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| best preamp ever - cost is no object The problem here is that the audio industry in general has been lying for a very long time- decades. If a manufacturer, dealer or distributor's lips are moving, he's lying. Seems like everyone says they have the 'best' and the English language bei... | |
| What are the treasures in your vinyl library? Voyage 34 original (not the reissue!) by Porcupine Tree'Ear' album by Global CommunicationsS/T Emerson Lake & Palmer, pink Island originalVaughan Williams, Symphony #6 w/The Lark Ascending, 'half dog' EMIFurtwangler, 4 Last Songs w/Kirsten Fla... | |
| Need list of 92db speakers and above. I'll second the Zu Druids although technically they are a 2-way.Checkout the Lowther America site too. They also have a budget line of drivers that look pretty cool:http://www.nirvanaspeakers.com/nirvana.html | |
| Stand-alone phono amps? FWIW The MP-1 MkIII and the MP-3 preamps are both built with the intention of being a stand-alone phono preamp with volume control. There has been enough passive circuitry interjected prior to the final stage of gain so that gain stage/output buff... | |
| what makes a tube sound the way it does? Tubes overload easily. Tubes sound nice in overload. They act like a compressor.I gotta comment here: transistors and tubes overload equally easily. Neither has any particular dynamic range over the other. The rest of the above quote is true of tu... | |
| What do the different tube amp types mean? As far as sound goes, triodes sound the best but make the least power. Class A also sounds the best, but makes the most heat.Ultra-linear is an attempt to get a pair of pentodes to behave a little more like triodes, without sacrificing too much po... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Thanks! | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Audiobb, This is an interesting speaker- it seems like it has a dual woofer system, but apparently the second woofer is on a different circuit.So that would seem to make all the circuits 8 ohms. I would check with Silverline on this to be sure.Ask... | |
| Tube amps and speaker ohms Hi Gregm, you might ask Nelson Pass or Charlie Hanson of Ayre, both of whom make zero feedback designs. FWIW, negative feedback is a *destabilizing* feature in amplifier design, not a stabilizing one. This is a common misconception about feedback.... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Audiobb, I play heavy metal too and I also have a few friends in the heavy metal world and I opened for Therion when they toured here a couple of years ago. The start and stop of a Kick drum is *way* too slow for any sort of stop and start that mi... | |
| Reliability on Tubes Amplifiers and Prevention In hand wired amps (which do indeed last longer, especially in tropical environments) the wiring is not soldered to the tubes. Just thought I ought to clear that up.In a hand wired amp, the tube socket pins can move more freely, allowing the tube ... | |
| Hum from Atma-Sphere MP-1 Power Supply? It could also be the power supply cover. We've seen some of the covers resonate on older MP-1s that have had power supply updates without the transformer being updated. It does not mean that the transformer is bad, but it can cause the cover to vi... | |
| Tube amps and speaker ohms Normally the tube is a self harmonic generator ( that does not exist on the original signal/recorded signal )Raul, I would have thought you would have educated yourself better before making such an obviously false statement! You are in a lot more ... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Damping factor does not play much of a role in the sound of a speaker, previous posts notwithstanding! In fact damping factor is really a spec that gets touted a lot, but would seem to be mythological in its effects.Damping factor is a means of ex... | |
| Tube amps and speaker ohms The point of the topic was to ask the GENERALIZED question that tube amps prefer 8 ohm speakers(though even 8 ohm speakers can dip to 4 ohms on huge orchestral challenges).The answer to that is 'yes!', regardless of the tube amplifier technology. ... |