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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: The Name of the PP Triode/SS Hybrid by Paul S on 2012-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Are Any Powerful Amps Worth Using? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
Since I "forgot" to mention it before, the very interesting amp I mentioned up the thread is the Nat Audio Generator monoblock, a Serbian PP triode/SS hybrid of some sort.  Now that I have the MA-9S2s, there is no reason for me to check back on t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A few more hybrid suggestions by Chirag on 2006-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
Hey Cat,Well..my first question would be regarding the application.  The big Melq tube is already doing the bass towers...is it not enough current?  And wouldn't a proper class A 100w amp with its low low efficiency require something like 1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report by Paul S on 2007-05-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
I think I have had enough time with this phono stage now to make a few remarks about it.  In keeping with the spirit of this website I am not recommending this component, just reporting on it. I got my unit off AudioGon after keeping my eyes pe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The Greek Hybrid amplifiers. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
I do not know this company but they might do interesting hybrids… http://www.ypsilonelectronics.com http://www.ypsilonelectronics.com/technology.htm The caT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Hybrid (Tom Evans) by RonyWeissman on 2008-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi,  yes i agree that my solid-state amplifiers were not best choice for compressio drivers, they were my second amps when electricity was bad, otherwise I use a custom made 300B from La maison de l'audiophile for my system when electricity is v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Hybrid by starboy on 2008-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
RomyBy hearing the rest of the Shelter line you will eliminate that curiousity and may find the answer also. Methinks the Shelter line will increase in time and become as confusing as the ZYX state of affairs.Mr Hanekom may also have some answers to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: The Robert Koda’s Takumi K-70 hybrid by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
Here is another interesting hybrid. The gain stage is made around 5842 tube, most likely with feedback and the current stage is SS reportedly single-ended and in class A.  They claim 150W, if it is in Class A and without PP then frankly I do not see ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
I wonder if anyone make, commercially or otherwise, any (good sounding?) a two-stages classe “A” hybrid running 100-200W into 8Ohm, with no feedback?  AcousticPlan looks like tried to do something but their amp is just 50W and it looks they have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: Vincent Hybrid? by jamesrm618 on 2006-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
The Vincent SP-T100 looks close "The SP-T100 is a hybrid mono block with tubes in the input stage where voltage is amplified. The power output Amplifier circuitry works without feedback." Nominal output power Class-A 8 Ohm: 10 Watt Nominal ou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Hybrid Amps by RonyWeissman on 2008-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi,Have peope heard any of the new generation hybrid amps out there? I have often such miserable power to my home that about half the time it was useless to listen to my SET tube system. I always had a back-up solid-state amp to use when I could...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Any recommendations?... tabletop or boombox type hybrid digital HD rad... by thezak on 2011-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any recommendations?... tabletop or boombox type hybrid digi... in Off Air Audio  0 Replies 
Have you kind folks out there any recommendations?... tabletop or boombox type hybrid digital HD radios The tabletop hybrid digital Sony HD radio was on sale for a bit at Best Buyhttp://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/538000-REG/Sony_XDRS10HDIP_HD_...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Hybrid (Tom Evans) by RonyWeissman on 2008-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi,  yes i agree that my solid-state amplifiers were not best choice for compressio drivers, they were my second amps when electricity was bad, otherwise I use a custom made 300B from La maison de l'audiophile for my system when electricity is v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: A laundromat amplifier? by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
Another interesting thing: why not a lot of people make the single ended hybrids? I understand that single ended output has very low efficiency but still: it is only about the heat dissipation. I have seen some single ended SS amp. There was a strang...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Hybrid Amps by RonyWeissman on 2008-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi,Have peope heard any of the new generation hybrid amps out there? I have often such miserable power to my home that about half the time it was useless to listen to my SET tube system. I always had a back-up solid-state amp to use when I could...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #107: Hm...the NeoHybs... by Romy the Cat on 2019-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
I do not know what sound Silbatone demonstrated at the show. If it was not “accidently spectacular” (which sometimes happened at the shows) then it is irrelevant what it was. Conceptually Silbatone did not show anything new or stimulating that move ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Must be the DSD-Layer by el`Ol on 2008-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The SACD and the Windows Media Player in Didital Things  5 Replies 
Stragely one only gets this effect for hybrid-SACDs that are recognized as that by the Mediaplayer, not all....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Any recommendations?... tabletop or boombox type hybrid digital HD rad... by thezak on 2011-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any recommendations?... tabletop or boombox type hybrid digi... in Off Air Audio  0 Replies 
Have you kind folks out there any recommendations?... tabletop or boombox type hybrid digital HD radios The tabletop hybrid digital Sony HD radio was on sale for a bit at Best Buyhttp://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/538000-REG/Sony_XDRS10HDIP_HD_...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Two-stages, hybrid, small, powerful class “A”? in Audio Discussions  23 Replies 
I wonder if anyone make, commercially or otherwise, any (good sounding?) a two-stages classe “A” hybrid running 100-200W into 8Ohm, with no feedback?  AcousticPlan looks like tried to do something but their amp is just 50W and it looks they have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: The Lamm and OPT core saturation by morricab on 2007-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
Merlin here is the Stereophile measurements on the Lamm ML2.1http://stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/1004lamm/index4.htmlAs you can see the rise in distortion vs. frequency shows only a small rise in distortion even down to 10Hz.  This is an indica...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Too many unknowns in both cases by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"] That all will give 5 stages if I'm not overlooking some posibility: 3 filtering stages, with the first one bypassable, the driver being at the same time the last filtering stage [/quote] It is 3 stages total not 5. You do not nee...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Hybird (no magical fix) by RonyWeissman on 2008-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Oh well sorry for the false lead, you are probably right that there was just something falty in my 300B but at least I found an amp that I really like.Since i have two outputs on my preamp(placette) maybe i'll look around for a cheap flea-power tube ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #191: Celebration by Paul S on 2009-07-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
I thought the B1 was Yamaha's V-FET and the B2 was a later "hybrid", but I suppose both are Vintage Sufferer's wet dreams.  I have never heard either amp, anyway.I have heard a couple of the original Sony Esprit V-FET amps, however, and they were cer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The SACD and the Windows Media Player by el`Ol on 2008-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The SACD and the Windows Media Player in Didital Things  5 Replies 
Hello!The moronic idea that bad + bad can become good just drove me to playing a hybrid-SACD with the Windows Media Player. First I thought I was right, but then the non-moronic regions of my brain told me this can´t come from the PCM layer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Can´t be the DSD Layer by el`Ol on 2008-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The SACD and the Windows Media Player in Didital Things  5 Replies 
I just installed a pure CD-drive. Same effect. I see two possible reasons:The Media Player adjust its Filter/Upsamplayer algorithm when it detects a hybrid SACD. Hard to believe. Second reason: The recognizable SACDs have a slightly different convers...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Rank by el`Ol on 2007-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
Here is the link:http://www.rank-concept.deI have no experience with the Lamm ML-series, I just listened to an M-series hybrid amp combined with the Watt/Puppy 8. This performance was a single fake (though a pleasant one). I can´t say where was the f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Sonar overrides standard sweeps by atilsley169 on 2012-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Sonar Acoustic Levelling (radical new approach for roo... in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
So, now I am overlaying the sonar map on top of the audio output sweeps, to create a hybrid audio map. This then means we create an algorithm to input to a suitable audio reader. I then place this reader between the source (eg cd, dac) and the amp. L...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #115: Samplitude by HDTT on 2009-04-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Romy have you tried Samplitude extensively, I have both Wavelab and samp prefer samp.Also with version 10 with Hybrid engine believe or not it is noticeably cleaner than older version noticed itright off the bat. Wavelab is good but find it quirky an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Fs by Paul S on 2016-12-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Infinite Baffle Implementation and "Compression Sub-bas... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
Scott, is it your specific aim to configure an enclosure to "effectively" lower driver Fs? While this, along with an exponential increase in power, is a proven strategy for generating ULF, it seems like this approach creates more of a sealed/"IB" hyb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: High Power Amplifiers by Amir on 2023-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Marantz MA-9S2 Monoblock Amplifiers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Paul Excuse me for off-topic , I also have high power solidstate amplifier and I have some experience with high power solidstate amplifiers.Actually very few high power solidstate/Hybrid amplifiers are good and most of them are not ok.The problem is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Cessaro speakers and some other tidbits by morricab on 2007-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Hi Romy, I recently heard the smallest Cessaro and while I felt that the bass was not adequate for long term satisfaction it was also not a total disaster.  From the midbass on up; however, the speaker is simply superb and one of the very best h...
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