Newer tube amps have bigger power supplies and so can easily damage a tube rectifier during warm-up. So a tube rectifier usually means that the capacitance in the power supply is limited to a small valu... | |
| Upgrade from Pass Xono - Recommendations Of course I think there are tube phono sections that are better, but one of the better, maybe best solid state phono sections I've heard is the Tom Evans. Seems to me it is kind of pricey- about $10,000 if I recall right. | |
| Classic Audio T1 and T3 field coil loudspeakers Jtimothya, I have T-3s at home. The T-3 as an all-alnico unit is $15,500. You can add the field-coil drivers as options. The midrange is the most important (that's what I have right now- next step is the super tweeters), that puts the cost at $18,... | |
| SET the best? IMO if there is a subsonic rolloff, you hear it as a diminution of bass impact. It can also be measured quite easily- square wave tilt is the measurement. Having played around with LF cutoff frequencies a lot (our amps are full power to either 1Hz... | |
| Best Used Record Shops- Phoenix Area If you can go down to Tucson, PDQ has always been a great store (520) 881-2681 |