othercrazycanuck
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| How Do Amps Affect Soundstage? Tube amps change your frequency response. Heck ya that impacts sound stage. Some say distortion emphasizes some frequencies so my guess is that impacts sound stage too. Distortion I think impacts ambience which I used to confuse with sound stage. ... | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? I used to confuse soundstage with ambience. Sometimes I wanted better sound stage, but I really wanted more ambience, and vice versa. If you are using a DAC and solid state amp, soundstage comes from the recording, speakers, speaker placement and... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? @creativepart , You are reading into what I wrote what you want to think, not what I said. Imagine being in a room, the left wall is one shade of blue. The right wall is a different shade of blue. You can see the shades and clearly identify them... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? @creativepart , Better DAC topology, better power supplies, better clocks, better components, better pre and post analog stages and better input types all have a huge impact on what we universally call a DAC. It could be true that all digital to ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? @atmasphere , do you have distortion measurements that you can share with us comparing your tube and class-D amplifiers? | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? @8th-note , I participated in an informal -formal DAC blind test around 2000. Can't remember all the models, but we could tell differences. It was not easy, but they were there. I had a Lampizator through here for a while, model 7 if I remember, i... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? My stable of tube amps is down to a Sonic Frontier SFS-80, and Allnic M-3000 Mk. 2's. SS amps include Bryston 7B, Krell 300, Nad M33, Topping LA90 (to see what the hype was about), and I have a local tech putting together an amp with the latest P... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? Whenever I hear amplifier companies touting GaN technology, I think "Fine Carinthian Leather". Purifi and Hypex don't seem to have a problem making amplifiers with almost unbelievable performance with regular transistors. I think many other compan... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? @mathiasmingus, I used to be on the equipment ferris wheel, going around and around and around. Maybe equipment roulette is more fitting? This DAC, that DAC, this cartridge, that cartridge, amps, etc. Never quite happy. Once I learned all the ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? @atmasphere , do you have distortion measurements that you can share with us comparing your tube and class-D amplifiers? | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? I don't think @yage is arguing semantics, @carlsbad2. The statement you made, Peachtree GaN1 is a "digital amp". There is no such thing. Inside the PT amp, there is a DAC. My guess is it is a common chip and if you open it up you'll find all t... | |
| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. What fundamentals? Far too many and I should know better! - Buying high end speakers with low end design - Believing speakers needed to be big - Believing subs are mainly for movies - Thinking that my electronics, but mainly my amps were eithe... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? Borrowed this explanation, paraphrased from threads on ASR. A class-D amplifier is an analog amplifier. It uses analog circuits, with an analog signal as the input, to turn transistors on and off. A 1-bit sigma-delta DAC that switches 5V power r... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? I have tube amps. I have SS amps. The SS amps mainly sound the same when I let me head get out of the way. The tube amps all sound a bit different. Neither is better, they are just different. Depending on what speakers I have them hooked up to, ... |