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| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D MichaelkingdomIn my experience, SS always seems to image more sharply and offer the deepest, clearest field.... I am using an Octave V40se with Svetlana Winged C EL34s. The Gold Lions were reissues in a Cary SLI-80 signature. To the extent that it... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Well said, Bruce. And it seems to me to be safe to assume that the reason a lot of audiophiles find themselves on an amplifier merry-go-round at times is not that there is anything inferior about the amplifiers they've tried, it's just that the im... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance I couldn't send along ARC's drawing, but it illustrates hooking the speaker's low end terminal up to the 0 (-) and 4 (+) ohm taps; and the high end terminal to the 4 (-) and 16 (+) Ohm taps.Hi Bruce,That suggestion is actually the same as in the f... | |
| Preamp bleeding John Atkinson's measurements indicate relatively poor channel separation for the 912, which is suggestive of the possibility that isolation between different inputs may also not be very good.Yogiboy's suggestion of shorting plugs on unused inputs ... | |
| Headphone amp connection Does the opinion change knowing that i have a RTR in place as well?Depends on the output impedance of the tape outs of the 912, which doesn't appear to be specified, and the input impedance of the particular RTR, and the input impedance of the Xci... | |
| DSPeaker Anti Mode 2.0 evaluation Ozzy, right-click on the Norton icon in the lower right corner of the screen and see if the menu that comes up offers a "disable protection" choice. If so, disable protection while you do the download and update. When you are finished, again right... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Bruce, I'd imagine there would be some situations in which doing that would provide results that are subjectively preferable. But keep in mind that as indicated in the article the output voltage of the 8 ohm tap is higher than the output voltage o... | |
| Two Subs? 10-15-13: RockyboyGot it! Thanks for the explanation. Hookup of current REL is via the speaker terminals. Dealer did the hookup upon delivery of my monoblocks. He says I'm precluded from wiring to my amps because they have a floating ground. So, a... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? I haven't taken the time to read most of the posts in this thread, but fwiw here's my take on the two questions that seem to be under discussion:1)Re the original question, I'm not sure if it has been mentioned yet that some speaker manufacturers ... | |
| DSPeaker Anti Mode 2.0 evaluation Now, there is an update for the DSPeaker in June 2013 but my Norton Virus control will not allow the download. Perhaps, if I was able to download that update it would be better, but I doubt it.Ozzy, my anti-virus program (NOD32) gives both the upd... | |
| Calling all Horn lovers I would just add to the characteristically excellent posts by Larry and Salectric that desirable 1930s Western Electric drivers go for EXTREMELY high prices on the rare occasions when they appear for sale. And with good reason, I would expect, alt... | |
| Calling all Horn lovers A couple of things to be careful about, though, before introducing horn speakers into your system:1)Hiss, hum, or other noise that may be generated or picked up at points in the system that are downstream of the volume control will be reproduced a... | |
| 32" television Any CRT has at max 410 lines of resolution.Elizabeth, that's for standard definition CRTs. My Sony KD-30XS955 CRT-based high definition TV falls into the category that is referred to in this Wikipedia writeup as "Super Fine Pitch," which has a the... | |
| 32" television I believe that Sony discontinued production of CRT-based TV sets in 2006, in part because in that year the European RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) directive went into effect, which made the use of leaded glass in CRTs a no no. I believ... | |
| Linda Ronstadt can't sing anymore. Very well said, Tubegroover. Thanks!Best regards,-- Al |