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| Atma-sphere 3.0 to 3.1 Elberoth2, I've been listening to the Sashas with MA-1s a lot recently. They seem to work quite well together and is what I based my comments on the Sashas on over on the Speakers forum.If you run the amps with less than the full complement, due t... | |
| Tube Fireworks Tubes have a cathode that emits elections. It is heated so it will emit electrons more efficiently, and finally it is also treated with a sort of paint that improves its efficiency even more. It is this coating where you have most of the arcing pr... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Mepearson, not to muddy the waters too much but I spotted a comment from Dertonarm that needs correction: the bearings in the Triplanar as good as you can find. They are custom-built by an aerospace bearing supplier, and are 3 or 4 grades higher i... | |
| Atma-sphere 3.0 to 3.1 Elberoth2, if you use a set of ZEROs, it will be outstanding. The Sashas don't need a lot of power but the M-60 does not like 4 ohms. The ZEROs fix that and will get you double the power that you would have without them on that speaker, and you wi... | |
| Sumptuous, lush, rich, liquid golden midrange amp? Springbok10, at any rate, if you want sweet, start with a triode amp. They make less of the odd-ordered harmonics that tetrodes and pentodes do. We describe those harmonics as 'hard, harsh' bright', etc. (Of course tubes in general make less of th... | |
| Sumptuous, lush, rich, liquid golden midrange amp? Springbok10, sounds to me like what you are describing is an SET. DeHavallind are some of the best- if you can find a GM-70 that might suit. | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Lewm, Exactly! About ten years ago I did initial sketches on a tone arm that used a mechanical track that had zero bearing slop. The are was otherwise conventional in that it used a pivot like a radial tracking arm, and a servo that was light-beam... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Sometimes an LP is rare enough that you put up with what you are able to find. All LPs have some warp. When speed variations are introduced, its likely that when they are subtle you are more likely to hear them as a wavering in the soundstage.I ha... | |
| Atma-Sphere S30 MKII in the S-30 you can just pull power tubes. My speakers work fine with 3 per channel, but they are about 97 db 1 watt/1 meter. The output impedance does get raised so with certain speakers you might introduce a coloration. | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Lewm, I built a servo for the Rabco (which uses contacts, not relays) so the contact had only to get below 1 Megohm and the motor would run. Then I put a large capacitor across the motor so it would ramp up slowly and turn off slowly. The result w... | |
| Atma-Sphere S30 MKII The signal paths of the two amps are the same. The Merlins appreciate the extra power though.BTW the ASOG site got shut down in October of 2004. A good portion of it is archived on the OTL Asylum at audioasylum.comhttp://www.audioasylum.com/forums... | |
| Whoosh sound on power off Jibbonacci, sometimes certain tubes can do that. Its not anything that can damage the amp. In time, you may get audible artifacts from the tube while the amp is playing- that would be the time that I would pay attention. In the meantime- no worries. | |
| Atma-sphere 3.0 to 3.1 The 3.1 update is a change to the voltage amplifier. It affects all our amplifiers. The change reduces measurable distortion- by about 90% at full power.Distortion has two audible properties in audio circuits, the first being that it causes harshn... | |
| help me remove noise from my vinyl setup It sounds like the noise is coming from the preamp itself.so you can:Get a higher output cartridgeorGet a step-up transformer to go between the cartridge and the preampor get another preamp. | |
| which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ? IME you can get excellent results with an SUT but the cartridge and the SUT must be matched for best results, including all the loading issues, as cartridges have loading issues and SUTs have loading issues of their own and neither can be ignored.... |