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| Tube amps that kick ass? Hi Keith, our email server has been down the last 2 days, so I will answer your question here:Most of our Vandersteen 5/5A customers run the MA-1- and they say its spectacular! It appears that the M-60 should be able to drive the speaker too (the ... | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Jj2468, if treated with care, old tapes can have excellent fidelity even if made in the 1950s.Ken, I use a sort of commercial timer oven for making pizzas, which works extremely well since it takes a while to warm up. I've also used my oven at hom... | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? I can name two: High Emotion Audio, which has one of the fastest tweeters ever made (which is also quite relaxed at the same time) and the Classic Audio Loudspeaker equipped with field coil drivers. It shares the high speed/relaxed qualities of th... | |
| Tube amps that kick ass? Just for the record, 'Solid, tight bass' does not describe real bass- that sort of description makes me think of transistor bass, which is to say it has punch but no definition. If you want definition, you have to have tubes.A lot also depends on ... | |
| SET vs OTL Hi Marty, most people with VSMs usually go with the M-60. They have enough power to really make the speaker sing. | |
| SET vs OTL Marty, I understand what you are saying. I want the amp to play what is good in a recording, and with the poor recordings, not get upset by artifacts in the recordings. In other words, forgiving? -but without giving up anything to resolution. Its ... | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Sticky tape does not need to be a problem!Old tape can be 'baked' at 150 degrees for about 30-40 minutes to get rid of the sticky/shedding issues. It can then be used for years before having to be 'baked' again. You can leave it on the reel as lon... | |
| Phono stage hiss from BOTH SS and Tube Normal? Anything that can amplify will also have a noise artifact.The fact that you get noise when you turn the volume all the way up is not significant unless you also play the system at that volume setting. | |
| SET vs OTL Martykl, one thing about SETs that makes them quite different from OTLs is the way their distortion signature interacts with the human ear/brain system. SETs tend to have very low distortion at low power, but on transients, where the power occurs,... | |
| SET vs OTL The Merlin needs a little more power than most SETs can produce, if you really want to hear what the speaker or the SET is capable of. With that speaker, hands down an OTL will do better. | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Hi Pedrillo, that's a loaded question- the answer is that a table is better if you have direct-to disc. Otherwise, tapes **stomp** on LPs.IMO, the best tape machines will have an all-tube signal path. You can set up almost any transport to work wi... | |
| SET vs OTL Paul, I like the type 45 tube a lot too. Not many speakers that will work with a 45 SET though. I am using a set of Coral Betas, which are fine as long as you don't expect any volume.Larryi, We've been doing this over 30 years now and all our amps... | |
| SET vs OTL Paulfolbrecht, since you asked- in our amps there is only one stage of gain, not two. Most SETs I've seen have either two or three. This is because there is usually some gain in the output, while in our amps there is none.Crossover distortion, FWI... | |
| SET vs OTL The harmonic structure of a good OTL will be the 3rd harmonic, which the only harmonic that the ear considers musical and thus does not object to. SETs have that and the 2nd harmonic.Paul, what happens with these harmonics is not that they are not... | |
| SET vs OTL Aarif, removing distortion never causes an amplifier to have fake neutrality.OTLs have an economy of scale- the bigger you make them, the more efficient they can run. A big OTL that can make 200 watts will very likely be comfortable on 4 ohms, som... |