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| Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito If anything, MoFi did us a favor by demonstrating that digital does not inevitably lead to horrible sounding recordings. Records do sound different from digital versions because of differing mastering and the process of mechanically converting th... | |
| Classical? Chinese Music I you are interested in cross cultural music, sample some of the Silk Road Ensemble recordings. The artists involved are amazing musicians. The group was originally formed by Yo Yo Ma, and it brings together music from Japan, China, the Middle E... | |
| Moving from integrated to separates I would be helpful to know how close you now come to running out of clean power. With tube amps, you don't get the shrill, harsh output from the tweeter that you get when solid state is running out of gas--you tend to first experience compression... | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. Almost all of the people I know who have ultra high end systems do not at all try to impress anyone, if anything, they hide their addiction. If anyone, aside from audio friends, knew how much I spent on the gear, that would totally confirm their ... | |
| Moving from integrated to separates I don’t know your situation as to ability to actually hear different amps. If you can, hear something that runs something other than KT 88, KT 120, or KT 150s. Those tubes are almost ubiquitous where power is the big selling point, but, there ar... | |
| Moving from integrated to separates I have not heard any Qualiton amp so I cannot say how it compares to the Synthesis. These days, certain types of tubes are overlooked by the market because, within a given basic design, transformer requirement, etc., these tube types do not deliv... | |
| Moving from integrated to separates The local dealer in my area, Deja Vu Audio, sells only tube amplification. Their primary line of electronics are Audio Note, Synthesis and Conrad Johnson. I really like the Audio Note line up, but, their amps are aimed at high efficiency speaker... | |
| Moving from integrated to separates You will not necessarily gain much by going to tubed separates. Many tube integrated amps are essentially a basic tube amp with just an added volume control, source selector and additional input jacks. You should not assume that you need more... | |
| Damping Factor vs speaker sensitivity Damping factor is pretty much meaningless unless one is talking about a tube amp with extremely low damping factor, like around 4 or less. Beyond 8, the numbers don’t really matter that much unless the speakers have a really low impedance. | |
| USB Digitil microscope advice I actually have a SmarTractor, which is on loan to someone else, and the Wally Protractor. I think the magnifier got lost, but it looks like one of those magnifiers used for examining fabric, so I can find a replacement. I was hoping for somethi... | |
| Tube PHONO preamp interference - RFI, EMI, bad grounding? Have you tried ferrite beads or cores around the cabling? These are used to suppress RFI and other noise carried on cables. You can try some on the cable coming from the tonearm. | |
| Tube PHONO preamp interference - RFI, EMI, bad grounding? Have you looked for a possible source of noise within the home? I know someone who found the source by systematically turning everything off one at a time. It turned out to be his daughters string of LED lights which are on a different floor and... | |
| Bookshelf speakers on a bookshelf (Sad) Legacy Audio has some in-wall/on wall speakers that might work. Their speakers sound decent. | |
| Lowering Tube power amp output Personally, I would sell the amp and look for a lower powered amp if you determine that you really don't need that much power. Two hundred watts is usually way more than one really needs for almost any speaker. I generally don't like the sound o... | |
| Lowering Tube power amp output Lowering voltage might do the trick without causing any damage. In some applications, under-voltage could be harmful to transistors, but, I doubt that there is a problem with tube gear. Does anyone know if the lower voltage might reduce the cath... |