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| How to get the impact of a live concert? Wolf, General Electric proved that that the human ears uses odd ordered harmonics to determine the volume of a sound back in the mid-60s. Its not really open to debate anymore- its more about- what to do about it?IMO what their research indicates ... | |
| Coherent Speakers. 'Clear'? No mention of amps... this *does* sound like an ad. | |
| Soundlab Speakers - Budget Amp Suggestions Grannyring, what mod did you perform? Did you remove the big resistor? | |
| What type amp to drive proac response 2.5 You should be able to find a very nice tube amp for that price. 60 watts ought to do nicely.You can find refurbished Harmon Kardon Citation 2s for that price. | |
| Another cheater plug thread Removing a chassis ground might break a ground loop and sound good but it is deadly if you touch the unit's chassis, and any conductor to ground. Amend to 'could be deadly'. Its that 'could' that is why there are things like UL and CE directives.I... | |
| Soundlab Speakers - Budget Amp Suggestions Gwho, I realize that the budget is an issue but one thing you will have to face it its really hard to get Sound Labs to sing if you have transistors. Transistors as you know try to double power as the impedance of the load is halved, which is anot... | |
| Amplifier Capacitance That's interesting. I would have thought the Roland stuff to go lower. We set our poles at 2 Hz so there would be no phase shift at 20Hz. We use servos too- in fact its part of our patent. It was a trick making them be stable with cutoff frequenci... | |
| Capacitor question Its not a good idea to parallel coupling caps. Different caps have different 'speeds' on account of their dielectric constants. The result smears the sound- that seems the best way to describe it.You are always better off just giving it your best ... | |
| Soundlab Speakers - Budget Amp Suggestions Grannyring, just FWIW the Atma-Sphere MA-1 would have been underpowered on many of the older Sound Labs.BTW, Roger West has a new back panel that should be available as an update to any A-1 or similar Sound Lab. It seems to be based on a lot of th... | |
| Amplifier Capacitance Kijanki, I thought you might find this interesting. Years ago I worked on a popular tube preamp. I found that it was a copy of the Marantz 7 circuit, sans tone controls. This preamp tended to have a problem- which was if you played a bassy track t... | |
| Amplifier Capacitance Bombaywalla, sorry for my tardy response; obviously you got it right. | |
| Amplifier Capacitance There is one missing element.That is that the power supply has a timing constant. That is to say, there is a certain time period that will elapse if the power transformer is unplugged, where the voltage will sag to a certain point while the supply... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Here you go:http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/general/messages/62/627320.htmlOne thing not mentioned in that thread is the in 80% of all audiophile conversation, the word 'dynamics' can be effectively replaced by the word 'distortion' without chang... | |
| What type amp to drive proac response 2.5 Its a tube-friendly speaker. 60 watts is a nice power with them too. We've had lots of customers using 2.5s. | |
| Best Speaker Impedence for Tube Amplifiers Here is the rule of thumb:"all other things being equal, your tube amplifier performance dollar is best realized by the use of a higher impedance speaker- 8 being better than 4, and 16 being better than 8".Tube amps in general will make lower dist... |