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| Would you change your amp selection knowing...? I’d like to see how Goertz calculates a Z of 4 or 8Ω at audio frequencies from their geometry. Hi Ian,The table near the bottom of the following page of their website indicates R, L, C, and Z for their various speaker cables:http://www.bridgeportm... | |
| 2 Channel audio room chair ideas While I have an Eames chair in my listening room/living room, my preference has been to listen from Wassily Chairs my wife and I purchased back in the 1970s. In addition to being a beautiful and classic design (see this Wikipedia writeup), they r... | |
| What does moving from a 150 watt amp to a 400 watt amp get you? Robertjason75, to add to Willemj’s questions and comments, as I alluded to in the last paragraph of my lengthy post yesterday I don’t think that for most listeners the capability of cleanly producing 105 db peaks at the listening position is neces... | |
| Would you change your amp selection knowing...? Kalali, that’s an excellent question, and I’ve wondered the same thing myself. While I’ve seen a number of reports over the years of solid state amplifiers self-destructing as a result of having to drive cables having ultra-high capacitance, I don... | |
| What does moving from a 150 watt amp to a 400 watt amp get you? A correction to a miswording in item 2 of my previous post. When I said ... ...for a 4 ohm impedance the SPL produced in response to an input of 2.83 volts will be 3 db less than if the spec had been based on 1 watt, since 2.83 volts into 4 oh... | |
| What does moving from a 150 watt amp to a 400 watt amp get you? Bruce, thanks for providing the Musical Fidelity writeup, which is excellent IMO, and is similar to some analyses I have provided here in the past. A couple of minor nits:1)The reference to SPL (sound pressure level) falling off at 6 db per doubli... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable Dynaquest, let me re-phrase Elizabeth's statement that I referred to and perhaps that will clarify the interpretation I was attempting to provide in my previous post. Elizabeth said: So far ZERO people have ’changed sides’, or been convince about ... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable To the two gentlemen who posted just above: I believe that you may have misinterpreted Elizabeth’s post. The way I read it she was simply saying that the only thing any of the thread’s participants have become convinced of during the course of the... | |
| Would you change your amp selection knowing...? Hi Steve (Williewonka),I suspect that **many** high end solid state amplifiers are prone to adverse effects from speaker cables having ultra-high capacitance, at least if a Zobel network is not used with the cable. (My understanding, btw, is that ... | |
| It's Simple Ian (ieales), thanks for providing the outstanding paper referenced in your post just above. It does indeed reinforce the notion that a given cable will tend to sound different depending on what it is connecting and the system it is being used in,... | |
| What does moving from a 150 watt amp to a 400 watt amp get you? Correction to my previous post: In the first paragraph "music music" should have been "most music," of course.Regards,-- Al | |
| What does moving from a 150 watt amp to a 400 watt amp get you? I would make several points:1)As a practical matter what you are using with this particular speaker is a 240 watt amp, not a 150 watt amp. The amp is rated at 150 watts into 8 ohms and 300 watts into 4 ohms. The impedance curve of the speaker, as ... | |
| Why was the Naim/ELAC thread deleted? First Amendment does not apply to Audiogon. To be sure it's clear, it does not apply to any other non-governmental organization or institution in the USA either.Regards,-- Al | |
| We Need A Separate Forum for Fuses Hi Elizabeth,While others here disagree, IMO the most plausible explanation that has been offered regarding fuse directionality was provided in this thread by Atmasphere (Ralph). As you’ll see it recognizes the legitimacy of the many observations ... | |
| Question for tube aficionados Actually on all 3 of these models we do employ grid resistors on all gain stages , typically a 47R5 resistor. All CJ preamps use grid resistors either 47R5 , 100R or 332R. Thanks, Coppy. Good to know.That information doesn’t appear to be consiste... |