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| Best sub for music, I’ll probably get promptly booted out of here and banned for life for suggesting 18" JBL drivers on an audiophile forumNah. 18s are cool. The bigger cone needs less excursion. Very nice for extension in the bass. The only real issue is the size of... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 @dsper I think you are doing well. You might try dialing in even less capacitance, since the tonearm cable is part of the overall capacitance that is a load on the cartridge. If its an actual tonearm cable and not a generic audio cable then it mig... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 Better bass/foundation, better drive, and the treble is much better. It is a little bit shrill on a couple of albums but I suspect that it needs more time to break in or it could just be the albums.@dsper Good- glad to hear it!Since this is a h... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 tube rolling ralph, any theories or thoughts as to why this is the case?We suspect that the environmental control is poor- tubes are made by hand and we've heard that they don't use Latex gloves in their assembly. That comes from Eric Barbour back when he was ... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING atmosphere, I had an Electron Kinetics Eagle 2 on the bottom of the 4a's. Your amps while sonic champions in the midrange, suck in the bass department. I've had the Eagle in my own system at home. I can see why people liked it at the time- as so... | |
| Buying used: how old is too old? Breakups and suspension are the two major issues with older speakers. Suspensions, especially foam surrounds, perish. So the drivers (in particular the woofers) might need at the very least a new surround installed.Breakups are inherent in the dri... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” i have had good well respected horn speakers, and also heard some very very tip top horn systemsApparently not the tippy top yet, or something to that effect :)Many systems can be shouty; this is caused by distortion. You don't need horns for that... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them?I regard this is the wrong question - better to ask what is special about high sensitivity speakers. I don't find anything special about low sensitivity as thermal compression is a common proble... | |
| Best sub for music, when I went to buy my first sub, the rule of thumb was, “you only need one, bass isn’t directional”. That didn’t feel right to me. At 80Hz the waveform is about 14 feet long. This means that in most rooms within a couple of iterations of the cycle... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 tube rolling Have your customers mentioned to you what changing out the stock 6AS7G tubes for either the Russian 6H13C or the Chinese (I assume ShuGuang) tubes do differently, for better or worse? Actually the stock tubes **are** either the Russian or Chines... | |
| Topping A90 failure issues. Should I try a 3rd A90? The Topping DACs are excellent bargains in high end audio and good examples of how high end audio is not about price but intention. | |
| Beginner looking for guidance into tube sound. AtmasphereI have recordings with bass drums that don’t just shake walls, but knock things off the bookshelves. This sadly is not one of them. I don't thing any recording of Canto would. The score does not have any section where the bass drum is a ... | |
| What is the most important component to consider while building a new system? The room is the most important.After that its making sure you have a good source. Seriously- if your source(s) aren't doing the job right it won't matter how good your amps and speakers are- they can't make up for lost or distorted signal downstream! | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Tubes cannot have frequency extension like a transistor. ROTFLMAO... this statement is laughably false. Had a pair of your OTL's running the top of my Vandersteen 4a's. Nice amps, but they were NOT a neutral sounding amp and DID NOT HAVE the air... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 tube rolling @drbondMy advice is to stay away from the 6080s on these amps! They are not built to the same spec as 6AS7Gs. The 6080 typically has a smaller grid heatsink and since the amp is biased in class A2, the grid can warp at higher power levels, causing... |