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| Amp Power: Tubes vs Solid State Technically speaking a Watt is a unit of measure of power, as such a Watt is a Watt. The fact that tubes clip more gracefully is similar to a stone rolling (tube Watts) down a hill (point of overload and subsequent distortion) as oppossed to a sto... | |
| Pass Aleph Questions Keep in mind that your volume control acts more like a brake than an accelerator. Many old time audiophiles believe that a volume control works best when set around 2:00. | |
| What's wrong with Thiel? All I can say is that I'm a long time Thiel owner and all the advise above is right on! Don't be afraid to call Thiel, their customer service is second to none. | |
| Pain in my butt Ernie, get well soon! | |
| Amp Power: Tubes vs Solid State That all depends what you mean by a difficult load. If it's a higher than typical impedance load many tube amps may have advantage. If it's a lower than typical impedance load many solid state amps will have an advantage. Many lower powered tube a... | |
| Taking the bad with the good Sean, we were obviously comparing different venues and at different times (years), the point of your thread rings even truer. I agree with your latest post as well, the only excuse I could grant the demostrators is that they were marketing a speci... | |
| 500 to spend on int.amp,help me match with gear. At the risk of appearing self serving (I have an item up for auction here on Audiogon that would profit form the folowing recommendation) may I suggest you consider separates at this price point. Besides some technical advantages separates would p... | |
| Review: Forte Model 4a Amplifier I agree the Forte 4a is an audio classic. In as much as it sounded more powerful than it's 50 watt rating, I've always wondered what the 75 watt mono model 7's sounded like. Anybody care to share their thoughts on them? | |
| Taking the bad with the good As usual Sean and Zaikesman bring up very good points. Not to rehash previous threads but one of the worst demo's I've ever heard was the one by Classic Audio Research at the last Sterophile show in New York. I know Sean liked it. Before I recentl... | |
| Help On Dunlavy's I hope that many of you understand that I do believe that one can improve a product with better parts. I understand that manufacturers are building to a price point and trying to maximize profits where ever possible. My concern is the challange of... | |
| CD out: Digital or Analog? Using the digital out put does provide the oportunity for increased jitter. | |
| CD out: Digital or Analog? heimert, try it both ways and use what you prefer. I'm not that familiar with your B&K, but some similar devices have DSP manipulation that is only availible with a digital signal. Whether or not this manipulation is good or not is controversi... | |
| Help On Dunlavy's Dunlavy doesn't use the most esoteric parts, beieving that more expensive parts don't provide any more benefit than less expensive ones and that in some cases are worse. Many parts manufacturers allow themselves a rather generous tolerance level. ... | |
| CD v. SACD Bob-bundus and Jeffcott bring up very good points. HDCD is slightly better than CD, but there are about 6000 HDCD titles (some have don't have the HDCD logo) and with Microsoft behind HDCD I think it's safe to say more will be comming. As for the ... | |
| Best Cables for Linn I don't know about best, but I have heard Tara work well with Linn. |