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Mark Levinson ML7 auction Consider yourself lucky that you didn’t get it. You can get a much better preamp than an over 35 year old one ! For $1795? That being the current high bid on the aforesaid reviewer/seller's second iteration of the auction. Well, perhaps you ca... | |
I'm selling speakers for the first time and concerned about fraud In addition to Newbee's excellent advice:First, Google the person’s screen name, and see what turns up. Second, ascertain the person’s real name and location, and check it out on Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Intelius, etc. You may be surprised at h... | |
Vac 200 IQ vs Ayon orthosII Orthomead, if I'm not mistaken a relevant point which has not yet been stated is what speakers are **you** using, that would be paired with the amp you eventually decide to purchase.Regards,-- Al | |
Speaker phase observation and question? Likewise, Erik. Putting it another way, I prefer the dollars I choose to invest in an amplifier to go as much as possible toward sound quality and build quality, rather than a lot of that investment simply going toward watts and amperes.Best reg... | |
Speaker phase observation and question? Tim & Erik, thanks for the excellent info and the informative link, which I’m still going through.Kalali, first, although the term "impedance" is commonly used to simply refer to a number of ohms, to be precise a speaker’s impedance is a vecto... | |
Speaker phase observation and question? Tim, thanks for another of your always valuable inputs about speaker design. Regarding: In theory when designing a crossover, 6db per octave gives you 90 degrees out of phase, 12db produces 180 degrees out of phase, 18db per octave produ... | |
Class D is just Dandy! Atmasphere 5-11-2017 ... you might be interested in a book called ’Born To Run’ by Christopher McDougall. In it, we find out that we are the dominant species not just because of our brains but also because of our ability to run further than any ot... | |
Class D is just Dandy! For that matter, Bolt can also "compete" against a cheetah.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuRTNidtCM:-)But I think we all know what the others mean by "compete," whether we agree with them or not.Best regards,-- Al | |
Richard Clark $10,000 Amplifier Challenge - Why Couldn't Anyone Pass this Test?? And as I mentioned, some speakers are deliberately hard to drive in the bass, or use smaller-dual woofers which put a strain on amplifiers. When I look at the impedance curves and read about reviewers talking about how "discerning" this speaker is... | |
Richard Clark $10,000 Amplifier Challenge - Why Couldn't Anyone Pass this Test?? IMO it is a somewhat misleading oversimplification to categorize the ESL57 as being either an easy load or a difficult load.It is a difficult load in the sense that its impedance descends to low values in the upper treble region, due to the capac... | |
Synergistic Red Fuse ... First, kudos to Aeoluskratos for a sincere and nicely done first post.Second, I don’t wish to rehash the subject of fuse directionality, which has been debated ad nauseam in this thread. But I want to correct a misstatement of fact:Geoffkait 5-10-... | |
Tekton Double Impacts Another method of sending a PM is to click on the member's screen name in one of his or her posts, then click "Details," then "Marketplace Feedback," then "Send Message."BTW, the "Explore" tab David referred to appears on the main Audiogon home p... | |
Synergistic Red Fuse ... All best wishes, Frank, for a problem-free surgery and a speedy recovery. My impression is that heart surgery these days is a much more exact science and much more predictable than many other kinds of surgery.Looking forward to your return to the... | |
Subwoofer hummmmmm Bob (Gdnrbob), thank you kindly.What the OP has described isn’t surprising. The 2Wq has a very high input impedance, described as being more than 100K. When the amp that is driving it is turned off the high impedance input is left in an essentiall... | |
Class D is just Dandy! Given that this is Erik’s thread, I presume Guido and the others posting above won’t deem it inappropriate if I comment on the disagreement between Erik and Ralph. Apologies if that is an incorrect presumption.Ralph, it appears to me that what und... |