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| Cartridge Loading Dertonarm is absolutely correct on this one. BTW I have yet to see a MM that actually loads correctly at 47K. Most are more like half that and I have seen Grados that are closer to 10K. | |
| Can someone give me an explaination re: power amp. Neubilder, I'd be one of those! So far the most accurate speakers I have heard are 98 db 1 watt 1 meter. They go from 20Hz to 40KHz and have the same transparency and detail of the best ESLs but dynamic range no ESL or magnetic planar can hope for... | |
| The Hub: Futterman H3: Seen one lately? It was Cecil Hall that had the first Circlotron patent, although he did not call it that. BTW the Graaf amplifiers use the Hall approach which incorporates the driver circuit into the output section. The Wiggins amplifier got a patent also, and is... | |
| Quad ESLs with Tenor OTL amps The Tenor will work fine with the ESL63s insofar as power is concerned. The ESL 57s will be over-powered and the potential for damage is high if a tube fails. For the the newer Quad designs, you will have enough power but will find the ZEROs handy... | |
| cd player + preamp = too much gain With passive controls you want the control to be as high as possible to prevent coloration from the control and cables.Most CD players do indeed have too much output (as in- way more than is needed to clip any amplifier), and frankly, most fixed a... | |
| The Hub: Futterman H3: Seen one lately? Hi Bill, Just FWIW, our amps, other than being OTLs, are nothing like the Futterman amps. When I went into business making OTLs back in 1977, I rapidly found out that 'OTL' was equated with unreliable. At the time I knew very little about the Futt... | |
| How do you drive 12 Ohm speakers? Macrojack, that resistor likely would be in series with the output of a low impedance amp, not in parallel.Martykl makes a good point too :) | |
| single ended to balanced I've tried 3 and 4 wire connections for headphones- the 4 wire (balanced) definitely sounds better! | |
| Small monitor- made in the states A small monitor that is honest to 40 Hz, extremely fast and revealing and has a very wide sweet spot is the High Emotion Audio P-7. It is under a foot tall and is easy to drive with both tubes and transistors- it has a very flat impedance curve. I... | |
| Magnepan, How Low Can You Go...power-wise The guy that ran the Magnaplar User's Group over on audioasylum.com was adament that the best amp possible for the 3.6/3.8 was our own MA-1.We have lots of customers running our M-60s, using a set of ZEROs. My impression is (for the ones with sing... | |
| Lost that "Tube Magic". Can you help? FWIW the technology **has** advanced over the last 50 years :) In its day, the Scott was a good amp, but if you look at what it cost and then calculate the decline of the dollar's value during that time (about 10:1), you get an idea of the minimum... | |
| Lost that "Tube Magic". Can you help? Eyediver, when you do a serious bit of service to an older amplifier, it takes time for those new parts to break in, and for the disturbances that result from the replacement to settle out. It may be way too late for this but I would advise runnin... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Audioquest4life, first, phase angle and the like is really not part of the discussion- so far. As far as the 802s go, sure, you can make a tube amp drive them and have them sound fine. We have had customers do so in the past. However, that is not ... | |
| Rickie Lee Jones "Pop Pop" I've had Traffic From Paradise on LP since it came out years ago. Its an import- same as Pop Pop. They both have excellent sound- nothing irritating about either one, so long as your arm can track it :) | |
| Building a 300B push-pull / Newbie question If you are on a budget, you have a number of challenges, but if I were you I would avoid amps that use an input transformer if cost is an issue. You can build a phase splitter circuit that if done right can sound better than a transformer for a lo... |