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| The Richard Clark "all amps sounds the same" test Mrtennis is right in his bottom line, and I can add to it: even if you add EQ to make a tube amp and solid state amp 'sound the same' isn't there a tacit admission there that they don't? Huh? I'm sorry, but in this case Mr. Clark has fooled himsel... | |
| Pure class A amplifiers = "slow" amplifiers? Tmhaudio, just a FWIW: the use of silver or a particular alloy in a conductor does not change the speed at which a signal flows through it in the slightest. There are many things that can 'speed up' an amplifier but that is not one of them; if an ... | |
| Questions about Speltz zeros and MA-2 amps Springbok10, I would try it without the ZEROs first. The best info I've been able to turn up on the SP Tech is that as a 4 ohm load it is rather benign, without a lot of weird phase angles and the like. The MA-2 should drive it quite easily. I'd b... | |
| SET or OTL to drive Gallo 3.1's Recommendations? Oceanica1, if you already have a set of the ZEROs, just about any lower-powered OTL will be OK with the load of your Gallos (they aren't *that* hard to drive after all...).A small OTL might make 20-30 watts, which is a lot of power for an SET. Our... | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 The SME, the Graham and the Triplanar all have some sort of arm tube damping (we're not talking about the damping trough BTW). The problem is the the Graham and Triplanar's methods, as far as I can tell, are a lot more effective- adding the arm wr... | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking THK has a patented linear motion slide that is the perfect size for a linear tracker, has low sticktion and guaranteed no bearing slop. All one would have to do is put gimbled bearing and an arm tube, and...I've stayed in the amp side of the busin... | |
| Balanced or Unbalanced? Rafael, I will give it a shot. One immediate advantage of fully differential circuits over single-ended is noise rejection, noise rejection from the power supply, and noise rejection from the input.Power supply noise that is common to both halves ... | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking Like Albert, I've been through a few arms too. I like the *idea* of LT, and have had a few. But- I found myself preferring a uni-pivot (the Graham) and ultimately the Triplanar over that.I still want to see an LT happen though. My feeling is that ... | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 The issue with the SME V is colorations due to mid and high frequency resonance. That is in fact why the 'Analog Survival Kit' was devised by Sumiko years ago. The arm wrap was very useful in reducing colorations that are common with the SME V. Th... | |
| Up grading power amp... Mono blocks or stereo amp? Eldartford, in a power supply with plenty of capacitance the caps are only charging at the peak of the AC input from the wall. At this point the rectifiers turn on and off (commutate) only at the peaks. So you have a spike that is riding on the to... | |
| Balanced or Unbalanced? I'm pretty sure Rowland uses differential circuits :) His was one of the first fully differential preamps to follow after ours.The balanced line system *was* devised to reduce or eliminate interconnect cable differences and problems, but that is n... | |
| Up grading power amp... Mono blocks or stereo amp? The primary argument for monoblocks other than shorter speaker cables (which by itself is a pretty important thing) is that there are no shared power supplies. An amplifier that has separate internal power supplies will be described as 'dual mono'... | |
| Atma-sphere S-30 with Reference 3A? Hi Marty, a lot depends on how old the S-30 was too. The newer amps (or updated older amps) have better power supply stability which makes a big difference in the bass delivery. | |
| lps sound bad Audiofeil, I got rid of the copy I bought new when, after 6 months of searching, I found a replacement that sounded as good as the first. So I only have the inner groove info from that one. If you want it let me know. | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 I've had the SME V and the Graham 2.2 but not the Phantom. The Triplanar was immediately and obviously better than either of the others (with a variety of cartridges too). I've not heard the Phantom yet, but the word is that it is very good, so it... |