atmasphere
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| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers +1 on that for sure :)I thought the notion that speakers, being transducers, vary much more in sound that do amps was universally agreed upon, and should therefore be selected first. The notion that power amps vary in character as much or more ... | |
| New Technics SL 1200 GAE In the meantime if you could post your initial findings on stock out of the box thoughts. They would be appreciated.OK- We took the machine apart doing a complete analysis. I’m very familiar with the older machines; I own one and have serviced the... | |
| Replacing Parasound p7, but with what? The reason the Parasound is softer on top isn't because it has less high end!Its because it has less distortion! John Curl (the designer) is well aware that the higher ordered harmonics in trace amounts can cause brightness, since the ear converts... | |
| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers if your tube amp has 4, 8, and 16 ohm taps (typical in tube amps, though the RM-200 offers 2, 4, and 8 ohms), and you hook up an, say, 8 ohm speaker to the 4 ohm tap, the power available to the speaker will be less than it would be if connecte... | |
| New Technics SL 1200 GAE Its a fairly easy matter to change the arm on the new SL1200. We are working on installing a 12" Triplanar on one right now. That's a bit trickier but still pretty doable.BTW, it shares very little with any of the previous 1200s- its an entirely d... | |
| Pre volume control - hardly moves but volume rises a lot Does this happen with all sources, or are you running digital only? | |
| Tube rolling preamp or power amp gain tubes, which ones (or both)? Always start in the preamp and work your way downstream. How this works is: if you don't get the signal right upstream, you can't fix it downstream. Have fun- don't drive yourself crazy (and by that I mean don't obsess over it- you can ruin tube s... | |
| Need Some Answers Building My First Home Audio System, and using Cornwalls Also, @atmasphere - interesting. When I called Klipsch, the man discouraged tube amps. Maybe that's because I prefaced our conversation with the word "affordable". (I'm still outside of year-long complete house remodel.)What does "clean" sound ... | |
| Need help with DIN to RCA phono cable troubleshooting so you should explain those benefits in the context of ''full symmetrical phono-pre'' which is much more expensive to makebecause on need twice as many components than by singleended phono-pre. If this is correct than...[snip]It isn't. It does no... | |
| Need Some Answers Building My First Home Audio System, and using Cornwalls For the most part it seems you've had some pretty good advice- given that you don't want to use tubes.Here's something to think about though! The Cornwall was designed to be played with tubes (the speakers made in the 60s were the same as the orig... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? @ct0517 +1 | |
| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers Ralph, you mentioned 'former' twice in the last part of your post.Ach!That should read: Again, this all comes down to intention. Is your intention to get the system to sound as good as it can or is it more important to simply play loudly? If th... | |
| Give me a straight Doc how bad is it? Play it and see. I used to see bent cantilevers all the time when I did consumer electronics repair putting myself through college. I've straightened many of them. As long as there isn't a dent in the cantilever you are fine. A dent will cause it ... | |
| Need help with DIN to RCA phono cable troubleshooting ^^ Actually except for the balanced thing, Dover and I were on the same page. I thought I had made that clear in my last post.I do feel I should clarify some things in **your** post however :) (please note that I am not quarreling) First, if an X... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? ^^Thanks!If you were planning to use an SET on the 57, you would likely use the 16 ohm tap. You would get a similar proportionate spread in total output power.However, the total output power does not represent what you would actually hear in pract... |