atmasphere
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| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Just my two cents, but having owned multiple ST70s and ST35s, I like the ST35 much better. @hilde45 This is a comment worth exploring! The ST35 uses a triode Voltage amplifier while the ST70 uses a pentode. In addition, the smaller output trans... | |
| Why do records made from digital sources sound good? Having said this I recognize that it is possible to get excellent sound from analog. I believe that many listeners prefer to hear the colorations from their analog set up (usually related to cartridge choice)and the sense of ambiance from LP play... | |
| Is Subwoofer Elevation a Viable Option? So, why do we even want the bass to be "reinforced"? If the low frequencies aren't reinforced in a uniform way, that might be of some benefit, but I very much doubt that's the case. Even if it does, why not just increase the loudness instead add... | |
| Is Subwoofer Elevation a Viable Option? Because the sub is typically on the floor, along with all the furniture in the room, wouldn't low frequency waves be blocked/diffused a lot. Wouldn't the sound from a subwoofer benefit from an unencumbered dispersion of energy into the room? @t... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Atmasphere your viewpoint in this discussion repetitively shuts down people learning and exploring. The whole discussion about bass, about distortion, and many of the other salient points you’ve raised, while one hand accurate, are on the other h... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? How many maximal dB do we need for classical, rock, jazz music? It looks like the distortions from 50Watt heat on the speaker's voice coil and crossover parts should be much more horrible then 10% SET distortion on maximal power distortions. ... | |
| Why do records made from digital sources sound good? So can someone explain this to me? @billstevenson Yes. FWIW, I ran an LP mastering operation for about 15 years. When we got in a project that used a digital source file, we would talk to the producer to see if we could get a copy that didn't... | |
| How many subs? @bilateral No need for any delay in such a small room! If your 'acoustic engineer' thinks otherwise, fire him- he's doing you no favors. Here are some facts to consider: at 80Hz, the waveform is 14 feet long. It takes a full cycle to pass the ear... | |
| Load Settings Help: Luxman E-250 and Koetsu Black Line @sdavada The cartridge literally does not care how you load it until the load value is quite low and then the cartridge output will decrease. But when the cartridge is tracking, it generates Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and many phono secti... | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing But, I don’t recall it coming with remote control. @larryi FWIW Dept.: Remote has been available for years for the MP-3. It might be a bit of a trick to find one with the remote at the price mentioned though. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Here's the situation: I have new speakers, 97 db. Trying them with lower watt tube amps (45/211, 300b, etc) seems generally wise. I am attempting to borrow some from audiophiles in the area. @hilde45 Unless your room is a smaller one, SETs usi... | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing @terenthia Since your amp has balanced inputs you might consider taking advantage of that. We don't make a balanced preamp in your price range but you might be able to find one of our MP-3 preamps used for that price. The advantage of balanced li... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? A lower level of Dynamics, flatter line, is expected when impedance is lower? @emergingsoul Dynamics comes from the signal not the amp. When it seems like the amp is more 'dynamic' the chances are extremely high that what you are hearing is act... | |
| To Fritz, Quicksilver, and all the exceptional makers trying to get the word out I've been very happy with my Fritz Carbon 6s which I drive with a 5 Watt/channel tube amp. They play nice together- I have them in my bedroom system. The speakers also work great with our class D amps; we showed with the Carbon 7s at AXPONA in 202... | |
| Doozy of an amp question @roxy1927 There are class D amps out there now that have all the smoothness and detail of the best tube amps and balanced inputs no problem. |