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| 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. | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Right now the highest efficiency speakers are for the most part, horns. Most horns have more reactive drivers due to the fact that they employ greater precision in their voice coil gaps. This extra reactive nature tends to mess with amplifiers of ... | |
| Vintage Fisher, What's best 500C/B or 800B? Make sure the filter capacitors in the power supply are replaced before running the unit! Power transformers for those receivers are not all that easy to find; that is what is at risk if the caps are not serviced out. | |
| Tenor 75 Wi OTL A customer of mine has this amp:http://www.atma-sphere.com/products/ma3.htmlHe can run them all day in his room and not be any hotter, even though his home is not air conditioned and he lives in Guatemala!He accomplished this by putting the amps i... | |
| Tenor 75 Wi OTL I suspect that it is biased a littler harder than the Joule if that's the case. We've yet to work on a Joule although we have serviced Tenors in the past. | |
| Reel to Reel decks Astralography, I agree on the need to use analog from one end to the other in the recording process. When my band has released its LPs, although they had set up the studio before I joined the group, none of them had experience editing a master wit... | |
| Tenor 75 Wi OTL The Trancendent is Class AB vs. Class A operation of the TenorJust FWIW, the math does not support the idea that the Tenor was class A, not if it is also 75 watts output. IME, the tube is difficult to operate in the A2 region due to the prodigious... |