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| More Questions about Tube Noise Hi Fatparrot,Yer darn tootin' that guitarists overdrive tubes to get that fat, rich sound and would not tolerate transistor in that application. But there is a difference between the desirable (from the artist's point of view) sound of a tube bein... | |
| Do step up transformers degrade sound? And, to get back to Cbird1's original question: step-up transformers, like any device connected to (and I sometimes suspect, placed anywhere near) an audio system, will indeed *change* the sound. Whether you think it improves it, degrades it, or s... | |
| More Questions about Tube Noise All active devices make noise. By "active" I mean parts like transistors, FETs, MOSFETs, tubes and such things that do amplification. Heck, even resistors, which are purely passive parts make noise as a function of the random electron movement wit... | |
| Can a cheater plug ever damage an amp's pwr supply As title sez. | |
| Can a cheater plug ever damage an amp's pwr supply Classe knows better than to assume that everyone has three-wire wiring in the house. It's unlikely that the third prong of the AC Mains cord for requied for anything necessary to the functioning of the amplifier . . . though there might be some ki... | |
| Retro Hi End Trivia Question Nope -- the Switching Class-D amp (or "SWAMP" as it was called in-house)predated the HCA by a couple years. It did fail spontaneously and the reason why was never learned despite considerable research. I think that model had just gone out of produ... | |
| Retro Hi End Trivia Question Hey Cwlondon,Hi-fi nostalgia. Totally perfect retro system. I remember the same setup. I worked at Infinity in the late-70's . . . weren't we meant to use the Black Widow with a Grado in order to be totally in step with the Best Thinking of the ti... | |
| a new amp hum problem...checked the archives If the hum eminates from the chassis and not from the speakers then it's quite likely that the amp has a noisy transformer. You'll want to check with the manufacturer to see about getting an amp with a quiet transformer. There's nothing you can do... | |
| What are your thoughts of the Tower design of amps I've had a lot of opportunity to listen to my amp new designs in both "flat" (horizontal) and "tower" (vertical) arrangements. The circuitry that I provide in my upgrades for older Counterpoint SA-type amps go into those older horizontal chassis, ... |