atmasphere
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| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? If a speaker requires an amp/ arc welder up front to drive it, then IMO, there is a problem with the speaker design. YMMV. Exactly! Such speakers border on criminal as there simply aren't amps that sound like music that can drive them nor would... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? I suggest since you are such a big fan of the Parasound JC1+'s sound that you go out and immediately buy a pair, if you haven't already...That's what I am talking about...;0) @daveyf :) Distortion vs frequency is a better measure of how music... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? The physics of the speaker is a balancing act: if you want more efficiency you give up other advantages. Im not saying this is wrong, it’s simply a choice. A moderate efficiency speaker (86dB 1w/1m) is not a mistake either as it is just a differe... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops @jjbeason14 I think we need to know what 'flubbing' means in this case. One thing that can cause ticks and pops is the input of the phono section overloading at ultrasonic frequencies. This is actually pretty common and is caused by the inductanc... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Problem is that they also require a very large ss amp upstream to drive them. Something that can push a lot of current, which pretty much rules out most low-mid ( maybe even high) powered tube amps. When I mentioned this to the person doing the d... | |
| Audible High Pitched Hum... Advice Needed @ajnackman Why do you have the streamer grounded to the same place as the phono? That's a recipe for a ground loop. Won't the streamer work without grounding it? | |
| Preamp - what's the purpose? either is ok, modified sound with pre or pure sound with no pre. once you feel pure taste with no sauce, you will remove the preamp! @r27y8u92 I have LPs and CDs I recorded. I find that using a preamp gets me more neutral sound as the preamp i... | |
| Are your record surfaces as silent as CDs? Technically, vinyl can only give you about 60db S/N exclusive of the pre-amp (although different vinyls these days provide somewhat better that that) @pcolvin Actually LP surfaces can be quite a bit lower noise than that. Acoustic Sounds found ... | |
| Excellent Solid State or Hybrid Monoblocks Recommendations I suspect that the gan fet is a chunk of this progress assuming it is well implemented. I am gonna pick up some class D monoblocks in the near future..... @jaymark What GaNFETs bring to the table is low noise. You really do want a class D amp ... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? Should spatial perception x what you describe differ for, say, bass in outdoor setups (I am sorry - I realize this is slightly tangential from the OP query)? @benanders Outdoors we can sort out where bass notes come from. But in most rooms indoor... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? is this statement meant to rule out bass as being important to listener perception of soundstage? @benanders Yes. Bass (20Hz to about 150Hz) is important if you want to get the tonality right but it has little to do with imaging and sound stage... | |
| Preamp - what's the purpose? Sitting a few meters away from my loudspeakers, the first watt alone gives me roughly 80db of volume. I think these amps are biased to expect the line level signal directly. Why wouldn't the designer do that? So what's the point of adding a pre-... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? I have a pair of Thiel CS6 speakers that dip to around 2 ohms in part of the frequency spectrum. I run them with a Krell KSA 300S that doubles its power down to one ohm (300 watts @ 8 ohms, 2400 watts @ 1 ohm). When I took the amp in for recappin... | |
| To loom or not to loom? So I must ask as a mfr of both tube and GaN amplification what have been your experiences and are their brands and types of cables you prefer. @audio_is_subjective64 Because we made the first balanced line preamps and amps for home use it didn’... | |
| Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers @izjjzi I can't speak for other class D designs. The sound varies from one class D to another more than it does with class A amps or tube amplifiers- IOW quite a lot. But I know how our stuff sounds. For reference I use LPs and CDs that I recor... |