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| Questions about Speltz zeros and MA-2 amps Springbok, the MA-2 amps are quite comfortable driving a 4 ohm load. You likely don't need the autoformer for this combination unless the speakers have some crazy low minimum impedance dip. The MA-2s work beautifully here with Eidolons, a nominal ... | |
| Speaker placement: Your favourite shortcut? I've had good success starting with either "thirds" (speakers placed one third of the room length, seating at two thirds) or the Cardas ratios for placement. Then use complex acoustic music with good soundstaging (orchestral or large ensemble jazz... | |
| power conditioners for digital Lokie, the separation of outlets ("ex. 2 outlets for digital and 4 for analogue") has nothing to do with digital or analogue per se. It's just separating the ground scheme between the sets of outlets, and perhaps adding some filters bewteen the tw... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Tom, it did turn out simply to be break in for the new capacitors installed as part of the update. It took 400 hours for those capacitors to break in, and I was concerned about it. Then one day the amps just clicked over and the magic was back. Ra... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Hi Tom, good to see your post! One thing folks should be aware of about the A-S amps is that the choice of 6SN7 driver tubes will make a big difference in the sound. In the MA-2s you heard at my house on the standard Eidolon, Tom, we were listenin... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Rleff offers good advice about calling Ralph. He's easy to talk with and will give you straight answers. But, just so there's some response in the thread to your questions...1. The newest production amps (MkIII) have an automatic self-biasing circ... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps I agree completely with Sbank's description of the Atma-Sphere amps. With reasonable care matching speakers, the MA-1 amps are magic. Jimjoyce25, I own Atma-Sphere MA-2 amps that were very early production MkII amps (mid-90's production). I sent t... | |
| New to Analog and just played my first record in Come on, lighten up folks! Grannyring is having fun experimenting at a minimal cost. Help him enjoy what he's doing, don't beat him up.. | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Tbg, I'm reasonably sure that the time difference lies in the amount of time it takes Loricraft (or any of the "string" cleaners) to traverse the side versus the VPI. I'm quite confident that the string cleaners give a better result, but that's a ... | |
| New to Analog and just played my first record in Grannyring, without a doubt. But, it will give you a better sense of whether this whole effort is worth pursuing.. | |
| New to Analog and just played my first record in Bill, in all seriousness, don't invest more money at this point. You would be far better served by finding someone who has a decent vinyl setup and listening to that first. I'm a serious vinylholic, so this is no slam on vinyl. It's just that list... | |
| whats the best addition u have bought for system Flyin2jz, from where you are today you might consider any of the following as next steps:1. Dedicated AC lines from your circuit breaker to your equipment, if you have an option to do this. I'd definitely do this before spending money on any power... | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Tbg, I haven't been able to tell anything about enzyme loss of effectiveness in less than 10 hours. I've never mixed up a batch with the large scoop, only the small. And I often mix a half batch with just half the small scoop to do just a few reco... | |
| Can you connect Squeezebox Duet Yes, it has a digital volume control on all outputs. See the specifications:www.slimdevices.com/pi_duet.html. | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking Here's a minor "listening exercise" with a pivoted arm in a highly resolving system with excellent soundstaging... Pull out a record that can demonstrate excellent soundstaging (such as the Holst "Savitri" on Argo ZNF 6 or the Stravinsky "Firebird... |