Yeah the AIC is very mid forwards by comparison. The Studio T still sounds like a 2A3 tube amp to me (and a very good one), in that I wouldn't...
Yes it’s a very linear sounding amp. 2A3 amps tend to be on the more linear side, and the V3/V4 Stratus skew that way aswell, but having replaced...
The Way Qobuz and for that matter protocols like UPnP or Squeeze serve the actual music, is it's just a HTTP file download. So there is no real...
I fixed one myself, again it’s not hard, though some the screws were a pain to get to. What headphone are you using with it, it’s probably never...
11-12 o’clock is fine, remember it’s not a linear pot, so 1/2 volume is closer to 10% power than it is to 50%. But I would tend to agree, the...
FWIW I actually have both an Egoista 845 and Studio T here. FWIW outside the cost of tubes, there wasn’t a huge price difference used between...
FWIW I broke mine trying to get it out, but it really is just squeeze the tabs at the top and bottom, and pull it out. Donald sent me a mouser...
Rectifiers there are 2 of them are discrete diodes to the left of the caps below the transformers.
Would be interesting to test a SE tube amp, I suspect it would be the the exact opposite of the IFI, with distortion increasing with volume rather...
It just means it has the expected 2nd Harmonic rich midrange that most people with limited tube amp experience tend to associate with tube amps....
You’re pretty limited in how far you can push an amp that’s designed to be linear sounding in that direction. It’s largely a function of the load...
Missed this when I responded yesterday, but this is probably normal. In most tube amps power is not regulated the voltage into B+ is controlled by...
283V would be about right for an a,p with 300V B+, you get some loss across the transformer primary, just from the static resistance of the coil....
Oh I agree, but it's somewhat orthogonal to my point. I understand the common vocab used to describe things, and yes I agree it's critical, I'm...
I think it's always interesting to go back to the language we use to try and describe the differences to see of there is anything there that might...
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