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| Congratulations Atmasphere! @erik_squires FYI, patents are also presented at uspto.gov in an alternative format in which the claims section is identified more explicitly, and is placed near the beginning.I chose the other format for the link I provided in my initial post, th... | |
| Congratulations Atmasphere! I’m curious though, not being well versed in the entire history of switching amps, what parts are new here? The balanced outputs? Hi Erik,What is new is defined by the 20 very precisely worded claims stated in the "Claims" section of the patent (... | |
| Preferred Digital Music File Backup? While I understand that some cloud services will mail a drive containing your files to you if it ever becomes necessary to restore them, keep in mind that downloading a large backup from the cloud may take an absurdly long time.For example, if y... | |
| Looking for a small tube amp (possibly integrated tube amp)... low power, nice sound While by all accounts I’ve ever seen the RM-10 MkII is a fantastic amp, after taking a quick look at the specs and descriptions of the OPs components, and doing some quick calculations, I believe he would have more of a gain problem with it than h... | |
| Any Rumors of a Successor to the DEQX HDP-5? Hi,I received your message on this question, but I have no knowledge of what the answer might be. I see, though, that the price of the HDP-5 has recently been reduced by $1000 relative to what I paid for it a few years ago; perhaps that adds cred... | |
| What's Your Favorite Type of Listening Chair for Audio I listen from Wassily Chairs. In addition to being a beautiful and classic design (see this Wikipedia writeup), their relatively low seating position results in my ears being at an optimal height for my particular speakers (Daedalus Ulysses), an... | |
| Seeking help finding the weak link(s) in my system and offering suggestions please. The high gain (48 db) and wide bandwidth (150 kHz) of your amp raises a bit of concern in my mind about how well the amp would react in terms of sonics to the highish capacitance of the 8TC (about 1600 pf for the 15 foot length you require, and 32... | |
| Audio hobby is like tasting wine. Oregonpapa 11-20-2019Wouldn’t mind a pair of Marantz 9s to play with though. During the early to mid-1990s I owned several of the classic Marantz tube components, including a pair of 9s, as well as a pair of Model 1 mono preamps, a pair of Model ... | |
| Analog room correction for vinyl The DEQX HDP-5 I use has a built-in A/D converter, and thus can apply its numerous DSP functions to analog as well as digital inputs. I and a number of other members have reported in the following thread that despite the A/D and subsequent D/A co... | |
| Audio hobby is like tasting wine. I agree with all of the points made by the OP.To illustrate that, while I don’t by any means consider myself to be a wine expert, during the mid-1980s I purchased a few dozen bottles of French Bordeaux from the excellent 1982 vintage, that were hi... | |
| Amps & Preamps I found the following statement in a review of the PBN Mini-Olympia: The Mini-Olympia has a switch on its rear panel so that the input impedance can be set three different ways: 75 ohms for BNC connection, 3.3k ohms for balanced, and 100k ohms for... | |
| Seeking help finding the weak link(s) in my system and offering suggestions please. I’m very interested in learning more about DSP Room Correction. Does anyone have experience with this and where do you start? A good way to start may be with the following page at MiniDSP.com, and then proceeding to look into the specific products... | |
| Seeking help finding the weak link(s) in my system and offering suggestions please. Krell Vanguard Integrated Amp.Cambridge Audio AZURE 851N Streamer/DAC.Sony SCD2000ES Transport/SACD player.Luxman T117 Tuner (Best sounding component)? I took a quick look at the descriptions and specs of these components, and I’m wondering if a ... | |
| Dazed & Confused Is there something I could ask Doug Dale at Coda to do to limit the output voltage of the balanced outputs? I presume you meant to refer to the amp’s balanced inputs, not outputs. I would recommend against asking him to do anything to make the amp... | |
| Dazed & Confused W4S finally got back to me with this response:" So a 1k load is quite ridiculous really, not sure why they would release something like that but surely don’t drive that single-ended. Running balanced will drive it and whatever degradation would be... |