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| Best Class A amp with SLAM The BEST amp with slam is probably the one that can do it best with most any speaker that is up to the task in most any room.This cannot be held as a universal truth. The problem is that certain speakers will not have the right impedance curve in ... | |
| Impedance Matching I would certainly consider it- you won't damage anything, it just may not sound its best.Could be you might get a loss of low frequencies with this combination. But that is not guaranteed. The output impedance at 20Hz will tell you. If it is the s... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics Something like 80% of our MA-2 amplifier production has been for Sound Lab owners. The Quad ESl 63 as been a good match for our M-60 and MA-1 amplifiers. Martin-Logans (which have a lower impedance) usually require a set of ZEROs (http://www.zeroi... | |
| phonostage paradox What happens when there is no cable hooked up to the input of the preamp? Does it hum then? | |
| Best Class A amp with SLAM Of course, the class A amp with the most slam is this one:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Products/#MA-3-but I assume that cost is playing a role here too :) | |
| Rivaling or Beyond the ESL 57 for Magical Midrange If you were to set up any of the speakers I mentioned with a nice SET, I think you would see right away what 'some' are talking about. | |
| Rivaling or Beyond the ESL 57 for Magical Midrange 'Magical midrange'...That is often considered the pervue of tubes...Three speakers to consider, given a desktop or smaller room, with the assumption that the speaker does not have to play the bottom octave.The Merlin TSMAudiokinesis (not desktop, ... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance ^^ No. All they do is translate the capacitance to a lower impedance. It is typical as a result that in an ESL the impedance will be high in the bass and low in the extreme highs.The Sound Lab for example is over 30 ohms in the bass. Yet you still... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance ^^ The reason is their impedance curve is not based on resonance in a box, it is instead is based on a capacitance. | |
| Dynakit 70 Stereo Question The amps with cloth-covered wire on the transformers go for more. Otherwise the chassis must not be rusted.These amps have plenty of bandwidth and fixed up properly will give any Mac or tube Marantz a run for its money. The output transformers in ... | |
| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? Zombie thread to eat your brains! | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance ^^ to clarify, its not about orientation.Sensitivity is 2.83 Volts at 1 meterEfficiency is 1 Watt at 1 meterIf the speaker is 8 ohms, they are the same.Now imagine a speaker with 90 db sensitivity.If the speaker is 4 ohms, the speaker will have an... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance What you post is true, however: impedance affects sensitivity.Correct- but its important to understand that impedance has no effect on *efficiency* whatsoever. IOW, efficiency is the measure of *power* driving a speaker while sensitivity is the me... | |
| Best Class A amp with SLAM The ability to weld and sound sweet are not necessarily mutual qualities!If the Krells were working for you how about find another set?? | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance ...most of the speakers on the 2013 Stereophile Class A list have some pretty wicked impedance and phase angle graphs, suggesting non-optimal tube amp matches.Stereophile does not recognize anything other than the Voltage Paradigm. So loudspeakers... |