atmasphere
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| Preamps can color sound considerably. Surprising? when compared to a good passive, it's just no contest. I've tried many passive preamps, thinking "that must be the answer". It isn't--they are all dry and flat. Passive Volume Controls are very susceptible to interconnect cable interactions... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? the real deal breaker for me was the strain gauge's tracking ability. Peter thinks he has got it as good as he can and feels it is acceptable. Generally I will only look at cartridges that can do 80um or better at 315Hz. Miss-tracking is very ann... | |
| Looking For The Best Pre-Amp Match For A Pair of Classe Omega Amplifiers @mspot Yes. FWIW supporting AES48 at the input of an amplifier is fairly easy. The concern is not having to listen to interconnect cables to get the 'sound' right. If AES48 is supported its plug and play; one of its goals is to eliminate interconn... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I auditioned the strain gauge at Peter's listening room. He spent two hours with me. I really wanted to like the strain gauge but it was just too sharp on female voices and violins for my taste. @mijostyn To my understanding the Soundsmith Stra... | |
| Looking For The Best Pre-Amp Match For A Pair of Classe Omega Amplifiers I just want a high quality pre amp with excellent volume control, balanced outputs, and remote control capability. If you want to get the most out of balanced operation, with whatever preamp you look at, ask if it supports AES48, the balanced l... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing Maybe we should ask @atmasphere ? And avoid descending into extension cords, which have nothing to do the power cords on these amps... Power cords affect audio equipment due to voltage drops occurring at 60Hz but also at much higher frequencies... | |
| Reminder: how to tell current from an amp's specs? I can't believe there is even a debate about this. It is well known that driving a speaker that has a variable impedance curve that dips below 4 ohms with an amp that cannot produce the appropriate current at the low impedances will change the fr... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Also recognize there are some things that are either unmeasurable or not yet measured. The words of Daniel Von Recklinghausen come to mind. They apply directly to this conversation. As I mentioned, something is driving LP sales. If the digital ... | |
| Reminder: how to tell current from an amp's specs? The REGA Osiris integrated amp is one of these exceptions. While it is a beefy hi-current and high WPC amp that doesn’t fully double down, it still has LOTS of current because of its high-end build and design. This is provided by those four Sanke... | |
| Reminder: how to tell current from an amp's specs? Let me ask it this way. I've repeatedly read that some speakers, notably Maggies, thrive on high current amps. @northman It really doesn't work that way. What is important is if the amp can drive the load with its rated power. If it can't obv... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? digital is more accurate. There can be no doubt about this. It is superior in every and all measurable parameters. This says nothing about "sounding better." Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. Something is keeping current LP sales on the r... | |
| Bookshelf speakers that renders 3D soundstage Fritz Loudspeakers could suit. Well built, good bass extension, reasonably priced, very spacious. | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing Amplifier design and amplifier performance has been dictated by the limitations of loudspeakers. There is no perfect amplifier because there is no perfect loudspeaker. [snip] Think of an amp as a complimentary solution to a problem elsewhere i... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing You have side-stepped your bold declaration that tube amps, the entire category bar none, are on their way out. @fsonicsmith That was not my intent. To my understanding I've not side-stepped this issue at all: IMO power tubes are on life suppo... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Hereby Resolved These Resolutions: Resolved The best cartridge will be the one that matches the tonearm in use, in this case the Triplanar, since the ability of the tonearm to track the cartridge is paramount to the cartridge, which is penultimat... |