holmz
Responses from holmz
| Cable burn in Take speaker cable for example. All frequencies need to be transmitted equally without any timing changes and transients need to arrive at the speaker without change. Hmm, I'm wondering it house mains wire would be suitable. I think not. Yes ma... | |
| Primaluna or not Primaluna Like @buellrider97 mentioned The Quicksilver… and Bryson, Ayre, and a bunch of other SS amps can also sound pretty good. Less seems to be available in Class-D. And of course a bunch of the tube amps. Generally I find that the speakers and ro... | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts @jerryg123 - well @noske did not overtly call Americans idiots… it was a nuanced comment. There is something that I find off putting with having a laugh track to tell one when the funny parts happened. The movie Kenny, about a fellow working for... | |
| Phone preamp question Passive Preamplifier In essence is merely a volume control designed to attenuate the signal going from the source (usually a CD player) to the amplifier. Since it is passive, it has no inherent gain because it has no active components (tubes or t... | |
| Who is Gonna Buy A New Jeep Grand Wagoneer For the MacIntosh Stereo? Right after I put my cart before my horse. Which tone arm does it go on? | |
| Cable burn in Do streamer always play the same song? Or does the compression go up and down with internet bandwidth that is available? Like varying compression versus time of day? | |
| Phone preamp question You might disagree but you are still wrong. How can call something a preamplifier when does not amplify the signal? It sits where a preamp sits, and switches inputs like a preamp. Also most preamps attenuate, so the amplifier part is not ampli... | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts @jerryg123 - which one are you referring to as the nasty little bugger? I am somewhat perplexed as to how another forum can generate such vexation. | |
| Primaluna or not Primaluna My speakers are Tannoy Legacy Eaton. So you said, but I still don’t know them. It will use tube rectification and not solid state rectification (because I have heard solid state rectification takes away the tube sound). I am sure you’ve ... | |
| Primaluna or not Primaluna But will it really be enough for my 89dB speakers? At least they claims that. If you listen loud then the PL is probably better, and if it is quiet maybe you could get by with less watts. @holmz Why would you sell your Primaluna for ... | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts Unless you are a libertarian, neo-liberal or similar, ethics can be applied to business dealings: "rooted in" or "devoted to" is a bit of a straw man wrt @noske’s post. People have different ethics of course, so there’s room for debate there. I... | |
| Primaluna or not Primaluna PrimaLuna sounds pretty good. But I’d sell mine and get a Class-D if a buyer approached. What speaker are they pushing around? | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts Utterly disrespectful and unethical. It is a forum that is a business, so it is not an enterprise rooted in, or devoted to, ethics. | |
| Are Their any Tube Preamp with Home Theater Bypass? Yes, it is true that the tubes in a preamp will be “consumed” even when using HT bypass. Just keep in mind signal tubes in a tube preamp last longer than power tubes in a tube amp. 12AX7’s, for example, can last upwards of 10,000 hours. I’m about... | |
| A Question About Time Alignment Time Cohesion is making sure that the sound from the tweeter gets to your ears at the same time as the sound from the woofer. Lets say theres a piano sitting 10 feet in front of you and a cello sitting 6 feet in front. The sound of the cello hi... |