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by Chowder_head
Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:28 pm
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: Adjustable tube hybrids -- what are your experiences?
Replies: 13
Views: 20021

Re: Adjustable tube hybrids -- what are your experiences?

Look at this from a distortion standpoint, part of "musicality" is "warmth" = distortion. Correct me if I am wrong, but some of the bad aspects of distortion can be moderated by a little feedback...in a good way. I have no idea if Gilbert does this. He probably has some other approach.
by Chowder_head
Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:23 pm
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: NSI - the first impressions
Replies: 35
Views: 54416

Re: NSI - the first impressions

Thanks for the straight shooting in your discussion of the NSI.
by Chowder_head
Sun Jul 31, 2016 6:17 am
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: BC907 Balanced Headphone Amplifier
Replies: 10
Views: 19782

Hi, Mac.....a GBC100 is one of six different models of outboard power supplies in a piple that Blue Circle makes. These are designed to be used with this new headphone amp and several other models like the li'l 703 and all the FLT phono stages. They can also be used as outboard power supplies (with...
by Chowder_head
Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:23 pm
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: BC907 Balanced Headphone Amplifier
Replies: 10
Views: 19782

Walt, What on earth is a GPC100?
by Chowder_head
Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:23 pm
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: BC907 Balanced Headphone Amplifier
Replies: 10
Views: 19782

Not so clever, am I. See next post.
by Chowder_head
Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:36 am
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: Axpona Chicago 2016
Replies: 9
Views: 15010

Walt, any feedback from the audience on the Class D amplifiers?
by Chowder_head
Sat Jan 23, 2016 4:08 am
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: NSL Headphone amp?
Replies: 8
Views: 14723

We have already been making custom headphone amp for HE6 based on the NSL. Since it demands 5watt into 50 ohms, it require a slight higher rail voltage than the NSL can put out. The NSL itself can drive be used as a 28 watt into 8 ohms amplifier to drive any headphone without adapter. But that shou...
by Chowder_head
Fri Jan 22, 2016 5:12 pm
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: NSL Headphone amp?
Replies: 8
Views: 14723

We have already been making custom headphone amp for HE6 based on the NSL. Since it demands 5watt into 50 ohms, it require a slight higher rail voltage than the NSL can put out. The NSL itself can drive be used as a 28 watt into 8 ohms amplifier to drive any headphone without adapter. But that shou...
by Chowder_head
Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:33 pm
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: NSL Headphone amp?
Replies: 8
Views: 14723

NSL Headphone amp?

Have you given any thought to this, Gilbert? Could it be designed to meet the current needs of many of the flagship cans and wide variations in impedances for ore traditional cans, such as K7xx series and HD650?[/u]
by Chowder_head
Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:07 am
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: Me on vacation
Replies: 5
Views: 12085

Welcome home..."Oh Canada..., we stand on guard for theeeeeee."

I have always thought that Southern Ontario is one of the most civilized places in the world.
by Chowder_head
Fri May 29, 2015 3:45 am
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: BC107PH
Replies: 4
Views: 9871

Why not the BC 109? I'm sure Gilbert had a good reason.
by Chowder_head
Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:29 am
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: What can tubes do for you?
Replies: 10
Views: 16415

We don't hear live music, or even the live studio version of live music. We hear recorded music: what's on the record, tape or disc, not the actual presentation. The mind has to do the transfer from the medium back to the stage. That's why we don't all agree, except when we hear crap recordings! I m...
by Chowder_head
Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:09 pm
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: BC1002
Replies: 2
Views: 6684

Well, Gilbert...can you answer my question(s)? And can you tell me, if it will work OK with the SBH preamp you recently built for me that I added to the PS and cap pack? This preamp works very well with my 45 (tube) monos. It's pretty neutral and the bandwidth of the whole system is pretty wide, goo...
by Chowder_head
Sun Apr 06, 2014 2:31 pm
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: BC1002
Replies: 2
Views: 6684

BC1002

Has anyone heard the BC1002. How would you compare the sound to the FtTH2, which I have heard? Please cover all the "bands" - bass, mids, treble, balance and degree of color and sound stage. If you can, can you compare it to any transistor output stage amp (bi-polar, Jfet, Mosfet). Bob Neill, the Cr...
by Chowder_head
Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:03 am
Forum: Blue Circle & Audio related Stuff
Topic: HX series of power amp
Replies: 39
Views: 51899

Re: HX

I wonder how long it will be before we're all converted back to solid state. We've become so used to the enriched sound of tubes, even just as inputs, that solid state, even extremely good solid state, initially sounds too cool and lean to us. But if the solid state really is good enough, we can ad...