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An Audio Amplifier Design Philosophy
By David Berning ( Courtesy Meta-Gizmo.com )
I became interested in audio at a very young age because I liked music, but was too uncoordinated to be able to p...
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The best hi-fi LF I have heard came from modified "pro" units (multi-15s) that had a LOT of power thrown at them; and furthermore, the system was "managed" by an... equalizer (albeit, done in real time...). This is not to speak of its FR performance...
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Romy wrote:"...did you see a lot of Britain's orchestra to be able for tonal extravaganza?..."I have Schubert's 9th by the following:London Symphony Orchestra/Joseph KripsBerlin Philharmonic/Gunter WandBerlin Philharmonic/Karl BöhmUnknown Orchestra/U...
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...I'd have deleted it too. The essay was way more about you than the music, and the sideswipes at BMI were entirely gratuitous.Their review of the M2 was however the most frivolous piece of writing about serious music I've read since, oh, 1958.The p...
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Hi, WojtekAs soon as you find a sonically-comparable amp that's less trouble, please let me know. At this point it does appear that a certain amount of vigilance is part of the price of admission.Of course I was (mostly) joking about losing the...
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Since most likely the most of the site visitors did not pay attention to my post about this strange composer with unpronounceable first name I decided to place a two fragments from one of the Kálmán operetta: The Gipsy Princess (Die Csardasfurs...
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Well, Romy, it took me a while but I finally got the cobwebs cleared out of the phono stage, and the Shostakovich 10th was totally engaging as music (via the TAP). The recording is the (late 60s) Melodiya (stereo) with Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR Syp...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]The load lines are horrible. I can't imagine it gives a very accurate representation of what is fed into it. Maybe that's not what you are after.[/quote]It is not that I completely agree (or completely understand) the Eduar...
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[quote user="dazzdax"]Hi Roman, FM Acoustics amplifiers from Switserland have been regarded by many audiophiles (mostly the ones with lots of money) as the best sounding (solid state) amps regardless of price. They even bettered the best amps from Kr...
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If you followed, a few days ago in the conversation with “Michaelz” I was spinning my usual plot, bitching that most of the today’s pianists play, unintelligent as senseless, almost like with the "rubber fingers”:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/...
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Hi all, Just joined the cat house... funny seeing the mention of some old stomping grounds here... like Bendix in Red Bank, NJ... they were one of my accounts back in the late 70's. As some of you may know, the U.S. Army's electronics center was...
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In reference to the two (or three) prototypes, the base design contains one (1) driver, a second proposal to the base design uses two (2) drivers (using almost the same exact enclosure--an increase of volume/area in the chamber containing the two [2]...
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Hi,[quote user="morricab"]As to the best transformers souding more transparent than the best resistors, I'll believe it when I (don't?) hear it. You claim to have heard this but I most certainly haven't. [/quote] Well, the claim is no...
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I heard back from Lamms about the relay pulses. They suggested I bias the amps again and then Lamms went silent when that didn't work. But the problem disappeared when I got around to replacing the 12AX7s that came with the amps.&nbs...
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Following the recent thread about the Prokoviev’s “Hale to Stalin” I would like to pitch to the choral music lovers one more name. Russian Orthodox liturgy mostly sucks. There was a dozen of Russkis composers who composed Russian chants: Totov, Grech...
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[quote user="skushino"]So next week I will broaden my playback experience by adding my new 90wpc PP mastadon, and Romy's approved Lamm ML-2, in addition to my current DRD-300B amps. And as a personal favor to the readers at ...
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[quote user="Paul S"] …. No, I can’t get Beethoven’s 9th just right, but then I don’t presently aim to. Call me a quitter, but I just mostly gave up quite a few years ago… [/quote]
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]… There are many-many release...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Folding introduce a bunch
of resonating chambers and cost audio coloration in most of the cases that do MASK
OUT the transient dynamics but folding itself should not have an impact to dynamics
itself.[/quote]Might be the...
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Yes, it's true.The original pressing is always the best. There has never been an audiophile version that is an improvement to the Sound. They may have a quieter surface, fewer scratches, pops, and less overall noise, in fact the sounds may be better...
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Wojtek, I am indeed hemmed in by the fricking electricity these days, to the extent that it is about impossible to hold on to a baseline for reference. And the Lowthers only make the problem more apparent.Yes, I still wonder about how I wo...
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Why use the GM70 apart from its power potential? For one thing, it seems to require literally lethal voltages to become remotely listenable. Is it really "that" linear, to insist on it?But my experience with GM70 is quite imited. I ...
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This is very interesting subject. As many times I went to live concerts with somebody I never remember that a person was listening problem. There were people who underdressed or over-dress, the people who over-used perfume, the damp people who read ...
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[quote user="HDTT"]I beg to differ with Romys assesment of my signature sound, one thing I found out is people are very,very different in what they like and dislike. An example is a "quote" reviewer (which will remain nameless) did not like my Stravi...
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OK, maybe it needs a bit more detail ,or say perspective as regards to this audio-cooking effort. NO QUESTION, we first have to look after the object before we joy-ride, or joye-feast, oh yes! I mentioned quality and caring somewhere just a short...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]The Ultimate turntable only needs to provide for one arm. The ultimate arm. Why compromise its performance with various inferior arm designs.[/quote] Well, certainly a single ultimate arm would be a good thing but I still w...
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I was involved many years ago (1985), in the design and manufacture of a 'low mass' turntable called the Voyd. This suspended design used 3 papst external rotor synchronous motors to drive a very light acrylic (and later polycarbonate) platter. The i...
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Herman, horn dimensions does not described by size of driver but only size of throat. It will be absolutely nothing changed in the horn dimensions if you go from between 10" and 12" driver. Sure you would need a bit larger back side of the horn to ac...
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Romy says:[quote]The problem is that in context of those amplifiers the COST BECOMES THE MAJOR DESIGN IMPEDIMENT[/quote]Yes, but it shouldn't -- should it?Let's be reasonable (a tall order). Either a designer knows how to design or not. If he doesn;t...
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Hi Romy,I see now you are throwing around the term "absolute tone" in a relative manner again :) . Why would you want to neutralize absolute tone and with a metal tweeter no less!! You are talking about a tweeter "absolute tone" offsetting a po...
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As many manufactures I know who is close enough with me to talk with me honesty, all of them agreed that they produce quite mediocre audio products. Do not take me wrong, all of them claimed that their creations are better then competitor, that their...
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