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| Laid Back Speakers amps, players etc I have never associated the term 'laid back' to have *anything* to do with perspective, i.e. the ability to reproduce the correct sound stage width and depth.I would argue that all natural music is 'laid back' as it is absent of artificial loudnes... | |
| Lifespan of Power amps Sirspeedy, the effects of corrosion can be reduced by proper care. The tin plate on a good tube socket for example can reliably last for 30-40 years. OTOH if you store it in the basement or the garage where it can be attacked by humidity or moistu... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Eldartford, of course no-one should be surprised that I don't like transformers :)I did, however, outline some of the difficulties that one faces, bandwidth, ringing (distortion) and hysteresis losses (yet another kind of distortion).You can dance... | |
| Laid Back Speakers amps, players etc Hmmmm, I equate 'laid back' with 'relaxed', 'easy', 'non-fatiguing'... so to have a meaningful conversation the difference in meaning attached to the phrase would have to be overcome first.To me, 'laid back' has nothing to do with a lack of highs ... | |
| Lifespan of Power amps No- connectors, switches and controls are subject to corrosion and transistors can develop leakage and other issues due to the same. There seems to be no free lunch. | |
| What happened to my SET amp? I would check with the manufacturer, but IMO the fuse rating with an amplifier like this should be set (not pun intended) to be just slightly above the AC current draw that the amp has after one hour of operation. You'd have to find that out with ... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Dcstep, to get the right bass out of a tube amplifier the load plays a crucial role as it does with transistors. Klipsch are traditionally tube friendly; with the right tube amp there will not be a solid state amplifier that can rival it on that s... | |
| Graaf Amplifiers Factory closed down We had some idea that the writing was on the wall when the US distributor bought a set of amps from us. | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? I agree with Raul on nearly every point save that of the fact that tubes can work very well indeed with low output cartridges, direct.Rccc, while it is true that there are transformers that were in the signal path in a lot of the recordings you fa... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Tpsonic, the problem is that a lot of really musical cartridges have low output- 0.2mV to 0.3mV. Many tube preamps have troubles with cartridges this low.One of the better SUTs we auditioned was made by Jensen, outstanding in the world of transfor... | |
| Tube amp for "difficult" speakers,,, Hi Mark, the trick to driving Accoustats is being able to deal with the load. A friend of mine had them- wicked low impedance- but we ran them with a set of M-60s and a set of our Z-Music autoformers to deal with the load. They sounded fabulous an... | |
| Lifespan of Power amps Electrolytic Capacitors are a fact of life in amplifiers, tube or solid state. They last about 20-25 years, which is a sort of half-life, IOW about half of them will be bad in about 20-25 years. Unlike radioactive isotopes, though, the rest will b... | |
| What happened to my SET amp? There was an **8 Amp** fuse in it??!The fuse was **way** too high a rating. Pack the amp up and send it back for repair. | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? MC stepup transformers introduce distortion based on hysteresis losses inherent in any inductive device. These distortions will mask a certain amount of detail and it is unavoidable.In addition, the transformer, again like any inductive device, ca... | |
| Looking for a good balanced preamp: Atma MP-3? I've had a few emails regarding this thread so I guess I need to chime in: the MP-3 is fully balanced-differential from phono input to main output. The output is patented, is direct-coupled and the preamp is zero feedback throughout. It employs a ... |