almarg
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| Speaker wire Assuming that you want the cable to behave in a neutral manner, the main criterion is that you want the resistance of the cable to be a very small fraction of the speaker's minimum impedance at any frequency.The post in this thread dated 7-6-07, 1... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Bryon, judging by the photos you linked to in your first post dated 2-12-11, it appears that the circuit connections are on a layer or layers internal to the board. Unless you can see exactly where they are by shining a light through the board, dr... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? RE: Time domain behavior. Earlier on the thread, Newbee said something similar - that warmth is partly a matter of a system's ability to portray the decay of notes. I suspect you mean something similar. Do you think that tubes are inherently bette... | |
| Pictures At An Exhibition CD Hi Lynne,Although opinions about both the performance and the sonics are of course not unanimous, when the Telarc Maazel/Cleveland Orchestra recording was released in 1979 it was considered by more than a few people to have been the greatest orche... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Do I simply place the leads from the two new caps into the same holes, so that each hole has two leads?I would guess, especially after looking at the pictures you provided, that two leads won't fit into one hole. But if you end up having to use tw... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Hi Bryon,Yes, those are undoubtedly 3.6uF and 6.8uF. FWIW, though, I would not feel comfortable introducing an 8.3% error into the nominal value of the 3.6uF cap, especially in a crossover network that is designed, as this one appears to be, to ha... | |
| Relate sensitivity/impedance to speaker efficiency Thanks, Ralph. Yes I recall discussing those experiments with you and others in a thread here about a year or so ago. And it certainly does seem conceivable that characteristic impedance could affect the sonic performance of a speaker cable in som... | |
| Tin Can Sound? Excellent suggestions by Larry. Also, are any connections present that could cause you to be listening to the same music via two different signal paths at once? For instance, are line-out and line-in both connected to some external device, such as... | |
| Relate sensitivity/impedance to speaker efficiency 02-11-11: BifwynneMy question is whether I should think about raising the impedance load in my speaker circuit, perhaps by trying "high(er) impedance" speaker cables (if such things exist). No, there are many reasons why that is not done and shoul... | |
| Relate sensitivity/impedance to speaker efficiency Nnck, IMO everything in your two posts immediately above is correct, with the very minor exception (which is also irrelevant, based on the response from Acoustic Zen) that in the statement "If that is a measurement at 2.83 volts / 1m, that would m... | |
| Amp advice sought for Coincident Total Victory Greg, Mike, Montejay, thanks very much! Excellent info, particularly that a Dragon Mark II is in the works, as I wasn't intending to purchase immediately. Hopefully the price won't increase commensurately with the weight :-)Best regards,-- Al | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? A slight clarification to my previous post:In referring to ambience, my intent was to refer to the totality of hall effects, rather than to the sense of "air" with which that term is commonly associated, "air" primarily involving high frequency ef... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? This thread has certainly evolved, as might be expected considering the parties who are participating, into a really excellent dialog. FWIW I must very respectfully say that at this point I agree with Hifibri and I disagree with Learsfool. I see i... | |
| Amp advice sought for Coincident Total Victory 02-13-11: Dbrewer12345After the above post, it dawned on me that I should be taking the electrical data while playing a 60 Hz test tone. The results with MAX GAIN FROM THE PREAMP (emphasis added):Voltage across the amp inputs- 3.7 V AC.Voltage acr... | |
| Transparent Bi-Cable 02-12-11: AntonkkMy main problem right now is the lack of power in the bass region with weak and muddy bass.Which output tap are you using (2, 4, or 8 ohms), and have you tried the other ones? If you haven't tried it, I suspect that going to the 2... |