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| Raidho D1's and recommendations for amplifiers The size of your room and your listening tastes are going to play a big role here. If your room is larger you may find that you don't have enough power. Moderate and smaller rooms should be fine. The speaker appears to be a moderate 6 ohm load- an... | |
| Driver/Input tubes The 12AX7 has a lot of gain (mu of 100 for those into technical stuff) and so is useful for voltage gain.However the gain of the tube is traded off with a high impedance and so it is lousy for driving power tubes! Therefore a 12AT7 is employed (on... | |
| help me build a cheap second system If you can find a Dynaco SCA-35, pick it up and have it refurbished. It makes about 17 watts per channel and has MM phono preamp built in.A cheap CD player that sounds quite decent is the Oppo.If you can find a set of Realistic speakers with the L... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution A super tweeter is one that operates at about 10KHz and above. A regular tweeter might only roll in at about 2KHz or so. | |
| McIntosh MR78 tuner repair Cleaned? I assume more than just dusting it out?How old is the unit? If from the 1960s, have the filter capacitors in the power supply been replaced recently? If not they are overdue. | |
| SOS: Andy Bowman - Vintage Tube Services We've been recommending Andy to our customers for close to 20 years. He seems to always do well. | |
| Barnes & Noble and vinyl LP's We got 'em in Minnesota. I know they are selling because I bought one... | |
| Balanced interconnects and non-differential amps FWIW there is a simple method of getting the amp to process both phases of the incoming signal without changing the character of the amp. If the XLR connection is already in place this is very easy to do.All that need happen is a coupling cap from... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Adding a super tweeter would be another method. | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state ^^ Exactly. Thanks Al. | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Phase is tricky! We can't hear phase on simple tones like a sine wave, but we can hear it in a spectrum of frequencies. Our ears use phase to construct the sound stage. If phase is altered, it can also be interpreted as tonality. I had this demons... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state I don't see anything that supports your statement- perhaps you could point it out? | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state You didn't look deep enough.From the Wolcott site:http://www.wolcottaudio.com/WA_presence.htm:What if we told you that our very different tube amplifier had highly accurate autobiasing, a nearly infinite damping factor, acted as a pure voltage sou... | |
| Input sensitivity, Gain and Preamp matching Pani, If you really are serious about this and plan to keep your loudspeakers, do yourself a favor and get an amplifier with significantly more power. At a minimum you are going to need 60 watts (my room is very similar dimensions FWIW).IOW in you... | |
| what speakers If you have the budget, the Audiokinesis Dreammaker 2 will work fine with that amp and is more efficient and an easier load than the others you mentioned. It also plays well into the 20Hz region. |