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| 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... | |
| UHA Reel to Reel/Tape Project opinions Mikelavigne has got it spot-on- digital still has a long way to go before it will beat out the best of analog tape! If you spend some time in a recording studio using high quality microphone feeds (in my case, refurbished Neumann U-67s driving ref... | |
| XLR waste of time ? Nrenter, you got it exactly right. That is why I am careful to stress 'properly set up' and 'low impedance' as those things are critical to getting the performance out of cables in general and balanced lines in particular.Preamps with RCAs tend to... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Unsound, I've heard a set of our MA-1s driving the old Full Ranges, which were one ohm (we used a set of autoformers that had one ohm taps). There is an old TAS review which mentions that from the early 90s as the speakers were owned by a TAS reve... | |
| XLR waste of time ? Jimjoyce25 All the subtle design parameters, like cable geometry, purity of materials, conductors spacing, the use of platings in connectors and the like vanish as variables when you use the low impedance balanced line system.In high impedance sin... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Unsound, we got a Golden Ear Award for our MA-1 driving a set of Apogees. This is a zero-feedback tube amp BTW.Kirkus, its clear to me that your perspective is that of the Voltage Paradigm. As to papers on the subject, one was written by one of th... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Kirkus, you are right in most of your posts and apparently either did not read something somewhere in mine or misinterpreted it. First, I'm not talking about clipping here- at all. I am well aware of the significance of the woofer in the box! The ... |