clio09
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| A Black Box to Solve Everything @bdp24 Yes a preamp and a reasonably easy kit to build. Nelson is brilliant with solid state devices and while Ralph and Roger are/were known for their brilliance with tubes, Ralph has now demonstrated he can manufacture a solid state amp with sim... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything Nelson Pass's DIY Nutube preamp kit allows for adjustment of distortion. Here is a description from the design document: "The attraction of the Nutube in an audio circuit is the Triode character, allowing adjustment of the distortion by operating... | |
| Budget preamp with quality volume control Music First Audio is a subsidiary of Stevens & Billington which is why their products use those transformers in their design. When S&B used to let people use the transformers for DIY and OEM John Chapman at Bent Audio built a very nice pas... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing I love my MA-1 amps, and have learned to live with them, using NOS tubes, turn them off after listening, and so on. The best advice I got from Ralph was to match them with optimal speakers. I would say that advice applies to any amplifier. | |
| Amplifier circuitry-4 ohm vs 8 ohm @charles1dad regarding light loading, which Roger felt benefited all of his amps. the following is taken directly from the Music Reference RM-10 manual: "The amplifier is flat within 0.1dB and has low distortion of 0.3% when played below clippin... | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp I have used a Music Reference RM-10, Music Reference OTL-1, Atma-Sphere M-60, Berning ZH-70m and currently Atma-Sphere Class D. | |
| 6DJ8 vs. 6922? The Suitability Of The 6DJ8 For Audio | |
| Larry Moore Monaco schematic Scroll down this thread, you will see his contact information, but I am not sure it is current: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/1635-larry-moore-of-ultra-fi/ Here is his profile on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrydmooreeejd Y... | |
| Tube amps - what 3 things… I agree with the previous comment on transformers being the most important component. Until they aren't. Tube amplifiers with output transformers, regardless of how good they are wound are not as transparent as their OTL or direct drive counter... | |
| Decware and “The List” Not sure why, but it appears the OP edited their original post from a longer story about being on the list and having to cancel their order to this two word version. | |
| Tube amps - what 3 things… I have an allnic in the house now and need to adjust bias every time I switch it on - is this normal? @mpoll1 No it is not. Are you allowing the amp to warm up for 15 minutes or so before checking bias? Bias should be pretty stable once it is s... | |
| New Class D amplifiers If Aavik agreed to provide one it could be last. At 2-3 times the MSRP it should win. ...and therein lies the problem. | |
| MC for Low Mass Tonearm I agree with what @lewm says. I have an Grace F9e with the original stylus and the Soundsmith Ruby upgraded stylus, also an original F9e Ruby. The Soundsmith stylus is the better of the 3. I also have a Soundsmith Carmen II and the F9e/Soundsmith ... | |
| What's the best EL84 amp? @pinthrift We're around to fix the Music Reference amps but will no longer touch them if they have been modified or have had unauthorized parts used in them. The latter would include after market "boutique" fuses. For the record Roger updated the... | |
| What's the best EL84 amp? @dhcod Well you would have had to jump on the 405 so doubt we passed each other. At the time I lived in Santa Barbara 3 miles from Roger :) I have the only remaining pair of ESLs with the direct drive amps. One of these days I’m going to have to h... |