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| What kind of power wakes up electrostatic speakers FWIW, the physics of ESLs do not help solid state amps out. That's why you see so many people saying how you need a big powerhouse amp. Here's why:Most solid state amps will double power as the load is cut in half. What this also means is that the... | |
| Ok....Audiogoners: need some tube amp ideas FWIW Nkj's comments about weight, chassis awkwardness and biasing are red herrings so far as we can tell. This is not the sort of thing I like to harp on but I sent Nkj an email explaining that our amps have been autobias for a while and he denied... | |
| tubes and analog In fact the odd-ordered harmonic generation that is a hallmark of transistors is a feature that runs counter to the rules of human hearing. We all hear the same way in this regard, and is not something that we can change. The odd-ordered harmonic ... | |
| tubes and analog Hi Opus111, of course I do have a 'vested' interest, but I also stand behind what I say, IOW I try to practice what I preach FWIW. I hope that's OK :)Rauliruegas, thanks for your explanation! No worries :)I think Hagtech stated the matter better t... | |
| tubes and analog I am plenty calm Raul, despite your attempts otherwise. And FWIW, my statements are plenty 'fair'... (whatever *that* means :)I have yet to see any of the solid state that you refer to, having been doing CES and the like since 1989 I've been expos... | |
| SET amps and speaker sensitivity. SET- Single-Ended Triode amplifiers are a special class of tube amplifier. They are all class A. Usually the circuits are quite simple- the meat of it is the output transformer, which transforms the impedance of the output tube to that of the spea... | |
| tubes and analog Rauliruegas and Opus111, there is nothing misleading about my statement at all and it is very easy to demonstrate at any level of cost. Raul in particular, your statement does not make a lot of sense. I have to assume that you do not know our equi... | |
| tubes and analog Tubes are able to retrieve greater detail than transistors and they sound more relaxed. Once detail is lost it cannot be retrieved downstream. So consider a tube phono section. | |
| balanced/xlr vs. unbalanced/ single ended If you really want to take advantage of balanced line operation, consider shortening you speaker cables (as short as you can make them) and then run long balanced interconnects.If your setup in fact properly supports balanced line operation, the l... | |
| More power or better quality power? There is a common myth that because the sound emerges from the speakers, that the speakers are the most important. If the speaker is really that good it will reveal everything upstream from it too. The fact of the matter is everything is important... | |
| More power or better quality power? Quality is everything. The ability to reproduce low level detail does not come from brute strength, although its great if you get both at the same time.That 'first watt' concept BTW is important- music is quite dynamic and most of the time your po... | |
| How do tube Watts compare to SS Watts? The reason you hear a lot about tube watts being more effective somehow is due to distortion- tubes make less of the distortions that the human ear finds objectionable- and so *seem* to have a greater percentage of usable power relative to transis... | |
| Break in period Shadorne, are you saying IOW that you hear changes but you attribute them to yourself rather than the gear? | |
| Best Balanced Tube Preamplifier FWIW we've built only balanced tube preamps. As far as we can tell, we are the first manufacturer to make fully differential and balanced all-tube preamps (1989). One of the founders of BAT bought one of the first production MP-1s before BAT was c... | |
| Balanced in phono stages preamp? Hi Herman, not if the voltages are kept the same. That's what the adjustment is for (in this demonstration case).In our production preamps, the grid resistors are tied to ground and for the sake of simplicity, double as the input loading (however ... |