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Omni Gon The Final Phonostage
All tubes - all triode - up to 4 pairs SUT. The one mentioned and offered by ALF does feature 4 different MC inputs (each which it's own SUT) and 1 MM phono input. An unique passive RIAA phono EQ. All hard wired point-to-point. Each tubes has it's own tube heater supply.- DDB
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Omni Gon The Final Phonostage
It is not a cathode follower output stage ....:cool: The signal to noise depends on the tubes - 82 to 88 dB/1 V output / unweighted.- DDB
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Omni Gon The Final Phonostage
:cool: In total about 2 dozen people ..... elusive club :cool:- DDB
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Omni Gon The Final Phonostage
A few details - the easy stuff ..: Phono specs for OmniGon s/n 10 (ALF's): RIAA accuracy (20 Hz to 20 kHz): better than +/- 0.1 dB. Phono linear phase derivation (DLP) 20 Hz to 20 kHz phono MM: less than + 0.2° Phono linear phase derivation (DLP) 20 Hz to 20 kHz phono MC (3-6 Ohms): less than...- DDB
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Tube Rolling: Friend or Foe?
I need to add my 2 cents here with a caveat. Having built tube based SETs as well as preamplifiers there is one mechanical detail often over-looked when rolling the tube (dice ...): While most tube pins - noval as well as octal (the later however much more sensible to this ..) - are reasonably...- DDB
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- Forum: Vacuum Tube Audio Forum
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System Builders, How Does Your System get a SOUL?
That is certainly an important part of the game, but not the one and only - I would name it ( the reduction of distortion) a kind of logical and inevitable by-product along the path.- DDB
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- Forum: General Audio Forum
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System Builders, How Does Your System get a SOUL?
I think ( know .... ?) there are firm rules and a good cookbook for putting together and setting up an audio system which allows for soul in the reproduction of recorded music. I know too, that it is certainly not wanted to publish such cookbooks, as they would inevitably get in the way of...- DDB
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- Forum: General Audio Forum
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System Builders, How Does Your System get a SOUL?
Well - I have built SET amplifiers with 845, 805, 300B, PX4, RE604, AD1, WE 275A and VT52 - the first pair as long back as 1990. I know their virtues very well. A 98 dB speaker with 4 ways and a Xover with 3rd or 4th order filters will not be to the liking of any SET - not even a WaVac HE833. It...- DDB
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- Forum: General Audio Forum
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System Builders, How Does Your System get a SOUL?
First - in my honest opinion an amplifier with "big iron" (big power) should never be necessary. A high power amplifier with the most often going with it higher damping factor is only needed for inefficient speakers which do need a lot of control - most often the case with vented woofer cabinet...- DDB
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System Builders, How Does Your System get a SOUL?
A system with soul ( in any definition ... ;-) ... ) needs a speaker system which works with the power amplifier. Sounds easy - is hardly ever obtained in high-end audio. The loudspeaker and the power amplifier(s) connected to it do form a team - the output stage of the power amplifier and the...- DDB
- Post #37
- Forum: General Audio Forum
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Omni Gon The Final Phonostage
SPQR ? - that stands since about 2300+ years for Senatus PopulusQue Romanus ......- DDB
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Living Presence
Beyond those curtains is a breathtaking panorama indeed. Clear view to the Bavarian Alps in close range ..... this listening room is at 2500 feet altitude and surrounded by nature to match the sound.- DDB
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- Forum: Members' Systems
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Omni Gon The Final Phonostage
... it's laser engraved - not silk-screened ........ ;-) ...- DDB
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Living Presence
The Musikvereinsaal in Vienna is a happy example of very old architectonic principles consequently (if maybe be coincident...) applied to form a wonderful acoustical result in action. You'll find very similar ratio ( the golden ratio that is ... ) in the hall's dimensions here as you will in...- DDB
- Post #56
- Forum: Members' Systems
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Living Presence
Thank you for the welcome NorthStar! While there are a lot of good - read: well designed acoustics - modern concert halls around today, we have and had - just as many great sounding halls from years long gone. Conserved on many great stereo record(ing)s from the 1950ies/60ies/70ies.- DDB
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- Forum: Members' Systems
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Living Presence
Oh oh .... that is much more than just a bold statement .... ;-) ...- DDB
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Living Presence
Well, I remember the past vividly - and it wasn't always as it is now. We do not have to go back as far as the 1950ies. Let's go back to the days just before the Internet took over High End Audio. MylesBAstor you will certainly agree that back in the late 1980ies we did care about fidelity when...- DDB
- Post #37
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Living Presence
Frantz, I couldn't agree more. High Fidelity has been abandoned by most all so called "audiophiles" today. Sad story, but maybe just a sign'o times.... D.- DDB
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