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| Balanced Phono question - forgive my ignorance Hi Dave, the early BAT must be one of the few! Most of the phono sections I've seen with a balanced output are also balanced in.TD, There is a way to run balanced operation from RCA jacks from a tone arm, provided the tone arm ground is on a seper... | |
| Anybody familiar with Mundorf silver&oil caps The more system resolution you have, the more you hear bypass caps smearing the sound due to their different speeds. Instead you want to get the best cap you can to give it your best shot; frankly if I were you I would get a set of V-Cap Teflons t... | |
| Balanced Phono question - forgive my ignorance Dgarretson's response is correct except for what looks like a typo:However, some phono stages not balanced all the way through have true-balanced output sections. In this case you will benefit going XLR from phono to pre.I think the word 'not' goe... | |
| Best Preamp = No Preamp? One thing that people don't always realize is how important it is for the preamp to control the interconnect cable between the preamp and amp. Passives cannot do that, but a good preamp can, if there is intention to do so in its design! | |
| what's 'Active preamp' vs 'Passive preamp'? Eandylee, most volume controls that are in DACs are not of the best quality- particularly if they are digital. Digital volume controls essentially subtract bits to lower the volume; the result is audible loss of resolution as you turn the volume d... | |
| 35 watts in Ultralinear vs 50 watts in Triode When you have an amp that can switch between modes, one thing is for sure: the triode mode will not actually reflect the sound and performance of real triodes. For that you will have to use an amp that is actually built with triodes which will dem... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object There is also the idea that in pursuit of the 'best' (IOW the state-of-the-art) that the designer must sort out what it is that allows for foot-tapping *and* good specs! But then at the same time there is the issue of taste. I found out about 25 y... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object The problem here is that the audio industry in general has been lying for a very long time- decades. If a manufacturer, dealer or distributor's lips are moving, he's lying. Seems like everyone says they have the 'best' and the English language bei... | |
| 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... |