atmasphere
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| Is it me or new audio gear is too perfect and give ear fatigue? Curious if people feel the same? Ear fatigue is caused by higher ordered harmonic distortion that isn't masked by the music or lower ordered harmonics. Its also caused by intermodulations and aliasing in digital gear (which is intermodulations ... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? Is there a hardcore technical speaker designer in the house? @deludedaudiophile there is- his name is Duke @audiokinesis | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? I would think that the frequency effects of compression would be more worrying than a change in maximum output? @deludedaudiophile Good point and one more problem to add to the list... If the speakers are inefficient, powering them really won'... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? Higher sensitivity is better as long as its not achieved by simply paralleling drivers, resulting in a lower impedance. Lower impedance causes amplifiers regardless of type, to make more distortion. If the speaker is low sensitivity, one common ... | |
| Class D amplifier with TPA 3250 board One thing to watch in these less expensive amps is the bass response. Not unlike what Radio Shack did with some of their lower powered amps back in the early 1970s, a lot of them I've looked at have the low frequencies curtailed- likely for the sa... | |
| Phono stage options - balanced with XLR both input and output... You're mistaken - ARC was building balanced, differential amplifiers and preamplifiers long before the design became popular. The Reference One preamp goes back to the mid-90s, for example. @cleeds Atma-Sphere was the first to offer a balanced ... | |
| Best power amp for Quad 63 The advantage of an OTL on this speaker is due to the very high impedance the speaker has in the bass. This peak is not due to resonance. Solid state amps will throttle back their power into this impedance and so getting the speaker to play bass w... | |
| What's better, one conductor or two conductors for an RCA interconnect? @jumia @kijanki got it right in one. @deludedaudiophile , you are ignoring in your response that an RCA cable with a twisted pair and shield is in fact a coaxial connection. If the cable is very long this doesn't work so well, but in the shorter... | |
| S/N ratio Balanced input vs. Unbalanced input @auronthas The reason your amp is noisier with the balanced input is that the amp itself has a single-ended input; its not internally balanced. So the balanced input goes thru a separate circuit which adds noise. IMO/IME this is a sloppy way of d... | |
| Class D amplifier with TPA 3250 board Folks on another forum I shall not name seem to heavily imply that all amplifiers should sound the same (or very similar). They rave about these cheap tiny Topping/Aiyima amplifiers with class D TPA 3250 amplifier boards. These same boards are us... | |
| STAIN-LESS STEEL.......DYNACO CHASSIS'S......ST-70 and MK III @autospec Will, did you try Marksman? If I were you I'd be looking to Portland or Seattle for someone to made the chassis. That will keep your shipping cost down. You might get a local to do it too but I suspect they are mostly serving architec... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. @oddiofyl Don't do it- that sort of thing leads to fire. | |
| Looking for new/sealed blank high bias type II cassette tapes @chris_g https://www.atrtape.com/#cassette-tape To my knowledge the only cassette tape made in the US made by the premium US manufacturer of tape. | |
| Krell K-300i, RCA vs XLR The integrated is describes as having "fully differential circuitry that runs from the input stage through to the last output gain stage". That would suggest that an XLR connection is superior, but I would like to know if any real-world tests hav... | |
| STAIN-LESS STEEL.......DYNACO CHASSIS'S......ST-70 and MK III @autospec Will, we've done stainless chassis at Marksman in St. Michael, MN Of course you'll need a good drawing, preferably in some sort of computer file, like a DXF. But they can make parts from an actual drawing- don't send it on a napkin :)... |