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| SET the best? Phaelon, SETs are usually not very powerful. A big one is 15 watts, maybe 20. If you really want to hear what they do, the speaker has to be efficient enough that you never bring the amp anywhere near full power. At full power, the THD is often ab... | |
| cd player - xlr output buzzing Check and see how the adaptor is wired. Sometimes if pin 3 is left floating, the result is a buzz. So the adaptor should have pin 2 tied to the center pin of the RCA, pin 1 of the XLR tied to the RCA ground, and pin 3 of the XLR tied to pin 1 of t... | |
| SET the best? Saki70, the speaker should be designed for tubes. Seehttp://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.htmlfor more information.I spent a few months tinkering with some 45-based SETs that I inherited last year. In analyzing the circuit, I realized... | |
| Sudenly silence I'm not buying any of Newbee's comment. Such a scenario is quite unusual.Have you checked any of the fuses? That would be the first place to look. | |
| Passive preamp vs. powered Phaelon, quite simply, it sounds to me as if you are after the truth. That is very different from not liking imaging, its all about getting as close to real as possible. Part of the issue of course is hearing recordings made in the spaces that you... | |
| Passive preamp vs. powered Mrtennis, it is true there are those who do not like imaging, bass extension, smoothness or clarity. I've met them, but generally I find that I don't care for their opinions as they are so far from reality. It is my opinion that the more it sounds... | |
| Passive preamp vs. powered Up to this point my comments have been directed at Passive Volume Controls. TVCs are another matter- if done properly they solve a lot of the issues that PVCs cannot address; I think they represent far greater bang for the buck than PVCs.So it is ... | |
| Passive preamp vs. powered Rleff, It is the interaction between the cable, the source resistance (which is a combination of the passive control and the actual source, including the cable from the source to the passive) and the input impedance of the amp that creates the bas... | |
| Who OWNS Zu Audio Speakers- Especially Definition BTW there is a 30-ohm version of the Definition that works great with smaller tube amps- its a bit more transparent, not for any other reason than tube amps like the higher impedance and so have less distortion, which translates to transparency. I... | |
| Passive preamp vs. powered If the designer of the preamp line stage has done his homework, that preamp will sound better than any passive made. Passives cannot control the interconnect cable and that is one thing that a good line section **can** do (although not all preamp ... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Preamplifier Pedrillo, I would expect that any balanced preamp, tube or solid state, should drive any balanced power amp made. I would not worry about that! | |
| What phono preamps are balanced Pedrillo, I ran my Graham in balanced mode. Pin 3 of the tone arm connector is ground. I was able to use the same cable that I did for my SME V. | |
| Are 6as7g tubes becomming harder to find? Hiendmmoe, the importer of Russian 6AS7Gs got to be too difficult to deal with. We saw the price double in a 3 month period several times. The Chinese 6AS7G has been in production for the same length of time (since the early 1960s). All the Chines... | |
| How to convert VPI turntable to banlanced? Mordante, no worries. FWIW, though, I don't think people buy our stuff because its tubes. They seem to be buying because its transparent and neutral. Also, the preamps were designed as stand-alone phono reproducers. They have the bare minimum to m... | |
| Linestage needed Richard, are you needing the balanced feature? |