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| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 too fuzzy. this is what Jeff Fischel answered on my question on the distortion: "CONRAD-JOHNSON preamps are designed for optimal sonic performance , yet this is not always reflected in the specifications of distortion." well, we know CJ amps and ... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 but high THD might not be so bad, if the harmonic content is mostly lower orders (2nd, 3rd and 4th) as the ear is far less sensitive to them. Can we know, based on specs, whether THD referes to a lower or higher order harmonics? Is there anothe... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 Thanks for these notes.Then you need a good DSP unit I guess. Perhaps in future a miracle can happen and digital speakers without any amplification will reproduce the sound. Meanwhile, another related practical question. Conrad Johnson preamplifie... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 It is then an interdisciplinary thing, very desirable but perhaps it rarely happens an engineer to be a musician, but it will help if he is an audio fan. Eric, i thought feedback was something to create the gain. I am too far from this field, but... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 @atmasphere , thanks for your comments. I am too far from understanding all this technical background, but am learning some new things. I would not ask you many questions, but please forgive me if my understanding of these things is too far from t... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 It looks like that we are deemed to hear distortion from the day we are born. And that the audio engineers try to make the the pain easier, i.e., the distortion in audio reproduction a most pleasing possible. The impressionists also faced a simila... | |
| Short List of Amps I prefer over the Pass Labs XA25 or INT 25 @atmasphere, interesting and beautiful theory /hypothesis on harmonic orders. it is not easy to imagine how it works in practice. how different harmonic orders are related in phase/time, why their combination should lead to a soft pleasing sound?... | |
| Fairly new to streaming. Where to start? Hi Mike. MQA might be good or not but this is not the issue. I just wish to have a CD quality sound with Tidal. The difference is not huge but it is something between pleasing and non-pleasing sound (Tidal sound is not that crystal clear). I did... | |
| Fairly new to streaming. Where to start? Thanks big grag for the reply. I also suggest that not. I use the same external DAC for both, streaming with OPPO and my CD transport (thought OPPO has its own ecc DAC, which is not as good as the external one). | |
| Fairly new to streaming. Where to start? A relevant question. I am streaming Tidal hi fi with an OPPOBDP 105 player with a separate DAC. Would Node 2i improve the output digital signal compared to that of OPPO? (Unfortunately, I do not get with Tidal hifi the sound quality that my CD pl... | |
| Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously. I think that one needs to be spiritually "thirsty" to understand Coltrane and of course be experienced in jazz. I did likeMiles Davis from my esrly years of listening to jazz, but did not like at the beginning Coltrane. Now I can deeply enjoy and... | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? You may not be disappointing. The design is nice. Take into account that Class D wattage is not the same, you may have about the same power as with your ATI (tube 50 watts \approx class ab 100 watts \approx class D 200 watts). | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? With the same success, you may demo two class ab amps. How many class d amps exist? You cannot judge just based on this experience. You will have more distortion on most class a b amps, can a distortion give you a live sound? | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? bolduque , in addition to the useful and valuable notes by Tim and George, i would still suggest you to try a class D amp. You may spent less money for the sound quality you will get, will save space and energy. There are very good sounding cl... | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? It looks interesting. Hpa 9 has also two levels of gain, i always prefer low gain.Keep us posted on your impressions on amg pre. |