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| What are the treasures in your vinyl library? Voyage 34 original (not the reissue!) by Porcupine Tree'Ear' album by Global CommunicationsS/T Emerson Lake & Palmer, pink Island originalVaughan Williams, Symphony #6 w/The Lark Ascending, 'half dog' EMIFurtwangler, 4 Last Songs w/Kirsten Fla... | |
| Need list of 92db speakers and above. I'll second the Zu Druids although technically they are a 2-way.Checkout the Lowther America site too. They also have a budget line of drivers that look pretty cool:http://www.nirvanaspeakers.com/nirvana.html | |
| Stand-alone phono amps? FWIW The MP-1 MkIII and the MP-3 preamps are both built with the intention of being a stand-alone phono preamp with volume control. There has been enough passive circuitry interjected prior to the final stage of gain so that gain stage/output buff... | |
| what makes a tube sound the way it does? Tubes overload easily. Tubes sound nice in overload. They act like a compressor.I gotta comment here: transistors and tubes overload equally easily. Neither has any particular dynamic range over the other. The rest of the above quote is true of tu... | |
| What do the different tube amp types mean? As far as sound goes, triodes sound the best but make the least power. Class A also sounds the best, but makes the most heat.Ultra-linear is an attempt to get a pair of pentodes to behave a little more like triodes, without sacrificing too much po... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Thanks! | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Audiobb, This is an interesting speaker- it seems like it has a dual woofer system, but apparently the second woofer is on a different circuit.So that would seem to make all the circuits 8 ohms. I would check with Silverline on this to be sure.Ask... | |
| Tube amps and speaker ohms Hi Gregm, you might ask Nelson Pass or Charlie Hanson of Ayre, both of whom make zero feedback designs. FWIW, negative feedback is a *destabilizing* feature in amplifier design, not a stabilizing one. This is a common misconception about feedback.... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Audiobb, I play heavy metal too and I also have a few friends in the heavy metal world and I opened for Therion when they toured here a couple of years ago. The start and stop of a Kick drum is *way* too slow for any sort of stop and start that mi... | |
| Reliability on Tubes Amplifiers and Prevention In hand wired amps (which do indeed last longer, especially in tropical environments) the wiring is not soldered to the tubes. Just thought I ought to clear that up.In a hand wired amp, the tube socket pins can move more freely, allowing the tube ... | |
| Hum from Atma-Sphere MP-1 Power Supply? It could also be the power supply cover. We've seen some of the covers resonate on older MP-1s that have had power supply updates without the transformer being updated. It does not mean that the transformer is bad, but it can cause the cover to vi... | |
| Tube amps and speaker ohms Normally the tube is a self harmonic generator ( that does not exist on the original signal/recorded signal )Raul, I would have thought you would have educated yourself better before making such an obviously false statement! You are in a lot more ... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Damping factor does not play much of a role in the sound of a speaker, previous posts notwithstanding! In fact damping factor is really a spec that gets touted a lot, but would seem to be mythological in its effects.Damping factor is a means of ex... | |
| Tube amps and speaker ohms The point of the topic was to ask the GENERALIZED question that tube amps prefer 8 ohm speakers(though even 8 ohm speakers can dip to 4 ohms on huge orchestral challenges).The answer to that is 'yes!', regardless of the tube amplifier technology. ... | |
| question about switching, Class D, and Class A David, class A is the purest form of amplification, be it tube or transistor, known to man. All other forms are compromises that have nothing to do with sound quality, and everything to do with heat.If you choose your system based on the heat it m... |