atmasphere
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| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem I conquer with you completely. There is something so natural about the way SET present music. What it does with distortion is true and theoretical but it must be preserving something vital to make music sound so "right". Having said that I am to... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem I have owned a 300b SET for 15 years and simply love it. However any DHT can be utilized in a SET amplifier. 2A3, 45, 211,805,GM70 etc. SET is not limited to300b. @charles1dad 300b is about as powerful as you can get and still claim hifi bandwi... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama I have issues with you saying negative reviews are because someone has an axe to grind. Maybe, but how does one define that? I can say too many positive reviews, such as the MQA fiasco in the main audio magazines tell me it is the EXACT OPPOS... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem @pani A 40 Watt SET will have real problems making bandwidth. That is why the smaller SETs sound better as @larryi pointed out. Do yourself a favor- if you want to get the most out of your amplifier dollar, its not going to happen with an SET of... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama I must say, as someone who spent decades in the journalism business, for both big and small news organizations, this is pretty much 180-degree opposite to fundamental journalist ethics. A journalist’s responsibility is first and foremost to prov... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama Your reply is part of the issue. A good reviewer is there to give information to their audience, not stroke the egos of the manufacturers. That was the way IT USED to be. I will use a car review as an example. How would you deal with a review l... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama @abnerjack You're forgiven as if I have anything to say about it and its all good. I agree, I am not nor are my products beyond reproach. A lot of manufacturers I know simply try to do the best they can, but none of us are perfect and there's a... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama @botrytis 'Bone to pick' can cover a wide range of issues. For example, the manufacturer could have said something online with which the reviewer disagrees. I agree this might look like condescension but I have seen this happen more than once. It ... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama - Where do we draw the line between constructive criticism and damaging feedback? @rowlocktrysail Generally speaking, a negative review (not one that is positive with a few minor beefs) should be looked upon as unethical. Here’s a list of why:... | |
| Help with XLR ICs. @zlone You might try a pair of Mogami Neglex XLR cables just for fun. They are not expensive and they are very good. | |
| 300b lovers Both were used to play the lacquer once for quality control, then off to the plating plant. Usually you don't want to play the lacquer at all- any playing degrades it. But you can cut outside the 12" diameter since the lacquer is 14"; in this w... | |
| 300b lovers Still out in the weeds dept.; Many phono preamp designers over the last 70 years have ignored the significance of a magnetic cartridge whose output is in parallel with the capacitance of the tonearm cable. Any time an inductor is in parallel wit... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? @dentdog Anything with a transformer (like an isolation transformer) is subject to the distortion made by the transformer itself. Generally speaking, to avoid excess distortion from the transformer it must not be loaded past 50% of its rated capac... | |
| Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner? Current limiting starts at the power cord. Any time you have a glorified power strip, like so many so-called 'power conditioners' seen marketed to the high end audio community, the power cord it uses will have a voltage drop. We recommend to our ... | |
| 300b lovers @alexberger , @lynn_olson mentioned earlier: Ralph brings up a very good point about feedback: the underlying theory assumes a distortionless summing point. (The summing point is the comparator input between signal input and the sampled output.)... |