xenolith
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| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode FWIW, Gary Dodd, shortly before he died in 2015, was contracted by a very rich person who heard his "Blue Monster" amps: to build the "best sounding amplifier possible; even better than the Blue Monsters." What he came up with was monoblocks... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode Shudder is right. Thank you for your excellent contributions dogeared. | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode In audio reproduction, linear is sexy. Ultra linear is ultra sexy. | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode No back pedal. I’ve told the forum what I said; please tell tell us what you think I said. | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode That's not what I said viridian. What I said is that there are two rational conclusions that can be drawn from the information provided, and that for ghdprentice's sake, I hope it's one conclusion instead of the other that he is experiencing. If... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode @ghdprentice: I, and presumably atmasphere, and all other rational thinkers, would rationally conclude that your amps are optimized for triode topology...and, necessarily, that the ultralinear topology was added, presumably as a gimmick, to presum... | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode atmasphere said: That’s a bit different from saying that it will ’work’; sure it will play but the output transformer should be optimized for a particular tube. This is almost certainly the most salient content that this thread will produce. You ... | |
| An audio component you just can't let go There are 3: Dodd Balanced Power Supply, Dodd Battery Powered Preamp and Charlie Cocci Ultimate Monoblocks (the only 2 that will ever exist). | |
| Dodd Audio Preamp I run a 2006 Dodd Battery Powered Preamp with the Dodd (read: Gary) strapped left/right battery banks modification. Nothing has ever unthroned it. As always, excellent advice from bdp24; Danny will likely know the exact preamp you are... | |
| Food: what does the typical audiophile eat? 1/3 acre in organic produce. 144 heirloom tomatoes of 23 varieties are a part of it. | |
| B&W Bass Alignment filter Adjustments Do no harm. Get rid of it. | |
| Warm vs Revealing—the struggle for balance Amps that can run multiple types of output tubes are, by design, compromises. They don't optimize signal transfer of any output device, so all possible output devices are not optimized with respect to signal transfer in their operation. For som... | |
| Not sure for power conditioner my amp or not. @johnnycamp5: Right, toroidal transformers don't perform well for balanced power supply systems. Although nobody ever sells theirs because they're awesome, the Dodd Balanced Power Supply, the unit that you'll see powering the electronics at all ... | |
| Not sure for power conditioner my amp or not. Agree that power conditioners aren't good for amplifiers. However, balanced power supplies are good for amplifiers. | |
| KT-77 vs. KT-66 @jjss49: excellent point. The designer/builder of our 75 lb. 100w monoblocks which run 2 x 6BL7 + 4 x KT77 told me (paraphasing) ’everything is designed around optimizing sound from KT77s. The only other output tube that can be correctly biased (t... |