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| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Roger wrote,"The most startling aspect of the analog "jitter" is how bad it is compared to other destructive forces caused by the physical world. The unstable velocity in the amplifier happens at nano-scopic levels (far below measurable levels). B... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? mapman12,877 posts02-27-2016 10:09pmHmm machina dampica? Got a nice ring to it. Thank you Mask Man | |
| Vibration Control for Lightweight Tube Components Gee, funny no one mentioned Herbies tube dampers for all tubes, rectifiers, 6SN7s, 12AX7s, you name it. Would you believe two dampers per output tube and rectifier often sounds better than one? One on the glass, the other on the base. Yeah, I know... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Tom wrote,"Oh GeoffDirect mechanical coupling ..no bed springs in between no rubber in between.Matching material speed and material shape is a part of maintaining signal continuity. Maintains Dynamica instead of reducing Dynamica."Sorry, my way is... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Tom wrote,"Geoff, If you took your Machina Dynamica and direct coupled all of them they'd be more Dynamica." That's what I did. I direct coupled all of them. HEL-loo! Do you think I fell off the potato truck yesterday? no goats, no glory | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Tom wrote,"After you took the time to learn the technique of direct mechanical coupling of transformers, caps, circuit boards and output devices you would then hear a huuuuge benefit versus the same components when damped or constrained. (Terribly... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? PT Barnum quotes“Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.” “WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a ston... | |
| Yoga blocks for isolation Mapman wrote,"Yoga blocks would seem to be well suited as isolation devices. . Can't hurt to try."Actually they don't seem well suited as isolation devices at all. Maybe you meant to say coupling devices. Perhaps you might also think hockey puck... | |
| Back wall treatment? A Skyline diffuser behind the head up on the wall is the best and most reliable product for this problem. Obviously there are a great many room acoustics issues that should be dealt with as best one can from slap echo to standing waves especially ... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Tbg wrote,"So vibrations being drained seem to be important to sound also."nobody ever said they weren’t. You have to isolate and dissipate. You can also damp. I wrote about the importance of damping the top plate of isolation devices twenty years... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Mapman wrote,"All the good engineers i know think out of the box all the time. All the the tech talk nobody can understand has no meaning obviously. The product will live or die on its value proposition and sonic merits like all do. I agree with a... | |
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| Moto_Man's Scam Of The Week Stick a fork in it, this thread is done. It's a new week. Time for a new scam exposé. | |
| Helmholtz Resonators Dentdog wrote,"Exactly what I’m facing. I have an alcove about 4’ by 5’, 7’high behind the left side of my listening position, full of deep bass. I have tri-trapped both corners but this situation persists. As I see it my options are either a Scop... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? Roger wrote,"I have done this with top EE’s in the government. It went right over their heads."With top EEs in the Government? And it went over their heads? Surprise, surprise. "What does that tell you? That I’m a genius? No. Just that I did the h... |