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| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns Stimbo22, Brian seems to have designed his speakers so that he can use an active crossover. I suspect that if you were to open the cabinets, you would find some minor compensation components to deal with the characteristics of the drivers. The MA-... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? Kijanki, you and I are on the same page in that regard. It does you no good to drive 600 ohms if the circuit doing it sounds worse! | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Halcro, points are a sort of mechanical one-way diode. That is they are fairly efficient at transmitting vibration in only one direction. So if your points are pointed *down* under your tone arm: welcome to your plinth, the anti-vibration platform... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Certainly it is! The slew rate (or risetime) is a measure of how fast the amplifier can respond to a signal. The quicker it responds, the more likely the signal will be processed by the emotional centers of the brain (limbic system) rather than th... | |
| Phase inverting problem Tbg, we have had that feature in our preamps for the last 22 years. Its the least used switch on the preamp- by far! | |
| New amp being touted as among the best ever...... Let's just take a look at that model for a moment- the idea is that the amplifier is a 'voltage source' which is audio engineering shorthand for saying that it can make the same voltage into any load.This is great if the speaker is designed for th... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Now if running tubes, subjectively there is some argument, tubes have poor damping and hence very little bass control to speak off , a sealed enclosure might be an advantage here, TL too , due to the loading.Actually in practice the reverse is tru... | |
| New amp being touted as among the best ever...... The fact that an amplifier may or may not 'double down' really says nothing about its sound. | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns Right.I've spent a lot of time in the recording studio. I think you will find that the more you process the signal digitally, the less musical the final result will be.An fact the more you process the signal, analog or digital, the less musical th... | |
| Phase inverting problem The only way you are going to be able to hear absolute phase is if the recording is done with 2 microphones only. The vast majority use more than this. As soon as other phase relationships are introduced by any additional mics, the delicate inform... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Rauliruegas, OK let's go with that for a moment. You hang it from the ceiling- where is the tonearm? Hanging also? On a separate string? Obviously *that* is not going to work...So, you have to connect them together somehow so the sacred geometry i... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? Kijanki, with the 1600 ohm parameter selected, it assumes a high impedance at the other end as there would be distortion if it were actually driving a load of a lower impedance. You will hear big differences in cables with it set up this way.As a ... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Y'all realize that by going 'nude', that the platform has become your plinth, right? The same rules apply.Now if the original plinth has problems, is not acoustically 'dead', IOW has a resonant signature, it may well sound better to switch things ... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Unsound, just FWIW, field coil technology in and of itself has no power limitations any more than regular magnetic systems.Of course, most of the FC drivers we have seen so far are designed for high efficiency applications, and so do not handle al... | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns Stimbo22, I've used active crossovers quite a bit. They are very tricky to say the least. For the most part though, at least so far anyway, I have seen better results using one amplifier to drive the speaker while using a passive crossover. One th... |