atmasphere
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| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Problem is that they also require a very large ss amp upstream to drive them. Something that can push a lot of current, which pretty much rules out most low-mid ( maybe even high) powered tube amps. When I mentioned this to the person doing the d... | |
| Audible High Pitched Hum... Advice Needed @ajnackman Why do you have the streamer grounded to the same place as the phono? That's a recipe for a ground loop. Won't the streamer work without grounding it? | |
| Preamp - what's the purpose? either is ok, modified sound with pre or pure sound with no pre. once you feel pure taste with no sauce, you will remove the preamp! @r27y8u92 I have LPs and CDs I recorded. I find that using a preamp gets me more neutral sound as the preamp i... | |
| Are your record surfaces as silent as CDs? Technically, vinyl can only give you about 60db S/N exclusive of the pre-amp (although different vinyls these days provide somewhat better that that) @pcolvin Actually LP surfaces can be quite a bit lower noise than that. Acoustic Sounds found ... | |
| Excellent Solid State or Hybrid Monoblocks Recommendations I suspect that the gan fet is a chunk of this progress assuming it is well implemented. I am gonna pick up some class D monoblocks in the near future..... @jaymark What GaNFETs bring to the table is low noise. You really do want a class D amp ... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? Should spatial perception x what you describe differ for, say, bass in outdoor setups (I am sorry - I realize this is slightly tangential from the OP query)? @benanders Outdoors we can sort out where bass notes come from. But in most rooms indoor... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? is this statement meant to rule out bass as being important to listener perception of soundstage? @benanders Yes. Bass (20Hz to about 150Hz) is important if you want to get the tonality right but it has little to do with imaging and sound stage... | |
| Preamp - what's the purpose? Sitting a few meters away from my loudspeakers, the first watt alone gives me roughly 80db of volume. I think these amps are biased to expect the line level signal directly. Why wouldn't the designer do that? So what's the point of adding a pre-... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? I have a pair of Thiel CS6 speakers that dip to around 2 ohms in part of the frequency spectrum. I run them with a Krell KSA 300S that doubles its power down to one ohm (300 watts @ 8 ohms, 2400 watts @ 1 ohm). When I took the amp in for recappin... | |
| To loom or not to loom? So I must ask as a mfr of both tube and GaN amplification what have been your experiences and are their brands and types of cables you prefer. @audio_is_subjective64 Because we made the first balanced line preamps and amps for home use it didn’... | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers @izjjzi I can't speak for other class D designs. The sound varies from one class D to another more than it does with class A amps or tube amplifiers- IOW quite a lot. But I know how our stuff sounds. For reference I use LPs and CDs that I recor... | |
| To loom or not to loom? Should I look at consolidating each system to a specific brand and model of cables or is this a fool’s errand? @audio_is_subjective64 I’m going with fool’s errand. For speaker cables the right cable varies with the amplifier and loudspeaker. Y... | |
| VPI Prime Sig/Lyra Delos / Feedback ...help! So I just bought a 2" butcher block that's (solid AF) & 4 IsoAcoustics pucks, @tommypenngotti Just so you know, a 2" butcher block doesn't do much to kill vibration. If you bonded it to a substantial slab of marble or Corian (or other diss... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? @rrm Two things: lack of phase shift and aural effects having to do with the 2nd and 3rd harmonics, the latter of which can make an amp seem more detailed and spacious. | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers My question is, why? I do not think other amps are embellishing the sense of power and scale. I am wondering what it means that GaN is not accomplishing the same? Is it more accurate? Controlling the drivers too well? The sound is as good as ... |