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| SubWoofer Help Down firing subs also cause more vibration to go into the floor instead of the room, which may or may not be a good thing. You can feel the vibrations from the sub in my living room (down-firing) on the other end of the house! Great for special ef... | |
| Can pro amps possibly sound good? Crown, QSC, etc I run the Gilmore Raven amp in my main rig, with Zu Druids. Since I'm using different speakers in the LR and patio, extracting what part comes from the amp and what from the speakers, cable, volume control, etc. is impossible, but I don't hear any... | |
| Can pro amps possibly sound good? Crown, QSC, etc Maybe it's the really nice front end stuff I have feeding it (Zero One Mercury CD/HD and Supratek Chenin tube preamp), but the Crown sounds fine to me for casual listening. YMMV | |
| Can pro amps possibly sound good? Crown, QSC, etc Oh, and I forgot:Crown was offering a $120.00 mail-in rebate at the time, so the actual price ended up being $479.00. Outstanding value in my mind. | |
| Can pro amps possibly sound good? Crown, QSC, etc I use a Crown XLS-802D ($599.00 retail) to drive my living room and patio systems at home, and it sounds excellent, even though this series is often derided since it is made in China. It pumps out 800 wpc into 4 ohms, 500 wpc into 8 ohms. I run it... | |
| digital Amp. Going green Check out Gilmore Audio. I have the stereo Raven amp (250 wpc into 4 ohms), which is overkill power-wise for my Druids, and costs $3500. If you need more power, the Raptor monos produce 500wpc for $5000. They are built like tanks, sound great (bea... | |
| Why Palladium in cables, wiring, etc. . .? I'm surprised no one makes superconducting cables yet. All you need is some liquid nitrogen and some of the copper oxide based high-temp superconductors would pass electricity with no resistance at all! True it's a bit of an inconvenience to have ... | |
| How to evaluate amps that are not broken in? I bought the Maggies for my 2nd system from him - he was most accomodating, I agree! | |
| Balanaced Power Tech v. PS Audio ET,You mean 60 Hz sinewave? 120 volts? | |
| Best Conductor Materials by Frequency "Copper is best from 1 to 1,000 HzGold is best from 700 to 1,800 HzSilver is best from 1,500 to 14,000 HzRubidium 4 Micron on silver best from 10,000 to 100,000 Hz"Seems like you have two different "bests" from 700-1000, from 1500 to 1800, and fro... | |
| Amp Shootout: S-30, Ref 9 V2 SE, Raven, DAD-M100 From what I understand, Gilmore uses a highly modified, very high sampling rate version of the ICE engine - not the standard off the shelf version, at least according to the linked review of the Raptor, the monoblock version of the stereo Raven. T... | |
| Amp Shootout: S-30, Ref 9 V2 SE, Raven, DAD-M100 Kenk168,The NuForce is not the opposite of what I described in my system - it is EXACTLY what I described. It was literally like fingernails on a blackboard, and it pumped out so much RF that I could hear it feeding back through my tube preamp. I ... | |
| speaker cable for Zu Druid/RWA/Modwright combo What about Zu Ibis? I run them on my Druids and they are incredibly detailed. They seem a little bright at first, but break-in and become more balanced after 200 hours or so. | |
| what power amplifier are really punchy Try the Gilmore amps - Raven stereo or Raptor monoblocks. I have a Raven powering my Zu Druids and it is unbelievably punchy. Kick drums might collapse your chest, though, so be careful! | |
| Speaker A/B Option With Separates? You can also run a second set of wires from the same amp binding posts and hook up a separate volume control (Niles Audio has a nice impedance-matching model) either in the wall or on a table. I have this set-up for my patio and living room fed fr... |