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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Well, maybe a little cussing first to set the tone. The older SPU's are now well sought after, many will end up in collections at now over inflated prices probably in the Far-East where they are worshipped. I've heard a few older SPU's and even those...
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Well, when we are talking about Cogent we need clearly differentiate two things: the Cogent’s drivers and the Cogent’s installation. The problem is that since Cogent’s drivers are something so called “compression drivers” then their performance might...
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Romy,I have several power amplifiers each of which sounds different. I might enjoy some aspects of what one of them does but feel that it could do other things better. Another of the amplifiers might have different strengths and weaknesses. None of t...
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[quote user="jamesrm618"]The Vincent SP-T100 looks close "The SP-T100 is a hybrid mono block with tubes in the input stage where voltage is amplified. The power output Amplifier circuitry works without feedback." Nominal output power Class-A 8 Ohm: 1...
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My wife is a musician. She plays the trumpet in a small symphony orchestra,in a traditional brass band, and numerous small gigs around town. She has a lovely CD out and drove the first "tone-deaf" engineer insane while making it. Ultimately she was u...
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Romy wrote:"... I can’t open PDF file..."Here's the part of the Manual that covers design features and specs (no circuit diagram available):IntroductionThe CA10 is a 10 watts per channel Class-A stereo power amplifier capable of great musicality and ...
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[quote user="coops"]Mainly because of my young daughter I have been listening to mostly solid state amps, I have enjoyed 'Digital DoMain's' B1-a VFET, and am now listening to a German 'Audioprojeckte' CA10, 10 watt class A design, ( I will post a...
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I've used both tube and solid-state rectification over the years and much is well documented for power supplies, i.e., old ARRL manuals, Tube manuals, etc.. In most cases small value filter caps were shown, as you really couldn't get much in la...
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The “Enjoy His Music” published the old celebrated by many DIYers Herb Reichert’s article about his 300B amp ideas.
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0709/flesh_blood.htm
I read it before but reading it now, after a few years again...
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Adrian, Romy, (Dima), First, I most certainly agree that the textbook operating point for the 2A3 is not optimal and can be improved on, hence my own design from a few years ago. If you are sticking with a 2.5K load, you will simply not ge...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not care about all of Nilsson Pass amps; I feel that all the same and all are very sub-qualified. A few years back Mr. Pass went for his low-powered SS single-ended amps and they might be more interesting. The Cat[/qu...
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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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[quote user="morricab"] You are also right that to get everything you want from an output transformer requires a VERY expensive construction and top materials. However; even an expensive transformer is no guarantee of success. [/quote]
Sorry t...
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KM,
Very good points. There is one more moment that I would like to pay attention. The new prediction tubes are more powerful then vintage tubes. They all claim 1 extra watt because “better materials were used”. So, I wonder, if it would be possible...
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I talked for a couple of hours today with a local Solar Power technician, I sort of told him all the gear I have that would need to run on batteries and we got a shaky number; from that number he started calculating a bunch of panels and batteries a...
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Dear
I know that it is very difficult to evaluate others system without a physical visit.
Still i have a very general question about the "worst crossover point".
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I will address the low voltage DAC power supply first since it has multiple applications.The front end comprises a commercial 48/12 volt 20 watt dc/dc converter. This basically is used to provide 1000 volt isolation input to output otherwise you...
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We have tested live recordings against live sound, a recording of a jazz singer was done on Reel tape on an Ampex ATR modded machine with Fluxmagnetics heads etc. The microphone used was the legendary Telefunken stereo tube mic. no post producti...
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The problems with Smart Grids
by B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning
How is it that so many intelligent, inside-the-beltway environmentalists are buying into an eco-health-safety-finance debacle with the potential to increase...
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A local GSC member took me up to THE Show, in Newport Beach, CA. This was the first audio show I've attended in over 25 years. It was way more frenetic than any audio show I remember. Lousy sound everywhere, of course, and no good music, and the c...
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Anybody who ever tried SS amp with compressions drivers or the drivers of high-sensitivity that can be driven by minimum current knows how it works. Nelson Pass created with his First Watt project a lot of publicity to the idea. A few watts, in p...
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There is a German company VALVET High-End Amplification and they do a little 10 watter Single-Ended amp.
http://www.valvet.de/en/bricks/e1/
There are few similar to this. What is not clear is if they use caps in path and if they ...
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I have drawn up my 20Hz subwoofer horn in Google SketchUp 3D. This horn is more for home theater than for music. My smaller 40Hz loaded with B&C Speakers 8PE21’s is more musical and articulate. The 20Hz tapped horn is loaded with two Tang Ban...
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This thread has been pretty interesting overall. I've read most of it and would at least like to provide some feedback on the technical side of designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... at least from my personal experience. A few years back I decid...
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Hello Romy,
Your responce is valuable and I have some questions:
You say:
>>You load SET’s output a bit more and you have “richer” and “slower” sound and if you idle it more then you have “faster” and “punchier” sound...
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Rowuk, there is many implications of the incompleteness. The
systems not being able to verify itself is just one of them, it is how he
proved it. I less care about the proof methodology but the care about the
outcome from it. One of them is that i...
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I think I discovered something news that I never heard of. Again I do a lot of listening and lot of thinking, and while I'm experimenting with different operation parameter of my mid-bass I semi accidental caught one configuration that make...
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Considering all "cautions" mentioned by Paul and rawuk regarding SET capriciousness to crossover and speakers I am confident that I will NOT have any problems related to the above cautions of crossovers or speaker loads.
I use an active...
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