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| Class-D amps - a different re view If a room sounds good at a show, I pay attention, but if it does not sound good, I don't let that deter me. I've had my own room sound lousy plenty of times... its really tricky to come into a room, set up a high end stereo and have it sounding co... | |
| Tube amp for rock? Newb Questions Zamdrang, there is a lot of difference between tube amp designs. To get a more dynamic quality (often audiophiles *mean* 'distortion' when they use the word 'dynamic' so I am clarifying that point by insisting that I mean *actual* dynamics), the l... | |
| Tube Amp. Power ratings Porziob, the fact that there are OTLs that can handle four ohms is not a matter of debate. Some 20 years ago, your assertion was common knowledge, but the succeeding decades have produced amplifiers that fly in the face of that. Also, that tubes a... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view Guidocorona, FWIW there is no audible difference between a damping factor of 60 and that of 1000... | |
| Good impedance match for Atma-Sphere MP3? Hi Bill, the MP-3 will drive any power amp made. I wouldn't worry about the input impedance of the amp. | |
| Tube Amp. Power ratings In general you will be noticing more detail with a more relaxed presentation with tube gear. As you noticed, power is harder to make with tubes so they are often less powerful for the money. You have to use a speaker that is designed for tubes- tu... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view I am glad you are withdrawing from "it can be expressed in words, therefore it must be true" kind of logic.From my own perspective I have merely been dealing with what is. I notice audiophiles as hardened as I am, experiencing true rapturous epiph... | |
| Record shops in Minneapolis/St Paul MN Earl Root (Root Cellar Records) is still in business but he is mostly on eBay: rooty is his moniker.Let It Be is still operating on eBay too, although I don't know his moniker.Know Name still has a store front (Richfield on S. Lyndale), as does Tr... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view Muralman1, here indeed is one the bigger issues of forum use in high end audio! We use a lot of the same language in description of system attributes, yet have no way of knowing if we actually mean the same thing with the same depth. So there is n... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view So y'all understand, just because I make tube amps, that does not mean I'm blind to what is happening in the world of class D. I think I made that clear on my first post to this thread.Though Genesis did use a class D amp, it was a far cry from wh... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view Muralman1 and Audioperv, I think the thing to look at is intention. If you start out with a given compromise, and then try to do the best you can, you wind up with something that is very good but with a compromise.In the case of tube amps, comprom... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view Muralman1, being one of those 'tube guys' I have to agree in part with you- this is something (at least for now) that I for one will not admit. IME, class D has a long way to go to beat what I see as the advantages to the amps that we make though ... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view Eldartford, I agree, unless you consider that commutation issues often limit semiconductor switching. A tube can switch at very high frequencies. Of course the idea is pie in the sky, but the point is that the technology is still unfolding and we ... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view We did an evaluation of class D about 2 years ago. At that time the technology was still immature. My guess is that it is still; the best of the class D stuff, while not bad, does not hold up to the state of the art.Yet.It seems to me that tube an... | |
| which Jensen cap to use? Be forewarned that nearly all paper and oil caps can exhibit electrical leakage (i.e. they don't always block 100% of the DC voltage) which can skew the bias voltage of succeeding stages of amplification.They can do this out of the box or after a ... |