atmasphere
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| Peachtree GaN 1 Beta You have already stated that you thought op amps have no sound (are neutral). This has been refuted by hundreds of posts all over the net. Let us hear your story....if you think I am making up a story about you. Opamps: the more important aspec... | |
| Buzzing from speakers on TT rig ^^ @mofojo Yes, a new wire set would fix it. But a wire attached to the base and run to the chassis of the phono preamp likely would too. If it does not, it means that the wire that goes past the bearings of the arm to the arm tube is broken. Tha... | |
| Peachtree GaN 1 Beta However, that is where you stop. Caddock resistors do not measure better than other low inductance resistors....in fact, they do not sound nearly as good as parallel Nude Vishays.... Caddock has several model lines. The most commonly available ... | |
| Peachtree GaN 1 Beta So, you are clearly stating that changing parts does not matter because you have no test results that show that they do? As long as the amp measures the way you want then it does not matter what part you use? You earlier stated that a LOT of what... | |
| Peachtree GaN 1 Beta Ralph, You have stated a couple or more times now on Audiogon that you can measure parts....here is your latest: "Actually, a lot of the things in the list above do have measurable effects. The trick is knowing what to measure." You have never gi... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @dover Thanks for your comments! Based on your comments i think its very possible that I've not experienced the arm with the right cartridge. It is true that you only need 2 connections for a balanced line; since this would leave the arm tube ungr... | |
| To Tube or not to Tube, that is the question This seems to be a typo, did you mean theST35 is a linear triode? @bruce19 No. The feedback is taken from the speaker terminals and then applied to an early point in the amplifier circuit; in this case the cathode of the input tube. In the ori... | |
| To Tube or not to Tube, that is the question @bruce19 The advantage this amp has over the ST70 is twofold. First, the output transformers (if they are the same design as the original) have better performance. The second advantage is a bit harder to explain but I'll try: Like the ST70 this a... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? The mighty ET2 was left out of that exclusive club. Never owned the Triplanar, but have owned the SME5 and the Graham and still own the ET2. In the ways that matter to me, and with the many cartridges of both the MC and MM variety that I have use... | |
| Compact ~20WPC Tube Amp it is simply using the first section of the 6SN7 as a grounded cathode volt-amp DC coupled to the second triode and then capacitor coupled to the 300B grid. This amp does not do the 300B justice (I’ve built it before). As you know a circuit lik... | |
| Peachtree GaN 1 Beta YOU CANNOT measure the sound of solder, wire, jacks....removing jacks, damping, wire directionality, capacitors, resistor brands, inductor brands, removing noise creating things like fuses and LEDs, adding exotic noise filters, etc, etc. into inf... | |
| Compact ~20WPC Tube Amp Either of them (And other amplifier builders who have similar view) are far more qualified than me to debate this point with you. I can say that their comments make plenty of sense and are backed up by their SET amplifier performance results. I j... | |
| Buzzing from speakers on TT rig @mofojo Its really obvious your tonearm wiring has a bad (and intermittent) ground. Is the arm in warranty? If yes, I'd consider sending it back for repair; you might have to do that anyway... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Raul can be very difficult to translate at times and he has a knack for saying things in what seems to us an adversarial way which he truly does not mean. @mijostyn He also has a knack for saying things in an adversarial way that he truly means... | |
| Peachtree GaN 1 Beta Sometimes you just can't explain why something works when the scientific mind says it shouldn't. I see Picasso and am dumfounded others see his stuff and marvel at it. Audio is like this. @dolfan That was true in 1985 but measurement tech has a... |