georgehifi
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| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume Yep, let’s go full circle and get dizzy again, just ditch the AR and use the A30 the way it was meant to be used. And if you don’t like what the source is giving then, change it instead. | |
| An Odd Question Sonic impact of having multiple (3) acoustic guitars on stands in your listening room? To kill off most sympathetic resonancesPut a soft clamp across all the strings, and block off the sound hole in the bodies.Cheers George | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume Here is another alternative, leave the A30’s volume up full, or again better still take it and the input selector out, and replace it with a 100kohm resistor to ground. And then get full 6db shaved off the AR preamp’s gain, by a tech to do this. P... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume @Georgehifi do not see in any review of the A30 R what you comment as a novelty https://ibb.co/J7fFmwm Puresound A30R https://ibb.co/mX2M6CM | |
| Goldenear Triton One.R - can it be driven with low power tube amp? Goldenear Triton One.R - can it be driven with low power tube amp? Don’t think so https://www.stereophile.com/images/1119GET1Rfig1.jpg Stereophile There is still a combination of 4 ohms and –48° at 100Hz, which will require a good 4 ohm–rated amp... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume Just found this, the newer Puresound A30R model which among other things like 2 power tranies, now also sports a new 4th input call "fixed" This suggests to me now it can be used as a "proper poweramp" with the volume control and input switching o... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume The worst area of rolloff is typically around the middle of the control range That will be for linear pots, with logarithmic pots it’s more like 1-2 o’clock as we have here with a 100kohm "A" taper pot. If this amp were to used as a poweramp, it w... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume Whatever, Ralph's told you as well, you can see the forest for the trees, and not worth the effort. | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume I would like to know your opinion and if you consider its high output volume a problem with this power amp. AR SP 8 mk2 Problem is the volume control is too low, Very sensitive amp. I can’t use much volume control.Does this affect the signal ... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume @georgehifi Do you think I’m lying when I say that I like what I hear when I connect the AR? Not in the least, but you started this thread asking for answers to your high gain problem, you now have them and don’t care to look at what’s said here,... | |
| Phone stage and Preamp gain question Highest volume position, is always better as your using more of what the source is supplying, instead of shunting part of it down to ground, just so the tube gain stage after the volume control can make it back up again. If you have enough gain (v... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume @Georgehifi I will not make decisions because they are necessary to respect the Nelson Pass Bible. I'm saying that the easiest cheapest way out of your high gain predicament, with "gods" recommendation to back it up. Unless you want to have sou... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume BTW I do not recommend tampering with the feedback resistor- such things can lead to oscillation tenoris OP This is why I say get a tech (not yourself) to disconnect the Alps passive, change the gain with the feedback to half of what it is, as h... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume This just keeps going around in circles, if you don’t like the sound when it’s used as an integrated, change the source to one you like, instead of coloring it with that premp, and then having your problem of way too much gain.Just look at the spe... | |
| AR SP8 mk2 high output volume @georgehifi thank you very much for your advice. If you take it to a technician, you could also complete the operation by reducing the gain at any of the Puresound inputs.As I have already mentioned.Sorry but no, again introducing series impedance... |