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| BIG difference Tidal vs Amazon Music Most often, the primary factor causing differences is the choice of particular masters chosen by the company. The same thing happens when you buy CDs—some are much worse than others playing ostensibly the same music. | |
| BIG difference Tidal vs Amazon Music Most often, the primary factor causing differences is the choice of particular masters chosen by the company. The same thing happens when you buy CDs—some are much worse than others playing ostensibly the same music. | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe What Atmasphere is saying that you might want the bit of extra power that pushpull delivers rather than the flea power of the common SET tubes. What he has been very diplomatic about not mentioning is that he manufactures output transformerless (... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe As mentioned above, Deja Vu Audio makes custom amps. These days, they focus on fairly expensive replica/rebuilds of Western Electric amps. They do get trade-ins of vintage tube amps as well as some of their older, and more affordable, past model... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe Not that much to go on, but the safer bet would probably be the EL84 amp. My 6.5 watt Kageki (parallel 2a3 SET) amp is enough, for me, with my 99 db/w speakers, but, I don't play my music that loud and on some music, the amp does seem to loose a ... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe If you are talking about an AN Kit amp, I don't think they are affiliated with Audio Note (uk). They have put together similar gear based on Audio Note design and buy those parts that Audio Note offers to the market, but, that does not mean they... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe I've seen and heard the Backert gear at audio shows. It is hard to make a sonic evaluation of electronics at a show, but, I did like the very serious people designing and backing the product and I liked what I saw. You indeed should be looking ... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe I don't think you would go wrong with the choice of an OTO. As to changing coupling caps, this is a matter of personal taste, so be prepared to switch back if the new caps are not to your taste. My local Audio Note dealer, who also builds his ow... | |
| How do you tell your Cartridge needs replacing? You could also get a test record that has increasing modulation levels (loudness) and you could note when you hear the onset of mis-tracking and how severe is that mis-tracking. Later, you can compare that result to what you hear when you are loo... | |
| How do you tell your Cartridge needs replacing? You should listen for signs of mis-tracking on the most demanding points of tracks with very sharp and loud transients, such as where a female singer gets too close to the microphone and really hits the note hard. If you start to hear a fuzzy sou... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? I liked the sound of the ProAc DB2 and DB3s I've heard at a dealership. They do a very good job of faking their bass response-elevated upper bass to make the speaker sound fuller and rich in bass. If that is the case, I don't know what you can ... | |
| Great speaker sounds terrible in my room? Each speaker has a different ideal location, so you have to experiment. The comparison is between each pair at their respective ideal location. If you use an experimental method, like the “Sumiko” method, you will be able to find many different l... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe I have not heard a direct comparison between the two (although I’ve heard both), and either would make a fine choice. The Oto is a terrific sounding amp that works well with any reasonably efficient speakers. Of course it works well with the AN-... | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe At the recent Capital Audiofest, Vu set up Audio Note room at their behest. His store is extraordinarily interesting—all of the gear (except trade-ins) is tube-based, and some of it is the store’s own build or items built in collaboration with a ... | |
| Tube Amp settings: Triode vs UL; 8 ohm vs. 4 ohm ? This amp runs KT88 as output tubes, EL84s as drivers and 6922s as input tubes. I would guess that it would have enough grunt to operate in triode mode even if that means about half the output of ultralinear. You could also consider operating in ... |