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| What defines a good tonearm I don't care what fancy gimbal bearing you have you cannot beat a needle on a dimple.That is of course exactly how the bearings in the Triplanar are built. Except they are about 8 grades harder than the hardest commercial bearings, DHS notwithstan... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Timlub and Unsound, back in the 1950s the tube was the only game in town. Its no mystery that tube power is expensive- by the late 1950s the most powerful amps for home use made only about 60 watts per channel.Now it should not be a matter of proo... | |
| Know of any true bullet proof equipment stories? Back in the early 1970s I used to work at the Allied Radio Shack 5-state service department. We had a Realistic receiver come in that was so melted from a fire that the knobs were blobs. The unit was sooty from one end to the other. It was sent to... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? Stickman451, sorry, speaker choice without taking the amp into consideration will lead to expensive mistakes. If you think otherwise you will be a great resource to your local dealer. | |
| What defines a good tonearm my perspective is that the most significant percieved and discussed weakness of a unipivot is actually it's biggest advantage, which is the freedom to wiggle. it is the micro and nano wiggling following the groove unimpeded that gives it the advan... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Atmsphere, of course that is only your opinion, many if not most, have come to the opposite conclusion.Sorry, Unsound. What I have stated is simple fact; its not a matter of debate nor can I do anything to change it. Facts are like that. If you se... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? My point is there are no rules that it must be a tube amplifier.The market clearly supports my point.Audiofeil, Well said by one who sells both tubes and transistors.Both of us point to the market to support our positions.In the end, it is the use... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? There are no rules it must be a tube amplifier.Audiofeil, I am sure you are aware that there are many people who don't agree with you on this. That is why the tube industry continues to exist 50 years after being declared 'obsolete'. However, we d... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Mapman, the simple fact is that any speaker that has high efficiency conforms to the Power Paradigm unless the designer went through extraordinary steps to prevent that.All SETs and most zero-feedback amps are also on this paradigm. Yes, it is a '... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? Picking the speaker first is not a good idea. Many people think it is, but then find out later that they are thus married to a certain kind of electronics to make that speaker work.The fact of the matter is you have to do research. For example, if... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Unsound, I don't know. I can tell you this- one of them got "Best Sound at Show" at CES a few years ago, from Jonathan Valin of TAS. He followed up at the succeeding RMAF by saying that the new version of that same speaker (being played at that sh... | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... Soundlabs don't actually need all that much power, but transistor amps (including class D) have trouble making power into the impedances of the Soundlab. Its for this reason that people using transistors tend to use very high power amps with them.... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Are you saying that an amplifier will have to have fixed current to sound good on horns ... ?Weseixas, No. A constant power characteristic seems to be adequate, although Nelson Pass has shown that constant current amps work well for this as well. ... | |
| Ocellia speakers and power Johnk, are you saying these examples are flat at 40Hz? -3db? This is clearly an area of confusion; for me if the speaker is 6db down I'm happy to say it 'has response to' but I would not call it honest at that frequency... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? Speakers and amps are not a chicken and egg thing. They have to work together. http://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.htmlIf the two do not work together no amount of cash will fix it. |