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    Atma-Sphere MA-2 Amplifier

    Now all I need is enough PV capture and energy cell storage to offset my MA-1s! :)
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    Atma-Sphere MA-2 Amplifier

    Ah! Silver Editions (like mine)!
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    Atma-Sphere MA-2 Amplifier

    Perhaps you could just acquire some socket riser plugs to raise up a couple of the tubes. That’s what I’m doing
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    Shunyata Grounding System

    I believe this statement clearly illustrates that sockets within a duplex are not (completely) isolated from one another, but duplex to duplex is, ah?
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    First Watt SIT-4

    monos to follow! ❤️❤️
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    Shunyata Grounding System

    We can surmise whatever we want, but Caelin Gabriel has made it perfectly clear in his depiction of noise reduction strategies that it is not a single plug-in device or single methodology that completely obliterates the problem… because the introduction of noise is parasitic throughout our audio...
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    Hydra Typhon T2

    I’ve probably mentioned this before somewhere here but, funny enough, I really like the sound of my MA-1 OTL mono blocks plugged into a Denali V2 as opposed to being plugged directly into the wall. And these certainly draw a fair bit of current. The result is noticeably better micro dynamics and...
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    How far should speakers be placed away from walls to eliminate smearing from early reflections?

    No two rooms are the same. My current and best ever dedicated listening space, is a very odd shape and posed some challenges. What I immediately liked is that being a basement location it keeps very quiet from outside noise. The gray painted, dampened hvac ducts and drain pipes, but otherwise...
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    Aesthetix Io Users Group

    Yes, vinyl changes something. Subtle. I’ve noticed the same thing from listening to a good digital recording, digitally, and then, the same recording off of a vinyl. Again often, the vinyl chain or perhaps “vinyl paradigm” resonates with human bodies and emotions.
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    Atma-Sphere Class D Mono blocks

    They make Love not War (now)
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    Atma-Sphere Class D Mono blocks

    I have both Chinese brands you mentioned. But only in pairs for sampling on a headphone amp. I imagine if they sounded real good there I might consider looking into a full load for the MA-1s. The signal tubes, 6SN7GT(A/B) was what I was referring to. Power tube wise I have a lot of Svetlana...
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    Atma-Sphere Class D Mono blocks

    Night and Day, and most of, if not all of the spectrum in between :)
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    Atma-Sphere Class D Mono blocks

    I’ll say this, it is only viable by and large to offer a product with currently available perishables. Call VTS Andy (or equivalent, if there is such a thing) he will set you up putting some Sylvania tubes in those MA-1s and you will be floored by the difference. I promise. Thank me later. As...
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    Atma-Sphere Class D Mono blocks

    I will add a bit to my first impressions. This whole hobby/pursuit comes down to personal tastes and to any outsider, what might seem to be infinitesimal neuance. Yet for us, it is the essence of what collectively allows a state of suspended disbelief. Where we simply let go (of everything) and...

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