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| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? Getting a small driver to do bass is hard. Its a matter of excursion.Getting it to do the highs is an entirely different problem! You get cancellation in the cone, which is why many single-driver speakers have a device called a phase plug the help... | |
| Tube Bias issue. What tap on the amplifier were you using with the MLs?MLs generally have a very low impedance and are rarely suited to work with tube amplifiers! It might simply be that the impedance of the speaker is playing a role. Here's a theory:Like any othe... | |
| The HH Scott 350 A MultiplexCircuitry Just FWIW, we can do a stereo alignment too. FM Stereo Multiplex generators are not as common nowadays as they used to be. So it does not surprise me that a newer shop might not have that instrument on hand. | |
| Philosophy: Bearing vs. Unipivot Groove spacing is in fact what I mean when speaking of horizontal speed. Many records are in fact cut with a constant groove spacing but most are not. At any rate, the arm can be made to track the variable groove spacing with no worries. | |
| The HH Scott 350 A MultiplexCircuitry Did they perform a stereo multiplex alignment? | |
| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? No.How's that for a simple answer? It sounds like the amp has a switching power supply. | |
| Philosophy: Bearing vs. Unipivot I owned a Rabco for years. I set it up with an opamp to sense the feeler contacts to reduce noise (I got tired of the feelers not making good contact, which would result in the arm lifting off at random points on the LP...) At the same time I also... | |
| Philosophy: Bearing vs. Unipivot ?? I'd be interesting in seeing how that applies here.I don't like unipivots because the bearing is so easy to damage. I've never seen an older one come through the shop that did not have a damaged bearing. It is the Achilles heel of unipivots.Its... | |
| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? 4% variation in voltage should be no worries. If the equipment cannot manage that it can be considered to be problematic. It is useful to ask what voltage the equipment is set up for though. If 235V instead of 240V, 250V is boarding on excessive. ... | |
| Requesting info on Audio Kinesis ZEPHRIN Speakers I heard the Zephrins at the RMAF running on equipment I know very well.They are easy to drive and really spacious. They also play impressive bass (Duke has always led the pack in getting good bass out of his designs). He is also a master of crosso... | |
| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? Its pretty apparent that while single driver speakers do many things very well, that they do **all** things poorly. Put another way, if you want to get the best out of them, consider setting them up with a good subwoofer at the very least. Getting... | |
| Power blackouts - problem for tube amp & speakers ^^ next time that happens and you have to send the amp back, have the manufacturer fix it so you don't have to do that. That's nothing to do with high end audio and everything to do with poor design. | |
| TECHNICS SP10 MK3 POWER SOURCE / SPEED CONTROLLER Its simple: You can use a small power transformer that makes 20 volts to 'buck' the US AC line voltage down to 100volts (120V - 20 =100V).The transformer need only handle the current required which is not a lot. The result is that it would be so s... | |
| Power blackouts - problem for tube amp & speakers I would see this as a bigger problem with a solid state amp, simply because when the power comes back on, it will be possible to thump on account of the preamp.Most tube amplifiers should take a power outage in stride with no worries- I know ours do! | |
| Help picking a tube preamp, please Ralph, just so you know, on our preamp (Atma-Sphere) the steps are very close together at low volume settings for more control with high output digital sources.Regarding bass: with a patented direct coupled output the MP-1 is the king of the hill,... |