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| Speaker cabinet made of real wood Good luck, John! You may want to give Lou a call -- I'm sure he'll be extremely helpful.My own instinct, fwiw, would be that the DA-RMa probably would be a much better fit. If you were to provide a reasonable distance between the speakers and the ... | |
| Why not horns? Hi Herman,I, of course, agree with your technical statements about amplifier power, etc., as far as they go. And they are not inconsistent with my previous post. However, keep in mind that the amps we were discussing as examples are solid state am... | |
| Why not horns? Prdprez & Herman,I'm not particularly familiar with the BAT solid state amplifiers, but if indeed the only relevant difference between configurations that offer, for example, 300W into 8 ohms and 150W into 8 ohms is that output circuits are pa... | |
| Speaker cabinet made of real wood Congrats on the new speakers, Al! Mind giving us a rough idea on room dimensions, placement, and associated gear?Thanks, John! I anticipate putting up a thorough system description in the next few weeks, w/pics, and I don't want to divert the thre... | |
| Speaker cabinet made of real wood As the owner of a brand new pair of Daedalus Ulysses, just received two days ago, I second the comments offered above by Fig and Dodgealum.Although the break-in process has barely begun, I feel that I can already say that imho their overall combin... | |
| Amp not enough power Does electronics degrade and changes the quality/sound of the amp? Yes. Capacitors tend to be the most common culprits, aside from tubes in tubed equipment. Electrolytic capacitors in the power supply circuits could affect power capability, as wel... | |
| Pass XA30.5 enough power for Wilson Sophia 2? Tvad is correct. The point to using a ratio that approaches 100:1, or that is much larger than 10:1, would apply to the situation where the only output impedance specification that is available is a nominal rating, that presumably applies to mid-f... | |
| Amp not enough power As you probably realize, the 4004MkII is rated at 200W and 400W into 8 and 4 ohms respectively. At the time it was introduced, FTC requirements for amplifier power ratings specified a "pre-conditioning" prior to the measurements, comprised of 1 ho... | |
| Do all good interconnects sound the same? For several easily explainable technical reasons, in many systems interconnect cables certainly can and do sound different, at least to a minor degree. That does not necessarily mean that the systems in which those differences appear are "more rev... | |
| Pass XA30.5 enough power for Wilson Sophia 2? Pubul57 raises a good question. The XA30.5 is specified to "leave Class A at 60 peak watts." I'm not sure how that should be interpreted, as to whether the 60W is peak, rather than the usual rms definition, and as to whether or not that number app... | |
| Pass XA30.5 enough power for Wilson Sophia 2? Expanding a bit on a point I mentioned earlier, the most important factor that determines how much power is required is the dynamic range of the music being listened to. Meaning the difference in volume between the loudest notes and the softest no... | |
| Pass XA30.5 enough power for Wilson Sophia 2? Addendum to my previous post:The Stereophile site is up again, and it looks like I was correct that JA's measurements were for the Sophia, and not the Sophia 2. Also, his 88.3db measurement was not based on 1 watt and 1 meter, it was based on 2.83... | |
| Pass XA30.5 enough power for Wilson Sophia 2? CMalak -- Thanks. The Stereophile site appears to be down right now. Are you sure, though, that those measurements are for the Sophia 2 and not for the Sophia? I had looked for JA measurements of the Sophia 2 before I posted, but I was only able t... | |
| Pass XA30.5 enough power for Wilson Sophia 2? According to this list of specifications at the Wilson site the Sophia 2 has a sensitivity of 86db/W/m, rather than the 88 mentioned above. Based on the assumptions of 195W max amp power into its 4 ohm nominal impedance, a 4-meter (13 foot) listen... | |
| Anyone successful in dealing with Tinnitus? Drinking too much water might have create some chemical unbalance but stress is more likelyMight have been a mild case of Hyponatremia.-- Al |