atmasphere
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| Preamp advice @tubesound247 Your amp has balanced inputs so I would consider a balanced preamp as the amp itself will work better simply on that account. If you consider going that direction, there is a balanced line standard known as AES48. This standard help... | |
| A phono preamp with equalization selector @elliottbnewcombjr Nice piece! Take another look at that front panel. The EQ curves were very much standard by then. 'NAB' is a tape equalization. RIAA and the 'RCA Orthophonic' curves were pretty much the same thing; RIAA being for stereo. AES a... | |
| Questions Regarding Installing a Wheaton Triplanar On A SOTA Cosmos @lewm I've seen plenty of Technics machines with the Triplanar, one of them being owned by Tri Mai of Triplanar. @neonknight You'll need a new arm board of course. Why are you concerned about the cable routing? Is it a cosmetic thing? | |
| Looking for 200 watt Amp to drive Dynaudio Heritage speakers 200W into 8 ohms. 100 amperes peak per channel. 45 lbs @som FWIW Dept.: The 100A has nothing to do with the output power just so you know. That’s probably the current that flows when the power supply is shorted for 10ms. I guarantee that if 1... | |
| Yes, cables do make a difference -- regardless of price... I commonly hear people say that they want their system to sound like the "real thing". But of course that is never going to happen since you do not know what the "real thing" originally sounded like. What you mean, I suspect, is that you want i... | |
| Looking for 200 watt Amp to drive Dynaudio Heritage speakers Owning relatively insensitive speakers myself (sensitivity of 86 dB at 2.83 Vrms and 1.0 meter on axis) that also have a low’ish impedance (4 Ω nominal, 3 Ω minimum, low reactance), but a high power handling capability, has led me to appreciate h... | |
| Class D, "Control (Variable Gain)," Amplifier versus Class A/B Separates? @eddnog There are class D amps now that don't take a back seat to class A or AB amps; very different from just a few years ago. | |
| Looking for 200 watt Amp to drive Dynaudio Heritage speakers Your comment in the OP is probably the reason they were not recommended, because they are only rated at 100 wpc into 8Ω. @mitch2 The speakers in question are 4 Ohms. | |
| Yes, cables do make a difference -- regardless of price... The hardware part of the system is simple: Audio Technica Cardioid Condenser Microphone AT2035 connected with a XLR cable to the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 preamp. @crozbo I've said this many times on line; if your equipment supports AES48 then th... | |
| Looking for 200 watt Amp to drive Dynaudio Heritage speakers So I decided to give the Dynaudio HS speakers a whirl with the Conrad Johnson amp which is 125 watts per channel. I didn't expect much, but was sort of blown away. The CJ amp totally opened up the speakers in a way I didn't expect and made me rea... | |
| Subwoofer xLr connection According to the manual, the 1000X assumes that line level and XLR inputs are going to come from the LFE output of a home theater processor and the internal crossover is bypassed. So some form of external bass management IS required if using this... | |
| Amp, Preamp, two volume pots, there can be only one! in theory which specs would the amp need to have to play along with my preamp? @neverlast Find one that takes 2Volts or more for full output. If the amp is properly designed, that will drop your noise floor about 15 dB and will make your volum... | |
| Subwoofer xLr connection @alanpiga If you are using a powered sub it has all the bass management you need, which is why preamps don't have it. | |
| Who out there wants to, or has, validated an amazing cable find? I did mention the insulation on the Mogami is PE and the jacket is PVC. @jim2 Sorry- somehow I missed that. Thanks for the blast from the past about feedback. The reason zero feedback is used is to prevent distortion rising with frequency. But ... | |
| Class D Amplifier(s) for SWARM Subwoofer System @peter_s As I mentioned before, if one of your cables is wired out of phase with the other then the sub amp will only play out of phase bass information. IOW it would sound weak. So check your interconnect cables to see if they are both wired corr... |