Recent content by atmasphere

I looked at the McIntosh site and saw what they say about this. I think they are more interested in keeping distortion down. If you use a transformer (or autoformer) to couple a solid state amp to a lower impedance, you can get lower distortion. Any amp without such a device will have higher...

That might be so, if you used them to step up rather than down.

Usually not enough power for a set of Sound Labs due to their high impedance.

If you have Sound Labs and you want to go with low heat you will have to run some kind of solid state amp that (in most rooms) is rated 800 Watts into 8 Ohms. As you know the speaker has a 30 Ohm peak in the bass. Effectively that means divide the 8 Ohm rated power by 4. That is also why our...

In a situation like this it always seems to come down to 'in comparison to what?' I'm used to class A tube amps as opposed to class A solid state; traditionally the former are often cited as being smoother, more detailed and 'more involving'. I can say I've heard class D amps that do that just...

When making a statement like this you need to be careful of your limited selection; they do not represent all class D amps made! I've found they vary more in sound quality than tube amps do. Some are really terrible, some are boring, some play no bass and so on. But some sound really quite...

This statement is false. I stated them exactly as I meant them. I cannot be responsible if you fail to understand them. You'll note, for example, that you are trying to say that I said the ocean was rising. I instead was stating that my mom observed it was either than or the land she was on as...

Its equally easy to see that you misread my statements and prefer your misstatements to the actual meaning I was attempting to impart.

Sorry! That's not the intention. I did mention earlier that when we try to lead our lives as if our made up stories about it are real, when life does not agree, that is the source of all human suffering, such as your being "sick of it". I try really hard to not use innuendo. If you try to read...

This statement is false. Actual text.

Yes- even if we are influencing it, its really obvious humans have no control! The Younger Dryas (named for a wildflower) interrupted the warming trend at the end of the last Ice Age. It's an excellent example of how quickly Earth's climate can shift. That's not an excuse. You seem to be...

Yes. I didn't say water levels were rising. My mom correctly surmised that it was time to move on. It was anecdotal.

Hm. I just read that article. Its a bit apocryphal in its own right most out of what seems like contempt. And of course 'opinion' is right there in the URL. Its hard for humans to really have perspective on things like climate change, since our time here is so brief. But I remember back in the...

Totally FWIW Dept.: My mom had a house on Ft Myers Beach Island. She had a dock; when she bought the house high tide was about a foot below the deck. But after 20 years of ownership, she noticed that the water was getting over the deck of the dock and into her neighbor's back yard. She figured...

Where has that happened? Huh? When you go to an electric lawnmower you really won't want to go back. So much easier!! The infrastructure for electric stoves (and mowers) has been around for about 70-80 years at this point. The real issue is probably electric cars. The oil industry has been...