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| Why so underwhelmed by Revel F208 audition??? Analogluvr, thanks for your comment. I too tend to generally prefer amplifiers which don't employ negative feedback, in part because it may be an indication that the intrinsic quality of the design is sufficiently good that it doesn't need to empl... | |
| Why so underwhelmed by Revel F208 audition??? The "class G" design of the Arcam A39, as explained here, is radically different than the designs of most amplifiers having high end aspirations. And despite the high efficiency provided by that kind of design (resulting in reduced size and weight... | |
| Clayton Audio Class A amps. Need amp advice All good points by those who have responded following my post above. I'll add, assuming that the amps are to be directly driven by the M1, that the M1's very low output impedance will act in the direction of reducing sensitivity to cable effects a... | |
| Aesthetix vs. Allnic vs. ARC ph7 One thing that has not yet been addressed in this thread is impedance compatibility. If the OP is using the MC601 preamp listed in his system description, and plans to connect the phono stage to any of the preamp's inputs other than the unbalanced... | |
| Clayton Audio Class A amps. Need amp advice Fsmithjack, in general adapters may or may not work ok depending on the specific designs of the components that are being connected. In this case the comments made earlier in the thread by Tim (Mitch2) indicate that they will NOT work ok. But note... | |
| Speakers or Amplifier 04-13-15: Ricred1I have confirmed that I can connect subs through my M1 DAC and will be ordering a JL Audio F112.Yes, that should work fine with your particular equipment, with respect to the signal interfaces that are involved. The M1's balanced ... | |
| Speakers or Amplifier Richard, as I recall from one of your other threads not long ago you achieved a substantial improvement in bass performance via some revisions to how your bass traps are arranged. And you apparently achieved further improvement in bass performance... | |
| Ayre phono settings question I haven't owned the P-5xe, but looking at the manual I would feel certain that:1)For a 100 ohm load you would set the "100" DIP switch down and the "1000" DIP switch up.2)For a 1000 ohm load you would set the "100" DIP switch up and the "1000" DIP... | |
| Multiple "sales" of EAR 324? 04-10-15: Bdp24The guy picks the EAR 324 Phono Amp, a pretty esoteric item, as his bait. How would a guy like this even know about an item like the EAR?!Because he copied an ad that had previously appeared elsewhere.A technique that can be useful ... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state 04-11-15: Almarg If that output impedance is negligibly small in relation to speaker impedance, corresponding to a high damping factor, there will be essentially no variation of output power as load impedance varies, within the limits of the amp's... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state Hi Unsound,Yes, it's true that some robustly designed solid state amps rated at 60 watts into 8 ohms will be able to supply 240 watts into 2 ohms, while the Wolcott's 180 watt rating into 8 ohms increases only slightly into 2 ohms, to that 240 wat... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Very glad to hear the good news, Rebbi.Speaking of Chesky, and also of classical music, I recommend that you consider purchasing a used or new copy of Chesky CD31, Dvorak's "New World Symphony," Jascha Horenstein conducting the Royal Philharmonic ... | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question So in short, there's no way to rectify my current situation with a resistor.No, we haven't said that. Despite all the potential issues we've cited, using the resistor with the paralleled speakers could conceivably still result in acceptable sonics... | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question Angelgz2, see this Wikipedia writeup on the voltage divider effect. In Figure 1 consider Vin to be the voltage the amplifier (or receiver) is "trying" to output to the speakers at any given instant. Consider Z1 to be the sum of the amplifier's out... | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question P.S. to my previous post. Another calculation method, which gives the same 37.8 watt answer but is somewhat simpler:For many solid state amps, especially those for which the 4 ohm power rating is equal to or close to twice the 8 ohm power rating, ... |