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| Class A amplifiers SameThe only cost a good Class-A amp does is raise your power bill and room temp if left on for no reason, a large biased class-A actually runs cooler when played hard.A Class-A amp is the best BUT!!! it has to handle everything that that high Cla... | |
| SET vs OTL I agree that using an auto-former somewhat defeats the purpose of an OTL and would not be an option for me. Correct using a "Zero" type autoformer is a "bandaid fix" for an OTL amp that is not suitable for that speaker loading, far better off get... | |
| Pass X150.5 or Odyssey Stratos monos? Whatever 🤦♂️ get someone to show you on the test bench, where all decent amps are designed/measured and worked out. It’s a very easy way for a manufacturer to have a much more "powerful mono pair model" without much re-designing and tooling put i... | |
| SET vs OTL In a nutshell, hypothetically, if the speaker is a "very easy drive without any hindrance" at all to either amp, the OTL in class-A will be the better amp full stop.BUT!! for an OTL not to be hindered IN ANY WAY at all by todays "better sounding s... | |
| Gryphon Diable 300 DAC vs. Lumin X1 DAC Knowing just how good their amps are.I thought Gryphon would have been smarter than that, and use R2R for their best digital conversion products, but no. Their digital stuff has never been as well excepted sonically as their amps have beenCheers G... | |
| Infinity Prelude MTS Since Infinity has been ZERO helpYou'd think circuit diagrams and some parts could be. That’s a shame the Prelude MTS is not THAT old under 20 years, they (Infinity) used to be such a good company/speakers in the old days 80’s/90’s before being ta... | |
| CD v Streamed Right now, my analog rig has a slight edge over CD with some records. I guess I will not be able to post my comparison of streaming to vinyl here since this post is titled CD vs Streaming. What an exciting time for audio. Of course you can post it... | |
| Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy? Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy? Yes, the Nelson Pass single ended transistor amps, think they’re called Aleph’s"If you have the patience, here what he says about them Single Ended Class A Nelson Pass IntroductionSingle-Ende... | |
| Pass X150.5 or Odyssey Stratos monos? Again, and again and again....the same argument...🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ One day it'll sink in, that bridging a stereo amp is a big musical compromise just to get more watts, may as well say it's now a P.A. amp. | |
| Old digital that still kicks butt If you have a chance to hear a 20-year old Audio Note DAC 5, you will see how little the state of the art has progressed. Also uses a good old R2R ladder dac the AD1862.👍 It has been a while since I have heard the Linn CD 12, but I agree with the ... | |
| KLH model 9 electrostatic Speakers KLH model 9 electrostatic Speakers I am thinking if it’s possible to replace the power cord on the power supplies. Changing power cords on ESL’s power supplies will do nothing whatsoever for the sound.As rubbing a piece of plastic with a cloth is... | |
| Linn Classik 115 Replacement CD Laser Mechanism david10065 Can’t find it anywhere for you, and Linn probably won’t tell you either, as they are usually **** ***** about things like that. Unless you can find a service agent that will tell you.Cheers George | |
| Old digital that still kicks butt Old digital that still kicks butt Especially well designed ones that use the very best of the last R2R ladder dac chips made the PCM1702 and PCM1704 chips and if you can get them with PMD100 or 200 HDCD filter chips, but not mandatory, after those... | |
| Trying to understand optimal method of volume control with separates brandini OP Actually I forgot you can also use the the Freya+ in passive mode so forget what I said about getting the Sys.Cheers George | |
| Trying to understand optimal method of volume control with separates I’m thinking about picking up a freya+ so I can finally do it right and have a remote. Hopefully the gain won’t be out of control but I can return it if it doesn’t work out. Get a $49 Schiit Sys passive as well, as I said the higher the dacs volum... |