Ron’s New System
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Yes. It is funny that some people accept and love the idea of using tubes in parallel at input stages to lower noise and get upset with the idea of using power tubes in parallel.
Surely the equivalent plate resistance becomes lower, a good thing in my opinion. Others prefer the "magic" of low damping factor, that surely can be useful in particular cases.
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I'm having a big audio friends event at the house today to demo the Clarisys speakers and a new Aries Cerat preamp.
I think you would really enjoy hearing the system if you can swing by between 1 PM and 5 PM!
Text me at 310-880-9000 and I will immediately send you the address!
Hi Ron,
I talked a bit about the Incito S here;
Silver Slagle Autoformer
I took the plunge as I continue to investigate top of the line active preamplifiers here to understand how they interact in my system. So far, some positive and mostly negative results in the $25K range of preamps that have passed by here over the last few months. I wanted to try the EMIA...
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At the time I had the ARC Ref6se , and CH L1 along with the Slagle autoformer more or less one after the other -- the ARC was in for just a few days while the the AC and CH were in for a few weeks.
Just one reminder. I think AC preamp output 180 out of phase. Better double check.
More bang for the buck is the sentiment. However we seen no expense spared in devices with a hundred Dulend capacitors. So the argument is not overly useful in concept, only per person and their needs.
12 vs 2 has a lot to do with design. IME the goals tend to be different. However in similar circumstances it becomes more like choosing the spectrum position of blue you want, they look really different until you throw in Solutions or whatever and it is red.
There are limits to low damping factor. You can make a current driven amp that'll delaminate and shoot the driver cones across the room if you so desired. It certainly is not an endless benefit. Frankly some of these tube setups sound so much like mush the instruments are not even identifiable but maybe it sounds more like vinyl, even while playing vinyl, than another one?
That would be Paul Speltz's autoformers.
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That would be Paul Speltz's autoformers.
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Which when applied respectively to my pairs of Quad 57 , Quad 63 , Quad 2905 and lastly Martin Logan CLX Anniversary resulted in nothing discernibly positive , whilst producing an overall dampening effect on dynamics etc . My pair were ‘’Naked’’ Zero’s . They were moved on which was a shame as I had high hopes based on no little due diligence before hand. As ever YMMV etcetera .
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Hi @morricab ,
How do you find your ACT records?
I see you have one down in the right corner of the picture.
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I think their digital streams on Qobuz sound at least as good as the vinyl, which are not the best pressings. My favourite older ECM LPs, in contrast, sound much better than digital.
That would be Paul Speltz's autoformers.
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No, I was addressing the original Atmasphere Z-music autotransformers, I owned them with the MA50 and when I got the MA2 I sold them to Paul Spetz, as I was not needing them anymore. The current Zero's are toroidal, as far as I remember the Atmasphere ones had EI cores.
If you have both current and Voltage feedback in the same amp its possible to vary the output impedance without affecting gain or distortion of the amp. Fisher and ElectroVoice did this in the 1950s before the Voltage drive rules for loudspeakers became accepted.
Depending on the amp you may not have needed them. The ZEROs, like the earlier ZMusic autoformers, were/are meant as problem solvers. But if the amp can drive the speaker directly they are not any help. Our OTLs can drive ESL57s and ESL63s directly so I would not recommend either autoformer for that purpose.
Yes. I've not seen a set of those in decades. They gave our amps the ability to drive a 1 Ohm load. I heard a set of our early MA-1s using them to drive a set of the now ancient, 1 Ohm Apogee Full Range speakers at a reviewer's house and they worked just fine.