atmasphere
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| which tubes for which genre ? 15465550, the Audience 42 is built for transistor amps in an attempt to get more power into the speaker without affecting its apparent sensitivity. But the speaker can be driven successfully with tubes, and while you will need some power, you do n... | |
| Favorite Speakers at RMAF Dracule1, off the top of my head I imagine it would be about $1250 (including the set up for the paint), based on the work that the paint guys did with the tank on my Laverda :) | |
| Poll - Active vs. Passive preamp Pubul57, if you don't need the gain then that is all there is to that and I would not add any more!There is a classic set of tradeoffs between gain, bandwidth and distortion. The rule is that you don't get all three. We traded off distortion for l... | |
| List : Components with high dynamics In order to understand what is happening with dynamics in audio, it is useful to understand some of the rules of human hearing, in this case, the ear's use of odd ordered harmonic content as loudness cues and the masking principle.Dynamic contrast... | |
| Poll - Active vs. Passive preamp There are already a few active/passive threads here on the 'gon. But I think this is the only poll so far...In my system I have speakers that are 97 db. Depending on the material that I play, I would not have a hope of having enough gain without a... | |
| best phono preamps? Downunder, FWIW although Raul and I do have different viewpoints (mostly: transistors vs tubes...) I respect his position. I hope you understand that in both his case and mine, those things that we talk about seem also to be things that we practic... | |
| Favorite Speakers at RMAF Macrojack, FWIW we have long had a tradition of keeping the cosmetic cost down in our gear. I imagine there are plenty out there who will say that it shows too :) but I've never been a fan of the idea that the cosmetics alone are going to double t... | |
| Unity gain with tube buffer? In this case the tube is driving an output transformer and the step down of the output transformer is why there is little if any gain. The output side can drive 50-100 feet of cable, balanced or single-ended. Yes, it will sound better than a semic... | |
| Favorite Speakers at RMAF Thanks, Dracule1. Yes, we have done custom finishes in the past. We have several options on the power supply panel, which is normally polished. The chassis can be done in a variety of finishes also, but the lead time is usually longer.Nice to hear... | |
| best phono preamps? Jloveys, I do not like to make statements about a competitor's gear. | |
| best phono preamps? Jloveys, the reason for that is that you have to connect the phono section to your power amp, and control the volume somehow. A passive will not suit for this as it will behave as a tone control/dynamic compressor depending on the setting of the c... | |
| 2008 RMAF – – – all things analog. I can point to one thing that no-one seems to be talking about here. If you have a servo system controlling the motor speed, then you will experience a phenomena known as 'hunting'. This is where the servo detects that the speed is off and compens... | |
| best phono preamps? The strength of having the phono section integrated with the line section is two-fold: first, you don't have connectivity issues connecting the phono to the line section (or amplifier), which often results with the interconnect acting as a sort of... | |
| Best of RMAF 2008 Dgad- FWIW we did have 24 bit 192KHz digital in our room on the main floor. The problem this codex is having is that it has no support in a media format, so we were playing the files from a server.Thanks for all the photos! | |
| High End Monitors One of the most transparent monitors I have heard is the S7 made by High Emotion Audio. Right now we are listening to the P7, which took longer to break in, but seems to work as well.They both feature one of the fastest and most accurate tweeters ... |