atmasphere
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| Magnepan, How Low Can You Go...power-wise The guy that ran the Magnaplar User's Group over on audioasylum.com was adament that the best amp possible for the 3.6/3.8 was our own MA-1.We have lots of customers running our M-60s, using a set of ZEROs. My impression is (for the ones with sing... | |
| Lost that "Tube Magic". Can you help? FWIW the technology **has** advanced over the last 50 years :) In its day, the Scott was a good amp, but if you look at what it cost and then calculate the decline of the dollar's value during that time (about 10:1), you get an idea of the minimum... | |
| Lost that "Tube Magic". Can you help? Eyediver, when you do a serious bit of service to an older amplifier, it takes time for those new parts to break in, and for the disturbances that result from the replacement to settle out. It may be way too late for this but I would advise runnin... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Audioquest4life, first, phase angle and the like is really not part of the discussion- so far. As far as the 802s go, sure, you can make a tube amp drive them and have them sound fine. We have had customers do so in the past. However, that is not ... | |
| Rickie Lee Jones "Pop Pop" I've had Traffic From Paradise on LP since it came out years ago. Its an import- same as Pop Pop. They both have excellent sound- nothing irritating about either one, so long as your arm can track it :) | |
| Building a 300B push-pull / Newbie question If you are on a budget, you have a number of challenges, but if I were you I would avoid amps that use an input transformer if cost is an issue. You can build a phase splitter circuit that if done right can sound better than a transformer for a lo... | |
| How do you drive 12 Ohm speakers? Agreed! BTW this points to our discussion on the Doubling Down thread... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Bob_reynolds, Matin Logan has worked for years to try to make their speakers work with transistors. But ESLs in general do not behave quite the way you describe. Most of them are looking for the same amount of power to make a given amount of outpu... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Peterayer, you are right, the Eggleston is designed around Voltage Paradigm rules, but some of the Pass amplifiers are not. You can find quite a bit of information on Nelson Pass' website regarding that. BTW his papers on distortion are excellent.... | |
| How do you drive 12 Ohm speakers? Bob_reynolds, its pretty easy when you've been doing for a living. If you look at the speaker, it is 12 ohms in the woofers and 8 ohms in the mids and highs. I had to surf their website a bit to figure out what speaker it is and it did not hurt to... | |
| XLR waste of time ? Jimjoyce25, that's really a tough call. The problem is that you have to find a preamp that is single-ended, built to a certain built quality, and then have a differential preamp that is otherwise the same topology and build quality. There are no s... | |
| Zu Essence mini review Our Druids play OK with our 30 watt amp, but it does seem like they come to life when using our 60 watt amps. With such amps they seem to have nearly unlimited dynamic range. | |
| How do you drive 12 Ohm speakers? This sounds like a very easy speaker to drive! The specs indicate that it favors tubes. You do need some power, as the efficiency is upper 80s/lower 90s.-Ralph | |
| Double down, good or bad? Peterayer, The drivability has to do with whether the driving amplifier is based on Power theory or Voltage Theory, and which approach the speaker designer used.Power Theory (or Power Paradigm) is where the amp seeks to make constant power into al... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Magfan, I also find the Magnaplanars easy to drive.Unsound, the TAS review using the Duettas did not use the autoformer, but in the case of the Full Ranges, without an output transformer of some sort, driving 1 ohm is difficult, even for transisto... |