dgarretson
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| Zero Feedback: Atmasphere vs. BAT This is true. BAT tube amps have liquidity and suppleness similar to SETs. However, IME their paper-in-oil coupling caps slightly blunt dynamics, bass control, and resolution. With a swap to better coupling caps the BAT amps gain in these areas an... | |
| Zero Feedback: Atmasphere vs. BAT The BAT topology is not exactly push-pull, but rather single-ended floating bridge(similar to Atma-Sphere), as described by Victor Khomenko:"The VK60 is neither a traditional single-ended design nor a push-pull design. We refer to the VK-60 throug... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Ait, I am addicted to TX2575 in electronics and believe it to be the cleanest sounding low-power resistor. That said, Duelund graphite resistors are superlative in speaker crossover, exhibiting transparency untypical of carbon comp. or carbon film. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil That's a compelling argument for a simpler crossover or perhaps a Lowther! | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, yes I should be able to switch between 100K and std. 47K loading, or 47K in parallel with 100R. The MM phono stage is a much modded SS ARC PH-2. I can also run the MC cartridges through an Atma-Sphere MP-1 modded similar to lewm. | |
| phono stage options for Lyra Cartridges You should not need a SUT with those cartridges unless your line stage has very little gain. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The above NOS Astatic MF-100 is now in good hands! Any thoughts on the sound of this one? I'm waiting on delivery of a P-mount for the P-76, and will compare both of these MM to a Soundsmith-retipped Helikon and AQ7000Fe5 MC. This should be fun, a... | |
| Speakons anyone Another vote for Cardas posts-- and they are excellent for use with bare wire and foils. However Cardas are inconvenient to install, as a large center hole must be drilled to receive the threaded column that carries the clamping mechanism. | |
| Can even a Novice hear differences in Sound Qualit Now Pettyofficer, in refutation of such nonsense consider that The Truth About De-Evolution (full title: In The Beginning Was The End: The Truth About De-Evolution) was the first music video created by the band Devo. Filmed in 1974, it contains tw... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Merlin VSM is a two-way with a second-order crossover-- one series cap in tweeter section & one shunt cap in woofer section. You can easily hear what the cap in woofer section is doing from 2200hz crossover down to around 30hz. In other applic... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, To move forward with MM collecting I will fabricate a wand for my linear arm with a standard straight removeable headshell into a Technics receptacle. As I have no experience with removeable headshells, can you offer any specific recommen... | |
| Can even a Novice hear differences in Sound Qualit If you are a hiker, you have scaled false peaks that reveal other false peaks before the summit. The big questions of "What does the CD format really sound like?" or "What does vinyl really sound like?" are not answered at the false peaks. Climb t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I have yet to get my old MM cartridges up and running, but it will be fascinating if the cartridge turns out to be the least significant variable in the equation of a modern analog system. In recent years cartridges have seen more price inflation ... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far John Doe and the Sadies "Country Club". Very strong alt. country album with just enough of Doe's slippery blues guitar to quality as rock. Acoustic instruments in natural space & good SQ on YepRoc 180g LP. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Frogman, on P-76 I found that the stylus guard pulls out the stylus if the guard is upside down. I recall reading somewhere that output is around 1.25mV. |