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| Low-heat-output amp for Devore O/96 Rather than sacrifice your sound on account of heat (which both solid state and tube amps make), how about install a vent in the ceiling so you can vent hotter air out of the house? Its inexpensive (maybe $300) and is a lot cheaper than getting an... | |
| Oomph or pressure? is that normal for a passive?It is a common complaint.Passive systems, which include transformer volume controls, are a bit too simple to do their job perfectly. That is why you see so many threads about this topic.If all the parameters surroundin... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for 300b SET Amp If 7 watts won’t do it, you’ll need a lot more power due to the logarithmic characteristic of the human ear. The hotter tweeters were the result of simply pushing the amps too hard. | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? We've had a number of customers running stacked Quad 57s. They used our M-60 amplifiers, and the Quads were wired in series. David Magnan of Magnan Cable fame ran this combo for years prior to his retirement. | |
| Getting into tubes If I am going for tube sound I want to do just that which means tube rectified and not s/s rectified which is what many manufacturers do. Decware uses tube rectification and I have held on to my Taboo EL84 based tube amp. From what I recall... | |
| Low level buzzing coming from tweeters. @ncarvIf a tube is doing this, it won’t be one of the output tubes. They can make cracking and popping sounds but a low level buzz is unlikely. | |
| ARC Ref 75SEs - great with Wilson or Dynaudio speakers. What about Vandersteen 2CI? The 2CI is very tube friendly so I think its totally worth a shot. | |
| Autobiasing tube amp failure Consider yourself lucky as a few times they blew out my Tweeters.A tube failure won't blow out a tweeter! Tweeters fail because the amp being used is underpowered and is making too much distortion when driven too hard. My question is how can this ... | |
| New Technics SL1200G turntable We've been using a mat made by Oracle that works pretty well. | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? All planar speakers-certainly all magnepans-have crossovers; this is a main reason I prefer single driver or other non-conventional crossover designs, e.g. 1st order crossovers or "super tweeters" crossed over way up high with a simple filter (... | |
| Getting into tubes Are you referring to the S-30 amp? The only issue may be how much heat it produces. I see it draws 400 watts and assuming much of that gets disappated. My room is small and heats up quickly, plus I live in Southern California where it really do... | |
| Mellow speakers for a digital piano Seriously, try out a reverb. Its highly likely that is part of the sound you are after. | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? You'll tie your hands behind your back if you buy the amp first. Well, if you get a big Sound Lab, there really aren't a lot of amps that drive that speaker all that well. But it is at the same time one of the most transparent and full range speak... | |
| 20 Year Old Amplifiers compared to 2017 Lets not forget the Carver challenge to Stereophile Magazine (J Gordon Holt) that he could make a $700.00 amplifier (specifically his model 1.0) sound indistinguishable from any high end amp of their choice and he succeeded in doing so.Well...... | |
| Low level buzzing coming from tweeters. The amps are old VTL Deluxe 500's and, though the caps were replaced, there is some transformer hum. I'm wondering if it has just gotten worse over time and is transmitting to the speakers.Probably not. But depending on how the tubes are lit, if... |