atmasphere
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| An Audiophile's journey I want an amp that is not speaker dependent.Ah, the holy grail... so far, there is no such thing. | |
| An Audiophile's journey Twoleftears, I too have been of the opinion that the rise of SETs had a lot to do with bad digital. In the meantime, SETs established themselves quite apart from that.Although I have heard some very nice class D, I have yet to hear one that is on ... | |
| Single driver speakers - opinions So far no-one has mentioned PHY or Fertin, both from France. These drivers are arguably the cream of the crop in high efficiency 'full range' drivers. The PHY is featured in the Ocellia loudspeaker, one of the few that can really get down to 40Hz ... | |
| Atma-Sphere S-30 MK3 Maril555, we did run into some problems with silver-plated wire and it was both brightness *and* dullness! A lot seems to depend on the wire- its gauge, how its extruded, purity, the thickness of the silver plate, etc. We've heard some that are ju... | |
| Atma-Sphere S-30 MK3 I suppose I should clarify a few things, after some emails I got regarding this thread.With regard to options: Being audiophiles ourselves, and inveterate tinkers, we know the temptation to look under the hood and see what can be hopped up. That's... | |
| Which part reduces surface noise most? Joelv, if you saw the earlier thread from June, although the stylus profile does a lot, any ticks and pops it picks up are going to be part of the signal. It is the interaction between the preamp and the cartridge that will 'put the noise in anoth... | |
| Quads vs Sound Labs vs Maggie 20.1 The Quad 63s are great if you want fabulous transparency but have some budget constraints. They are easy to drive with most tube amplifiers; transistors will be bright and free of bass.The big Sound Labs (I guessing- U1s? A1s?) are harder to drive... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Robert Fulton founded the modern interconnect and speaker cable industry- before him there was no-one. Of course he was thought of as a snake oil salesman, but many of his claims are now borne out by the continued existence of the cable industry i... | |
| Most transparent amp you've heard? Sean and Pubul57, if transparency is what you crave (lack of distortion, I'll get to that in a bit), then it is to your advantage to keep the impedance of the speaker as high as possible. This is true regardless of the amplifier technology, tube, ... | |
| Cartridge aging and tip wear symtoms? Diamonds wear very slowly! By the time a diamond would have any significant wear, you would have noticed mistracking *long* before! Record wear is primarily caused by mistracking- but rarely by a worn stylus! Far more common issues are poor tone a... | |
| MBL alternatives If you are looking for wide-angle dispersion, the High Emotion Audio speakers like the S7 have a tweeter that is really amazing- the 90-degree off-axis response is nearly the same as straight on! It is also one of the fastest tweeters I've heard. | |
| What Makes a Good RIAA or Line Stage? Years ago the Library of Congress did a study; they concluded that any laminated media was not/is not servicable as an archival media. IOW any laminated media would fail within years or 2 decades at the most.Non-laminated (amorphous) media is pref... | |
| High efficiency speakers You might try the Classic Audio Reproductions if you have the budget: 97db 1 watt/1 meter, 16 ohms, 20Hz-45KHz and the 20Hz is bona-fide. I have found very little to complain about in this speaker: the resolution (with the field coil drivers) equa... | |
| Tone controls- to use or not? The Accuphase that I used was the DG-28 digital room correction unit. It wasn't cheap either! The analog unit, once set to the same settings, sounded better (nor was it cheap; for either unit you could have bought 3 or 4 Behringers). I know that p... | |
| Tone controls- to use or not? Eldartford, I have yet to hear a Behringer that I'd want to put in my system! All of them I have heard so far are easily surpassed by other manufacturers for not a lot of extra money. My impression so far is that they target the entry-level semi-p... |