relaks
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| Tube vs solid state (with all apologies) I can second every word @millercarbon wrote. Absolutely my approach. Keep it simple. A good 'speaker with easy load and smith like 92-94dB and a high quality integrated about 40-50W is probably the easiest way to get a good enough sound for sane ... | |
| In praise of isolation. @perkri Damping the bounce was going to be more challenging I figured.Take a look at Townshend springs, they damp it with rubber enclosures. | |
| Best Integrated that you've heard under $5k LTA Z10 (or Z40 if you are lucky to find a used one) | |
| The smoothest amp you've heard? The best high frequencies I have ever had I have now with my Linear Tube Audio Z40. It is a David Berning ZOTL design with 6Hz-60kHz (+0 -0.5dB) and no traditional output transformers. So the roll-off (if there is some) entirely depends on what tu... | |
| The smoothest amp you've heard? The smoothest amp I have ever had was ARS Emitter, it had a huge power supply and lots of power, it could drive anything and was immune to the mains quality. It was also the dullest, most boring amp I have ever had. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Try Archie Shepp ballads albums from Japanese Venus RecordsTrue BalladsBlue BalladsTrue BlueDeja VuAlso:Black Ballads,Left Alone RevisitedGoin' Home | |
| Sibilance Sometimes harsh high freq. are caused by mains pollution, which is in turn caused by RFI and switched-mode power supplies. Variations then are a result of variations in the mains. You may change the DAC and harshness disappears, but not necessary ... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? Musicality is a very vague term and in most cases it means nothing. Often it is just the ability to enjoy music.So. First of all, we need to realise that hi-fi does not play music, it just pushes and pulls air giving us an opportunity to reconstru... | |
| If Power Cords Don't Matter... Some people are so gullible, they feel the rain and open their umbrellas. Others are more sophisticated data people, they check the weather report and if it says dry, they act accordingly. Because they know weather reports are science and all the ... | |
| If Power Cords Don't Matter... @avitacom So if you want to improve the quality of current presented to these amplification devices, you would have to optimize components within the amp or preamp, the power transformer, rectifiier or voltage regulator, not add on external tweak... | |
| Zingali Overture series thumbs "up" or "down" A fascinating old thread about my favourite loudspeakers with quite opposite opinions. I guess, it only proves that Zingali should be matched carefully. I used to own Ov.3s many years ago, could not tame the bass in my 13’ x 19’ room and sold it, ... | |
| What is wrong with my system? I remember some 25 years ago I had a Bryston pre/power - ATC 35 combo and complained about the lack of bass. Which was ridiculous really, since on paper that combo was able to produce a thunderous bass ( just like the OP setup). I even went to the... | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use Linear Tube Audio Z40 and Lavardin IT | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! 1/ Townshend Podiums under my speakers.2/ Ground boxes connected to my DAC and amp3/ Power filtering (Isol-8 LC and Audioplan)I don't count cables, the hi-fi stand and the room as tweaks. These are major parts of any system. | |
| CD v Streamed I am using Innuos ZEN to stream Qobuz music and also as a file transport/server. The stream quality is great, but when I really like something, I still buy a CD to rip it to the ZEN hard drive. Why? Because a ripped CD sounds better than a streame... |