mapman
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| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Knowledgeable DIY'ers can put bought high end audio to shame. I've seen and heard it with my own ears at Capital Audiofest a couple years back. I'm surprised they let those guys in. They made many the big ticket vendors look silly. | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Charles I'll agree with that. Its hard to make exactly the same tasting soup when significantly different ingredients are used. But a good chef might get pretty close. And each chef will likely think their way is better. | |
| Anything as " fast" as SPECTRAL gear? Al, do you think what you describe might correlate to an amps ability to deliver "holographic imaging" as part of those more nebulous sonic artifacts? I tend to relate high performance as measured in things like bandwidth slew rate and rise time w... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Yep, that connection and sense of accomplishment would seem to be the irreplaceable part of the equation at this time.Lots of nice suitable fish er I mean speakers in the sea.... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... "The right SS amp in the right total system can indeed sound very muchlike a good SET amp system. It it the complete combination. The amp is butone piece"I'm glad to hear someone else believes this too as well as me. If I am whacked, at least I am... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... In rebbi's case I think he has to keep the SET and find teh right speakers. After all, he built the amp. Its his personal creation.The Refs are nice but you can always buy a new pair of good speakers.Then again this amp is famous by now. You might... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Interesting thread Here on the topic of OTL and push/pull. | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... I wonder how OTL tube amps like Atmasphere for example would do with the Decapos.One thing about tube amps for sure is that I do not think I have ever heard two that sounded exactly the same, even with the same architecture. | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... The technology is just a means to the end which is to make good sounding music. What sounds good, or more so best, is always a matter of personal opinion. Different technologies provide a different set (no pun) of tools to achieve ones goals. Teh ... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? Audiophiles love to make things complicated.Integrated gear does the opposite and the technology has improved immensely over the years. Don't forget the DAC these days when integrating. if you are old fashioned you might even want a phono front en... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... I tend to agree with Grannyring in terms of relative importance of things.The thing is, in a smaller room in particular there are many ways to skin the cat. So one can start with a low power amp and build around that more reliably in that there wi... | |
| Help with System Musicality Link to Musical Frequency Chart | |
| Help with System Musicality Also, I think in line with Al's point, I always find crossover points in the midrange where most music occurs to work against musicality overall, unless very well designed and executed. Even then, it can only usually hurt and not help. Take a look... | |
| Help with System Musicality As I understand it, ribbon and/or folded ribbon tweeters also tend to be very directional and frequency response can vary widely with location. Worth taking note assuming to be true in this particular case. | |
| Review: Ohm Acoustics Ohm Walsh 100 Series 3 Speaker Its been awhile, but I still have these. These have recently settled into my second 2 channel A/V system. I have spent a fair amount of time recently working to get that setup up to snuff. Currently they run off the TAD Hibachi amps which deliver ... |