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| Bass leaves after amp warms up? Fishing, break-in does not affect bass in amplifiers so much. It does in speakers though. If you have not heard the bass come around in a week we can safely assume (as we did before) that it is not the amplifier at fault. | |
| Tube Mono-Block Recommendation Looking at the specs you will want something with at least 100watts in most rooms.So- how big is your room, how lively is it and how loud do you like to play the stereo?If you are dealing with tube amplifiers, its better to rate the speaker in ter... | |
| Tube amp down, need guidance from the experienced With most pentode or tetrode power tubes these days 2000 hours is about right. After that you are lucky. | |
| Tube Mono-Block Recommendation I like the Amps, to be fast, Accurate and musical as possible. Giving me close to Transistor Amp Clarity That should be no problem :) | |
| Sleeper Debut Lps...70s classic rock I've always been a fan a King Crimson. I do demos at RMAF and the like with the 2nd and 4th LPs in particular. Both are quite well recorded. I have original imports of both, but if you have an original American pressing they are quite good too!Aft... | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE Did anyone drop this link yet?http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.phpThese two speakers seem to operate under two different paradigms. The Tannoy is the Power paradigm, the Magico on the Voltage Paradigm. So you will... | |
| Do you play an instrument? Helps in speaker eval? I've played in orchestras and bands since 6th grade. However my experience mirrors Wolf's regarding how it sounds when I am playing as opposed to when someone else is playing.Musicians are frequently more interested in the notes being played than ... | |
| Vintage Crown D 150A II Amp -- How good was it? Its not the transformer. Either bad filter capacitors in the power supply or a channel may have a damaged transistor. | |
| Tube amp down, need guidance from the experienced I would just change the power tube and see if it works.If so, then I would investigate perhaps replacing power tubes if they are getting weak. Arc-over failure is a common failure mode of weak power tubes.If the amp does *not* work I would get the... | |
| Pre-amps with seperate power supplies ..... Rrog, I appreciate that- but the reason we went to IECs in the mid-80s was because we already knew at that time that the power cords made a difference. At that time we didn't know if anyone overseas would even want our amps... It does seem to me t... | |
| Any rock fans out there? Thanks Viridian. To this day I am always amazed that those guys let me play with them. BTW we have 2LPs out and will be recording the 3rd shortly. | |
| Any rock fans out there? Does playing in a rock band count?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpCKtWx-TcEIt was 110 degrees in that space when we played this show... | |
| Stainless Steel Binding posts on speakers? Good- a different metal for the nut prevents galling of the threads. | |
| Class A Watts Lowrider57, the way the two types of amplifier technologies distort is somewhat different. With tube amps you might get a bit more of the lower orders (so you would get a richer, fatter sound, that could border on muddy, as those are all terms aud... | |
| tube amp goes with coincident total victory ii ?? The actual efficiency seems to be in the low to mid-90s depending on the model. So you do want some power, unless you have a very small room. I find that with most of the speakers 60 watts is adequate, but its nice to put more power on the larger ... |