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| Tone Arm board material The plinth of the turntable should be as dead and rigid as possible.The thing that most people don't think about is that the arm board is part of the plinth. The base of the arm should couple as rigidly to the bearing mount of the platter as it ca... | |
| Best speakers for classic rock Peaks in classical music can be as loud as a rock concert. Whether you can hear that in a recording or not is a different matter- that depends on if any compression is done in the recording. You need good bass response to do classical right- there... | |
| Wanted Any Symdex Speakers I showed with Symdex at CES many years ago. Nice speaker. But I've not heard of them in years so its a good bet the surrounds on the woofers may need attention. There is a shop in Rosedale Minnesota that does that sort of work if you are successfu... | |
| Best Tube Amp for B&W Bookshelf Sometimes you can find an older set of Atma-Sphere M-60s in that price range. They work quite well with that speaker. Likely the most transparent amps mentioned so far but you will need a preamp. | |
| Best speakers for classic rock The idea that a speaker is the best for a certain genre of music is one of the biggest myths in audio. Is classic rock from the 50s, 60s, or 70s? Or, if one is a bit younger, does that mean 80s and some 90s?I actually had someone ask me what the b... | |
| Looking for a pre-amp (Pass, ARC, BAT, Sim, PS Audio) @jmarshak Internally balanced has nothing to do with it. You can have the circuit be internally single-ended and still support the balanced standard. In such cases transformers are used. An example of what I'm talking about- if the source puts any... | |
| Easy to drive, outstandingly natural sound from 40-50 Hz up.....AN-E, O/96, others? I can vouch for Duke's speakers- I've heard them many times and his sound is always excellent. | |
| Looking for a pre-amp (Pass, ARC, BAT, Sim, PS Audio) @jmarshak If you are looking for balanced line you might inquire with the manufacturers of the preamps on your list if the product supports the balanced line standard, otherwise known as AES48 (Audio Engineering Society file 48).If the preamp does... | |
| Amp "timing" ? ^^ +1 | |
| Amp "timing" ? There are things that might be considered timing issues in amps, but when used in the context of a review is probably referring to detail and has nothing to do with timing at all. There is this term- PRAT which is thought to be a British thing, wh... | |
| Easy to drive, outstandingly natural sound from 40-50 Hz up.....AN-E, O/96, others? Contrast Audio Model One; 16 ohms, 93 dB.Audiokinesis- Duke has always made great speakers that are easy to drive.Many 'full range' speakers like Lowther and Voxitiv can make 50Hz. Voxitive had a very nice sounding room at RMAF; their drivers are ... | |
| Amplifier design parameters required for a good match for high (16+) ohm speakers? Forgot to add that the manufactures rated sensitivity was based on 1 watt, not 2.83V.@mesch In that case 'sensitivity' is not the right word- 'efficiency' is.IME monostrapping the ST-70 is easy and works quite well. | |
| Looking for a pre-amp (Pass, ARC, BAT, Sim, PS Audio) I run all balanced in my system. I find it to usually sound better (in my system) to SE, even at short wire runs. At the least with XLR, I usually do not need to increase the volume as high :) But seriously, I realize that most tube equipment is S... | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? Loading is entirely for the benefit of the preamp not the cartridge. Here's how it works:The cartridge is an inductor. The tone arm cable has a capacitance. Since they are in parallel, the result is a tuned resonant circuit, often active at +100KH... | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? The Polarity pundit claims 92% of CDs are in Reverse Polarity. And he has a Polarity List to back it up. Furthermore the Polarity Pundit claims entire record labels are in Reverse Polarity. What evidence do you have? Who is right? I await your... |