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| empire 980 arm mistracks with various cartridges A Grado might suit nicely. I can't imagine the suspension of the cantilever is any good after so many decades. | |
| Is it speakers or my rock/metal music? Plus help ? Gentlemen!Loudspeakers do not care what you put through them and neither do the electronics. The only thing you might want if you play a lot of metal is good dynamic range coupled with good low end. But these are things that are good for classical... | |
| Why not horns? Ralph, way wrong. There were great horns when Harry hated them.....Tannoys have been great for a long time, various JBLs were, horns were all over in recording studios sounding great. Kiddman, I think you may have misunderstood my post. I happen t... | |
| Full-range recommendations A strong contender here is Audiokinesis. Duke, the designer, has been very good about getting bass extension that is some of the best bang for the buck in loudspeakers. They are easy to drive too, which helps a lot. | |
| JBL L100s - Power? I always have used tubes with the L-100. Played them fine, 60 watts is plenty of power. | |
| Cary SLP98P not working with Audio Research VT100 School of hard knocks... | |
| Audio Research pre-amps? If local is an issue, there are other manufacturers of tube preamps in your town. | |
| Cary SLP98P not working with Audio Research VT100 There's a power conditioner??OK- here is what I suspect is going on. If you move the amp to run directly off of the wall I suspect that may cure it. My theory is that the Cary has a fairly low cutoff frequency and is not particularly stable at tha... | |
| Cary SLP98P not working with Audio Research VT100 If the preamp works with the Parasound, you just ruled out the preamp as the problem. Sounds like something is up with the ARC. | |
| Why not horns? I remember once Harry Pearson (back in the 80s) commenting that horns weren't 'high end'. That sure has changed- no way he would say that now. | |
| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? quote]What is the definition of "good"? Sonic quality? Durability? Given the longevitiy of some tubes (300b comes to mind) and unless a tube fails "early," it will be hard to prove that new tubes are predictably shorter-lived compared to older one... | |
| Polarity between amps Hello Danham, 50% of all recordings are out of phase so this is not likely to make much difference. Its easier to hear absolute phase when the recording used only 2 microphones. Relatively speaking, that's not a lot of recordings. | |
| HOW TO MATCH PREAMP TO AMP Radni,Its the other way around. The output impedance of the preamp should be less than (<) that of the amp. A good figure is by about 1/10th that of the amp. | |
| High-efficiency speakers and high-power amps? If you have a push-pull amp (unless its one of ours) the distortion will increase at a certain minimum power level maybe 5 or 10 watts) and then *increase* at power levels below that.The distortion is audible and obscures low level detail. This wi... | |
| MBL 101e mk 2 Speaker Owners? We've had several customers using our MA-2s. To use them with the speaker, you need a small ZOBEL network in parallel with the speaker but that is easy to do. IMO/IME the speaker is not really all that hard to drive. The fact that it is omnidirect... |