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| $$$Sensitive Speakers with $$Amps? Charles1dad, I think I did that last post pretty poorly! I meant to confirm most of Joe's comments. I was editing my post and deleted that part, then forgot about it. What I was commenting on really only applied to the M-60s he is using, which are... | |
| Analytical or Musical Which way to go? The quote goes"If it measures well but sounds bad you measured the wrong thing."The above is a fact, and is also pragmatic. Most measurements do a poor job as they really are not attending to human hearing rules. 'Musical' to me implies accurate w... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Actusreus, (in case its not clear from Al's comments) the reason some preamps offer more loading settings, and that they are audible has to do with the fact that such preamps are not 'graceful', as Al put it, when dealing with RF energy. IOW, the ... | |
| Need understanding on amperage Dhl93449, your math looks right but your conclusion doesn't. At the end of 10mS the supply voltage is only 24V so the current would be 24 amps- only 576 watts. The fuse would go a little longer and the 3600 watt figure would go much shorter or am ... | |
| $$$Sensitive Speakers with $$Amps? Trelja's experience flies in the face of what our other Horning customers report, but it might have something to do with Joe's amps being 12-15 years old without any updates (its clearly time, Joe- you know the warranty reactivates with the update... | |
| Need understanding on amperage Tonywinsc, that music has such transients and that a stereo needs either very high power and/or efficient speakers to reproduce those transients is not a matter of debate.What is a matter of debate is the math. Its more than just the current ratin... | |
| Oil For Nottingham Spacedeck? It doesn't foam up and lasts a long time. For turntables and tape machines its about as close as you get to a universal lubricant. | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? This is almost as frustrating as John Curl's JC-3 phono preamp offering only one impedance setting of 100 Ohms for MC. That one I'll never understand. The reason is if the preamp is resistant to RF at its input, the load on the LOMC is not critica... | |
| are some phono stages more resistant to hum? To clarify my comments, phono carts are ISOLATED devices, but are not inherently balanced. A true balanced voltage source would produce a symmetric V+ and V- signal referenced to common.A common method I use to identify a balanced source is what h... | |
| $$$Sensitive Speakers with $$Amps? Our amps only have one stage of gain. Hard to get simpler than that. In general its been my impression that cost is less important than the simple fact that some amps sound more like music than others. So my answer is now 'depends' as there are ex... | |
| are some phono stages more resistant to hum? You have to reference the input voltage to somewhere, and for phono inputs its the shield (-). If you could get a cartridge with a true balance output (like a center tapped transformer), with the split (or center tap) connected to the analog groun... | |
| Looking for the BASS THe lowest note on a Fender bass is 42Hz!Who are you trying to impress???Me. (organ pedal tones and synthesizers can go to 16Hz) That is who does most of the listening to my stereo. But I don't have subwoofers, instead I have speakers that go to 2... | |
| $$$Sensitive Speakers with $$Amps? The short answer is yes. If your speaker is high efficiency, you can get by with less power. Tube power in particular is expensive so this can have a huge effect on the price of the amp. | |
| Preamp or power amp has more impact to resolution? Chuck is right, if the source and preamp are unable to deliver the goods there is nothing you can do about it downstream. | |
| Need understanding on amperage Seriously, is anyone suggesting that the output section of this amplifier can deliver 3600 watts even briefly?? The output devices would be destroyed. Now if you assume a 4 ohm load rather than 1 ohm, the power is then 14,400 watts. Obviously this... |