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| Any Subs Linn Sondek Oil 1,000,000.00 a gallon Weiserb,With regard to oil, please bear in mind that there are many grades of oil which perform differently over time. Some oils have a high paraffin content and will solidify over time with exposure to air. Other oils change their viscosity, and ... | |
| Tube amps driving low sensitivity speakers Ral,with transformer coupled amplifiers, the transformer is what the speaker 'sees', and the tubes 'see' the transformer also; thus the different circuit topology may affect the "sound" the power transfer should not be effected. Given your illustr... | |
| Define high current amp? In 'Theory' a High current amp is an amp that is capable of delivering significantly "higher" current than standard design practices would dictate. For example a 'typical 100 watt amp would produce 28.5 volts at ~9 amp into a fixed 8 ohm load, and... | |
| Is Threshold alive at all ????? Check out Nelson Pass's web site, Pass Labs | |
| And the winner is... (tube rolling) South43,Start to learn to recognize the construction of the tubes, esp the NOS fo the ones that you like, National has not made any small-9-pin- tubes in about ~25+ years; you may find other lables that are not original, but by learning the constr... | |
| Beveridge System 3's, worth repairing? The crossover is avaliable through Roger Modjeski, and Music Reference, it is the RM-3. | |
| what speakers do the best "disappearing act"?? ProAc response 3 signatures; yes I know these are old, but they are great!, otherwise JM labs Utopia. | |
| Beveridge System 3's, worth repairing? Beveridge speakers are worth repairing them if you intend to keep them and listen to them. They are wonderful speakers and when propperly set up are unparalleled. The system 3s are more user freindly than the 2s or 2SWs. I don't remeber how many w... | |
| Audio Museum...what would you want? I guess that I am older than I thought, a pair of original quad 57s, REL tunner ca1950, a Marantz model 2, and for a small system a pair of orriginal LS3/5a BBC monitors. I have a pair of Mac30s, and C-8s.Happy listening | |
| Take an audio challenge Connect the A/V Preamp via the tape loop on the tubed pre-amp, This way the 2 channel source will be sent to the a/v pre and when you want a/v signal through your tubed pre, switch to the tape loop instead of av input.Good luck | |
| Life span of tubes? Life span depends upon amp design/application. Originally tubes were designed with a 10000 hour life span. if the tubes are used 'nicely' then they should last. I know that the old quicksilver 8417 monoblocks would eat tubes ~ a set every 10~18 mo... | |
| Market Research in High End Market As I thought, you are looking for what most of the mfgs will not disclose. Having worked in the industry for ~10 yrs( late 80s~90s) I can tell you qualitativly the following information: The market has gone through a lot of consolidation, especial... | |
| Market Research in High End Market What information are you looking for? The magazines have done a lot of reader polls, but if you are looking for "industrial numbers" like total purchases, inventory levels and turns, good luck- I doubt that you will get any meaningfull numbers. | |
| Amp protection circuitry? all that its cracked up to be? Protection from what?It used to be that the 'amp protection circuit' was to protect the speakers, That went out of vogue in the High-end, mid 80's time frame. Protection from Lightning: forget about it. there is not enough known about lighning to ... | |
| Tuner question Most old tunners -that people rave about- and the MD and Fanfare units are Analogue, a lot of the new units, McIntosh included use synthesized or digital tunning. I have had a number of both, and prefer the analogue 1000:1!.This may be the issue, ... |