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| tube watts vs solid state watts Actually, most tube amps run into difficulty driving low impedance loads and put out less power at 4 and 2 ohms than most equivalent solid-state designs (many of which double power into 4 ohms and then double again into 2 ohms). So if you have a w... | |
| tube watts vs solid state watts Watts is watts! But since you can drive most tube amps well past clipping (into serious distortion) without hurting your speakers, many tube users routinely clip their amps to high distortion levels to get a little extra volume.If you do that with... | |
| systems seems to be playing slowly, need thoughts I highly doubt that it's anything related to absolute polarity, as Casouza suggested. About 50 percent of recordings are made out of phase anyway and the effects, to me, do not seem to be related to tempo problems.I'm thinking the CD player too. A... | |
| Audio Physics ...Bright or forward? Narrod, consider that what is not "bright" to you, may well be "bright" to someone else. It's a very fine line we're talking about here, and a person's room, equipment, and personal taste are all factors that influence which side of the fence one ... | |
| Audio Physics ...Bright or forward? Believe it or not, all Audio Physics speakers do not sound the same. Which model are you talking about???I owned the Virgo II's for a while and thought they were a touch bright with certain material and equipment, but not overly so. The Virgo III'... | |
| Ultimate Amplifier for the next 20 Years The way digital amplification is evolving, no one can say that any amp, analogue or digital, will be a viable option in 20 years.But I can tell you that in the here and now, the NuForce Reference 9.02 amps would be real tough to beat driving your ... | |
| Bridging mono amps Don't do it! Sell one set of 4 amps and replace them with a pair of more powerful amps... | |
| Class D Amp For 'Stats? The NuForce Reference 9 amps sound extremely natural and musical with conventional speakers and have no problem driving loads well under 1 ohm. That said, I believe the NuForce and probably a lot of the other amps (even analog amps) sound somewhat... | |
| Leasing options for hi-end AV gears? Nopes, I don't knows of anys... But most of the retail shops will lease it to you for the retail price, since you'd want it for the length of a product cycle, which seems reasonable to me. | |
| Shouldn't amp reviews employ multiple speakers? Gs5556 makes some good points. I have one of my systems set up to be as revealing as possible for testing electronics. You really need a linear, low-distortion, wide-range system to hear what electronic components are doing (or not doing). I mean,... | |
| Shouldn't amp reviews employ multiple speakers? Well -- all the reviewers I know buy their own gear, plus many of them are married and their spouses may not like to see three pairs of different types of speakers in the listening room. Personally, I have two 2-channel systems set up in two diffe... | |
| Nuforce Guy's,I think the chassis issue is being way overdone here. Obviously the NuForce amps wouldn't sound nearly as good as they do if the chassis affected the sound that much. And the chassis is more substantial on the Reference 9s than it is on the ... | |
| RB300 tweaking problem Hmmm, that's weird. I had a Rock Mk-3 with the Rega RB300 and as I recall the stock outrigger assembly was very light in weight. Has someone made a home-made outrigger that weighs a lot more, by any chance? If so, perhaps you could order or find t... | |
| Effortless, grain-free sound - is it possible? It's also possible that something is overloading or not performing correctly, especially if you're playing at relatively low levels. Substituting other gear like a CD player or amp might tell you this. 89dB/watt is not that inefficient, but for sm... | |
| Effortless, grain-free sound - is it possible? My feeling is that you're expecting a lot from a 50 watt per channel tube amp (good-sounding triode mode), when asking it to drive not-so-efficient speakers with small (under 6-inch) woofers. Unless you're playing this system in an 8 x 10 foot roo... |