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| Speaker Longevity Elizabeth & Jim -- great posts!I'll just add that some of the most expensive and sought after speaker drivers in existence today are the field coil drivers from 1930's Western Electric theater speakers, which go for stratospheric prices on the... | |
| How is online radio so transparent? Probably the most major factor is that the computer speakers and associated amplification are being asked to produce far less volume than the speakers in your main system. If you were to put the computer system in your main listening space, set up... | |
| How high end must your system be... A fourth factor that I should have included in my previous post:4)Speaker impedance characteristics and sensitivity -- everything else being equal, speaker cable differences will be increased if the speaker impedance and/or the speaker sensitivity... | |
| How high end must your system be... Three variables that haven't been mentioned but I think are significant:1)Recording quality -- the greater the realism of the recording, the easier it will be to perceive differences in cables, as well as differences between other components in th... | |
| Mismatched Preamp/Amp Impedance--What Will I Hear? I feel pretty certain that the specs you are looking at are wrong. 100K output impedance is a ridiculous number that makes no sense.That said, if you connect a 100K output impedance into a 25K input impedance you would get approximately a 14db red... | |
| B&W CM1 bi-amp impedance See Chart 5 at this link:http://www.soundstagenetwork.com/measurements/speakers/bw_cm1/As you can see the impedance varies all over the place, but 8 ohms certainly looks best for the tweeter. A lot of the woofer range looks like it's about 5 or 6 ... | |
| Amp/ preamp for electostatics and why I have always been curious about who designed the Beveridge amps. I thought it was Modjeski, but he said he didn't. Do you know who it was? Rrog -- This article, written by Harold Beveridge's son, doesn't answer the question, but you might find it... | |
| When is used used up? Hi Kijanki,Thanks for mentioning those things, but yes in my case I have absolutely always done that. During the 1990's I invested in an earlier version of this variable ac power supply.It provides a variac-type function that allows me to bring up... | |
| Another Bi-Amp Question The speakers are rated as "Recommended amplifier power 50W - 120W into 8Ω on unclipped programme." That means 120W on typical musical material. Typical musical material has much lower energy levels at treble frequencies than at lower frequencies. ... | |
| When is used used up? Concerning purely electronic components (as opposed to electromechanical ones), my experience has been that, as Elizabeth said, it's a tough call. And it is very unpredictable, even when environment and usage history are taken into account.During ... | |
| Newbie question - equipment with good resale value Hi Katie,If you buy used from a private party (such as here on Audiogon), and the item does not have any cosmetic or functional problems, and you buy at a fair price, you should be able to re-sell without significant (or any) loss.Tube amp selecti... | |
| Transistor If you are referring to a cylindrical part with several colored bands encircling it, that would be a resistor, not a transistor. Some other failure in the unit, possibly the rectifier tube itself, caused excessive current to flow through it. I dou... | |
| Clint Eastwood's HiFi Those are close, Shadorne, but no cigar (I believe). They both have the wood surfaces meeting without the 45 degree bevel that CE's speaker had. Also the wood of his speaker appears to be thicker than on the Tannoy's. The Lancaster has the driver ... | |
| Static Use a dryer sheet. See this thread:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1263755975Regards,-- Al | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Hi Emerson (Foster_9),Glad to hear that you've turned the corner, obviously after a great deal of effort (and expense). How is the bass now, which iirc was the most significant issue earlier on? Assuming it is now reasonably good, which component ... |