fleschler
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| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? My 70 watt Class A EAR 890 has 8 itty bitty storage capacitors while my 130 watt Class A/B monoblocks have huge 3" X 7" pair of storage capacitors each. The McIntosh MC30 sounds like it is 3X or 4X more powerful than it’s rated. My voltage regulat... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? Well, I have had some quite powerful small Class A/B amps which deliver 2-3X their rated power. Not only that, but they are about 3X to 5X as powerful on a wattage rated basis as many solid state amps.The earliest amps to sound super dynamic is th... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? Wasn't the XA25 the amp with superlative technical reviews? Thanks for the info. | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? Excuse me, but what is an F5 amp? I can't find it in this thread. I found excessive global negative feedback is also not my preference. I like the VAC Class A/B amps with 6 db of same. | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? That's where you are 100% incorrect. That Dynaco is NOT a typical unit. It has been modified to have superior control of deep bass. My friend Robert Pincus and Audiogon poster Oregonpapa know how powerful my little Dynaco amp is. It is not as r... | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? jspohn - I own an EAR 890 70w Class A zero feedback amp. It does not have sufficient power for my Legacy Focus speakers which has a tough impedance and 6-12" woofers. My highly modified Dynaco ST 70 with 30w Class A/B kills it on the focuses (tr... | |
| Buy a pair of ten year old $40,000 speakers for $4,000 or new ones at that price point? My 25+ year old Legacy Focus speakers are still being made, with higher quality parts, for $13,000 while used older pairs go for $2-3,000. However, the older units sound better. Same with the Legacy Signature IIIs, selling for $1-2,000 (foam ... | |
| Most useful tweaks that are sensible and really make a noticeable improvement I've been using Herbie's tube dampers for several decades on 12AX7, 12AU7, 6SN7 and 6DJ8s. They have no negative effect on the sound and the sound is better with them on. I have also used a pair of tight rubber/silicone rings from Sandy Gross fr... | |
| What brand was better than it is today? I have a half dozen Sherwood 7100/7100A, Yamaha CR620 receivers that work just fine. I suspect current electronic equipment built to mid-fi standards should last a long time as well. The parts quality have improved once you have electronics reta... | |
| What brand was better than it is today? Nearly every vacuum tube manufactured today is inferior to the originals, many from the 40's and 50's. They had secret metallurgy that is not available in today's tubes. Also, the manufacturers of most tubes have inferior quality control and tec... | |
| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. I have some great early stereo 50's R2R that slay the LPs and CDs. George Wrights' Razz Ma Jazz on Audio Fidelity, Red Norvo Quintet Naturally and the Hi-Lo's on a pre-Columbia tape Amazing clarity and dynamics. | |
| Opinions and recommendations on active loudspeakers I agree with Lonemountain's choices of great rock albums. I think Pretzel Logic is as good as AJA based on my copies. I guess I haven't heard a great Led Zeppelin LP pressing yet. | |
| Speaker upgrade question - Wilson vs Focal I read on the stereo-magazine issue 20 technical review that the Mino has a DC resistor at 4 ohms but is nearly ruler flat 5 to 7 ohm speaker at 89.4 db SPL. Looks easy to drive with a 130 w. tube monoblocks. Also, it is -3db at 37Hz. My new audi... | |
| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. I don't know why radio stations play poor sounding 78s, even acoustically recorded pre-1925. I have 7,000 78s, 100,000+ on CDs and LPs superbly remastered and they sound fine within their sonic limitations. As to the Masterlink, it is an adequat... | |
| Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’ I have a dozen E-Mats installed on equipment and power panels. I kept all SR 32 HFTs, SR fuses in my amps and SR power outlets. I rejected the SR black box because it cut off frequencies about 8Khz and shrunk the soundstage. The SR Atmosphere X... |