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| Does Class A amplifier artificially smoothen sound We've made class A amps for a long time and one thing that has always been an issue is the revealing nature that class A can bring to an amplifier. If your digital gear does not have its ducks in a row, it can give you a headache. So I'm with Stan... | |
| Tube-amp for Magnepan? Yes, ElectroKardiogramm has the subterranian bass that won the LP its status. I have seen this cut separate the wheat from the chaff a number of times :) BTW the 20.1 does a great job with it. | |
| Tube Monoblock location? - Rack or near speakers? Hifitime, if you think about it, a tube amp sitting beside a speaker is not going to get any more vibration than one far away. But really, if you try the difference between long speaker cables and short interconnects as opposed to short speaker ca... | |
| Dynaco PAS 2 value and difference to PAS 3? I've been doing mods on the PAS preamps for 30 years. There is **plenty** of reason to bypass the tone controls! Even if set flat, the stock line stage lacks bandwidth and resolution. However the line stage circuit can be seriously upgraded such t... | |
| Tube Monoblock location? - Rack or near speakers? This is one advantage of balanced cables. The shorter you can keep the speaker cables, the better (more resolution, more impact). Preamps that have a low output impedance can drive longer cables, so some single ended preamps will allow up to 20 fe... | |
| Tube-amp for Magnepan? Here are some recordings that also have impressive deep bass: http://www.atma-sphere.com/awards/bya/index.html | |
| Tube preamp for techno and other bass-heavy music? I listen to a lot of stuff with information below 42Hz! I played string bass in junior high and past college. So I find that bass response is important to me to be convincing, and since I like a lot of electronia, I have speakers that go to 20Hz a... | |
| Too Many Tubes? Tubes, triodes in particular, are still the most linear form of amplification known. So using tubes generally allows one to have less stages of gain and that leads to simpler circuitry. IMO its a lot easier to have too many transistors :) | |
| The Hub: 2010 CES + THE coverage online Arnie, you may have noticed that we had a recording setup going on in the Lake Mead 1 room; we were recording live musicians and then playing back what was just recorded. In the future it might be interesting to compare what you recorded as oppose... | |
| which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ? Dertonarm, IME LOMCs have a lot of current. So much that if you short them out completely, the sound from the phono section will only be a few db down (and rolled off on top). Most audiophiles don't seem to realize that in exchange for low output ... | |
| What Makes a Good RIAA or Line Stage? That is why stiff regulation and effective Constant Current Sources are a must. IMO, an effective CCS is one that will create immunity to the supply- independent of the fact that the amplification is fully differential. | |
| Tube-amp for Magnepan? Macdadtexas, the thread here is about tube amps, and that's **White** Bear Lake. I mentioned that they are close simply because they have a lot of customers locally and there has been plenty of opportunity to hear them with our gear- we may well h... | |
| which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ? We've specifically avoided using SS input in our tube phono section. Instead, we created the first fully-differential phono stage (1989) as a means to keep noise down. I've tried a variety of SUTs (and never had a hum problem, FWIW). SUTs do offer... | |
| Tube-amp for Magnepan? Magnaplanar is 30 minutes from our front door. Over the last 30 years we've had a lot of experience with them. In fact, our first prototypes were used immediately on Maggies as that was one of the speakers we were using for reference (Tympani 1Us ... | |
| Tube-amp for Magnepan? Maggies are not that hard to drive. The types with the magnets on one side only do have a knee in their power response curve due to the fact that the magnetic field falls off at the square of the distance. Below that knee 50 watts should make them... |