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Atma-sphere Updates

As some of you know I have had a few pieces of equipment updated by the Atma-Sphere Crew. I picked them up on the used market. Otherwise, I’d never be able to afford such quality gear.  First would like to say I have never seen a company in which it’s employees take so much pride in their work.  Hats off to Ralph and everyone at Atma-Sphere. Best CS I’ve ever had with any company. And I do mean ever...
   Secondly I have had a pair of M60’s 3.0, and a pair of MA-1’s 3.1 updated to 3.3 versions. Also had Adam Hot Rod my UV-1 to the Hottest UV-1 ever built. A couple friends had MP-3’s updated to 3.3 status also. In each case of the Amps and MP-3’s they came back like a completely different piece of gear.  The updates  are such a difference it’s hard to believe it’s the same piece I dropped off.  The UV-1 was a big difference but not as dramatic. But it is a very simple bare bones circuit.  I would strongly suggest if anyone hasn’t updated to the current model 3.3 you really should. You will not be disappointed in anyway. Especially on the Amps, incredible. Also Ralph gives you a brand new 3 year warranty when you update. Pretty hard to beat that. It’s like having a new system. 
  Simply put the 3.3 update is incredible. Everything sonically is improved. Which makes for a dramatic presentation upgrade. Ralph took great pieces of gear and made them incredibly better. His 3.3 update was the biggest advancement I think he’s had in my opinion.  My MA-1’s will be my forever amps. Now I dream of owning an MP-3. 

Atma-sphere fanboy I am self admitted.... lol
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almarg
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I am sure there are more fair minded and gracious producers in the business that are more deserving of our support.

Nothing could be further from the truth, in my opinion and I believe the opinion of countless other members here.

Throughout the eleven years in which I have been an active participant in this forum my perception has been that Ralph has been far and away the most constructive, informative, helpful, gracious, and gentlemanly member of the industry who has participated here.

And in contrast to countless members here both within and not within the industry, he has just about invariably reacted with great restraint when faced with provocative comments. And if he chooses to respond to your comment, I’m sure his response will serve as an illustration of exactly that.

Disclaimer: I have never owned any of Ralph’s products, and I have no connection with him or his business other than as a member of this forum.

Regards,
-- Al

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atmasphere
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Regardless of the general quality or sound quality of the Atmasphere products I would not touch the stuff because Atmasphere seems to feel it is necessary to denigrate perceived competitors on this forum in a manner which could easily be seen as malicious.
@jtgofish Can you point to any of these posts? Believe it or not I specifically avoid this sort of thing; in particular I'm not aware of a company that I perceive as a 'threat'. We do examine market trends to see if we need to respond to them but not individual companies.


Most of my involvement on social media like this site is because I worked for years during and after college servicing consumer electronics. I enjoy troubleshooting so if I do some of that on this site. While I was working in service departments the other thing I learned and enjoy is how to describe technical/engineering concepts into layman's terms. 
yyzsantabarbara
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Just last night I went to the What's Best forum to the Atmasphere forum. I had come across a story on a cable company called Audio Envy and that story brought back to my memory the A'gon conversation I had with @atmasphere about interconnects. I wanted to see what his customers were saying on WBF, specifically about interconnects.

I have not found anything he mentioned as negative on other brands. He answered questions for me on other brands I am interested in, specifically Benchmark and Luxman, and made recommendations based on the use case I was considering (very long XLR cable runs).

Long story short I am going to do exactly as he suggested to me with the interconnects.  So thank you. 
audition__audio
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jtgofish,

Ralph has always shown great restraint and goes the extra distance in giving technical explanations to back up just about everything he posts. I think you have the wrong person or you have some axe to grind which is not related to Ralph's participation on these forums. Examples please!
jtgofish
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Atmasphere you know very well the comments I am alluding to.Playing dumb just makes you look worse.Yes some of the worst of those comments have been deleted but only because people like me have reported them to the administrators who have then acted correctly and removed them.

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