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In Reply to: My Question Would Be........... posted by Todd Krieger on July 24, 2014 at 22:23:57:
Atma-Sphere amps don't blink an eye when an output tube goes. They just put out slightly less power. You turn off the amplifier, replace the bad tube, check DC offset once the tube is conditioned, and go back to listening.
A couple of things you can do with the amps:
- Pull out an output tube while music is playing. Nothing happens, you just get a slight reduction in volume.
- Short out the speaker binding posts by putting a quarter across them. This is equivalent to when the speaker cable spades inadvertently touch each other either at the amp or at the speaker. Most amplifiers will fail in one way or another, some blowing a resistor or something, others in a catastrophic way. This stresses the amplifier, but in the case of the Atma-Sphere you just don't hear any music out of the speaker. Remove the quarter and the music resumes immediately as if nothing happened.
I wish all amplifiers were as fault tolerant.
Brian Walsh
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- Almost nothing - Brian Walsh 04:52:32 07/25/14 (2)
- This Leads to More Questions......... - Todd Krieger 18:43:10 07/25/14 (1)
- RE: This Leads to More Questions......... - Brian Walsh 19:28:44 07/25/14 (0)
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