Well that is good news.
I Take it that we shall now have Peter Aczel's Mission Pete Leoni's drive and the snake oil spotting skills of John Curl, this is going to be a route. Glad you are on board John
I feel I need to Google 'Byebee' because I've been trying to guess what it might be by the name and I just can't. I bet it's great value though.
Darn I am TRYING to. Here I am, a cheapskate with money in my fist and I can't find a product that does what I want. (preamp with crossover for stereo) The P5 is almost there, but I have had better luck with 4th order sub crossovers than second. NAD, Parasound, and Cambridge have about the only decent looking affordable preamps, and I still will have to build a crossover. I ordered a cheap Dolby Digital to stereo analog box to see if I can make the FIOS usable without an AVR. What a pile of brown stuff the AVR market is full of. So I am trying to go back to quality stereo in my living room.
Emotiva has some interesting looking preamps with crossovers.
You could also purchase some small farad ( picofarad really) caps and put them in series with a diy splitter interconnect.
You get a first order filter and save some costs.
Just buy the cheapies until you're dialed in; then decide if you wish to go up to $1 each for the nice polystyrenes.
Separate the preamp and the xover. Go see what Linkwitz labs have on offer for DIY, then build your crossover. Hack it if you want, maybe a better PSU. Then build a preamp, like a DCB1, you can get the pcbs from this site.
Sorry if off topic
Starting to mount parts from an EL 84 kit, solid state rectification.
From past experience with passive speaker crossovers, where I found orienting the inductors far from each other, and the windings 90* from each other's plane, and the woofers voice coil resulted in better sound,ought I do the same with the output transformers on this amp? Also considering putting the power transformer(torroidal) on an umbilical to get it away from the output transformers.
Or could I be directed to an appropriate thread?
Thanks.
Starting to mount parts from an EL 84 kit, solid state rectification.
From past experience with passive speaker crossovers, where I found orienting the inductors far from each other, and the windings 90* from each other's plane, and the woofers voice coil resulted in better sound,ought I do the same with the output transformers on this amp? Also considering putting the power transformer(torroidal) on an umbilical to get it away from the output transformers.
Or could I be directed to an appropriate thread?
Thanks.
Don't by Bybee's.
The emphasis on the full stop, or period as you Guys over the pond call it. it is one of the panicle's of snake oil and scams in high end audio that help give it a bad name, no other field would you buy a component without knowing what it does, what it is and other parameters.
I participated in an exhibition show presenting my company in a vinyl event for vinyl people making my company known to these people in case they need to service any of their audio equipment .
I made a nice stand but i had to pick up things from friends to make my stand look better ... Between things i was given also a plexiglass made rack to house a couple of sources and one diy amplifier to have some music on the stand .
The friend who gave me the rack said to me :
Take care of the rack not only is very pretty since plexiglass made and transparent but also between all my racks its the one that plays better ...
Kind regards
Sakis
I made a nice stand but i had to pick up things from friends to make my stand look better ... Between things i was given also a plexiglass made rack to house a couple of sources and one diy amplifier to have some music on the stand .
The friend who gave me the rack said to me :
Take care of the rack not only is very pretty since plexiglass made and transparent but also between all my racks its the one that plays better ...
Kind regards
Sakis
I build very nice speakers, thank you. Yes, the speakers are 90% of the sound.
With all I have learned about amplifiers, that has helped me be sure my speakers are easier to drive.
No problem, for EI core transformers, SOP is to orient the laminations 90 degrees to any other adjacent transformer. Toroids aren't nearly as sensitive....the choke on your LC power supply is the worst offender & is the greatest by far to likely make mechanical buzzing sounds. This is the one that should be mounted at the furthest corner possible, treat it like the plague, away from everything!
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Amplification is now, has been and will remain a solved problem. One could search for bad electronics now. The very existence of Bybees etc. ought to be proof enough. Crown Hafler etc etc etc.... issue over long. long ago. Speakers remain and will remain.
As far as I am concerned Bryston amps are likely to be the end of anyone's search for getting the amplifiers out of the worry bin. Wish I had 6 channels now.
Seriously, the days of preamps etc are all but over. The best sound system in the world is now an HPTC running any of dozens of pro audio cards in the world with DAs of 120db or better and JRiver Media Center doing all dsp and switching work. Seriously, it is over for all components save good amps. I am very very serious.That knowledge and power alone kills most snake oil in one swoop.
What is fascinating is when someone decides that something is a 'solved problem'. It might be said that Bryston makes a pretty good power amp, perhaps not the most sophisticated, but solid, and well built. It SHOULD answer the needs of most audiophiles, but there are other solutions that work at least as well.
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