atmasphere
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| How loud do you like to play your music? I listen a lot based on the volume that one would expect if the music was live. So with Wagner- peaks around 110, but ELP's first LP I'll have dialed back a bit to peaks at 100-105. Solo guitar is then at 75. In order to play these volumes comfort... | |
| Next step: tube pre or tube power amp? Stevecuss, since your source is a hard drive then you don't really need an integrated since your DAC will provide plenty of output (although you should probably keep the interconnect cables short). Plus your speakers are an easy load for almost an... | |
| MC Load Resistance A slight bit closer to topic... Dertonearm, your description of the difference between hybrid and all-tube cascode is very similar to how I would have described it.There are a number of manufacturers that use semiconductors right at the input of t... | |
| Tube balanced preamp for class D amp? Simontju, as far as we know, Atma-Sphere offered the first balanced line products for high end audio, in the form of a fully-differential balanced-line tube preamp. One of the founders of BAT was a customer of ours before going into business for h... | |
| MC Load Resistance Lewm, FWIW in working with the Jensens we notice more degradation when they are set for the higher stepup ratios and almost none at the lowest stepup. (Jensens have multiple windings that allow a variety of combinations for different stepup ratios... | |
| MC Load Resistance Allen, a peak past 'audibility' will have effects not unlike a tube without grid stoppers, exhibiting oscillation; IOW it can behave as if there is excessive ultrasonic energy. This can cause some preamps (not all) to exhibit excessive ticks and p... | |
| How to fix woofer pumping Putty, if the mechanical resonance of the arm/cartridge arrangement falls outside of 7-12Hz, you will have problems. I don't recall my arm theory all that well but on one side of that window you can get pumping effects. The resonance is a product ... | |
| Tube amp selection- for Magnepan 1.6QR Bob_reynolds, how the ZEROs work is they place the impedance high enough that the peak will not result in additional tube power- it will result in less. | |
| Merlin vsm question Stereo, FWIW Merlins are designed for tube gear. The result is that some of the characteristics of transistors will cause a lean sound in the speaker simply because the speaker design does not anticipate that the amplifier used will double power a... | |
| No preamp 'Balance' control? Balance controls are really tricky to implement, but valuable if done right. Tricky as they can cause degradation of the sound the way a volume control can (loss of detail and bandwidth are the 2 big issues).OTOH if you don't have one, recordings ... | |
| Merlin vsm question Juancgenao, the Merlins are easy to drive and will work fine with your Quicksilvers. They are very revealing and neutral and do not have an excessive footprint. We have a lot of very happy customers using them with our 60-watt amps- I would think ... | |
| Tube amp selection- for Magnepan 1.6QR The Maggies are easy to drive if you have a set of ZEROs.http://www.zeroimpedance.comWe have a good number of customers driving them with our M-60s, using the ZEROs to deal with the impedance (otherwise the speaker has reasonable efficiency and a ... | |
| The Best Tube Amplifiers vs Spectron ? MrT, that is what we did in the old days to develop our reference system- so we could know what the heck we were up to! | |
| MC Load Resistance Dertonarm, I'm not familiar with any MC unit that actually loads correctly at 10 ohms! I imagine that the results might sound like the application of excessive negative feedback, but it is *not* in fact feedback.Even though the Jensen transformers... | |
| MC Load Resistance Dertonarm, the use of the word 'feedback' in your posts above either has a new meaning for the term or else the term is misapplied (language issue). My theory is the latter right now.There is an ideal loading for any inductive audio device wherein... |