clio09
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| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan @prismvineyards I live in Central Napa so I will be sure to do that. | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @docroasty Use the shorting plug if you are using the RCA inputs on the amp. You insert the plug into pins 1 and 3 of the XLR input. | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? @emergingsoul what would you consider those acoustical issues to be? | |
| Bacch Dsp, True stereo? @hifidream thanks for that link. I have a pretty good idea now of the various set up configurations that can be supported. It appears though that the RME interface is a critical piece of the puzzle. Perhaps I am missing something, but it appears I... | |
| Power Tube Matching The RAM EL34s are either from China or Russia. Roger used to purchase large volumes of raw stock from the factories or other sources. Then he would test them and only keep the tubes that tested to his desired specs. The NOS stock EL-34s we carry a... | |
| Power Tube Matching @tonydennison RAM Tubes is the company founded by Roger Modjeski and run by me since his passing. You can find it here: https://www.ramtubes.com/ | |
| Power Tube Matching From that article, it looks like he is saying that the top, 2 digit, number on a tube box will be between 32 to 42. @tonydennison No that is not what he is saying. If you read the very last paragraph Roger wrote Bias is matched within 4% and Gm... | |
| Power Tube Matching Roger Modjeski designed his own proprietary computer tube testers to ensure appropriate matching of power and signal tubes. So here is a tutorial from a very knowledgeable amplifier designer and tube expert: https://www.ramtubes.com/article-5 that... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Good to see the website is back up and the product is available again. | |
| 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. |