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| Phono stage with volume control? Jeff, that is essentially what our preamps are. We interjected enough switching to allow the AUX inputs to use the final stage of the phono as a line section. You might be able to find a used MP-3 for that price. They are completely balanced, just... | |
| Tube-friendly speakers Roblanger, all the Vandersteen 2 varients are tube-friendly. I know the Dali Mega-line is but I am not familiar with their smaller models.Tvad, in the case of the Merlin, the impedance swing is well within the capabilities of almost any tube ampli... | |
| Need suggestion on tube amplifier with XLR inputs I've yet to see any amplifier that is low power on one side and high on the other.We make a stereo 30/w channel amp called the S-30 and a several monoblocks. If you put the mids all in series our smallest monoblock, the M-60, may well make enough ... | |
| Need suggestion on tube amplifier with XLR inputs It sounds like you ideally you'd like a pair of amps that have lots of power on one channel, and just a little on the other -so you can run the high power on the mids, and the low power on the tweeter? | |
| Floorstanders designed to be against the wall? Hi Tvad, the T-1 has a 20Hz cutoff, the T-3 a 22 Hz cutoff (although I had mine made up to cut off at 20 Hz), the T-5 cuts off at 32 Hz and its hard to say what the Hartsfield does, since it is so woofer-dependent. I've seen it doing very well dow... | |
| Tube-friendly speakers Silverline used to be tube friendly some years ago, but the current stuff is not. There are two design paradigms used in speakers, and the Silverline stuff now subscribes to the idea that an amplifier must be capable of constant voltage, regardles... | |
| mbl 6011d or arc ref 3 or dartzeel preamp? I'm really puzzled at how these three preamps came to be in the short list- they seem so different.Balanced line offers the flexibility of extended cables without degradation, and the balanced line system was devised with the intention of eliminat... | |
| Floorstanders designed to be against the wall? Hi Rleff, yes we do. You can see the S-30 driving a set on the audiogon coverage of T.H.E. Show. (photo coverage thanks to Albert Porter)I've done that at home a lot too :) | |
| Need suggestion on tube amplifier with XLR inputs Attenuator- L-pad, in this case. Electronic crossovers really work well for getting more sound pressure, but its debatable whether they help sound quality. Some speakers are of such disparate design that sometimes there is no other way.In this cas... | |
| impedance vs sensitivity Yeah- those LUXMAN amps were pretty cool!Blindjim, Here is how it seems to work: regardless of the amplifier, there are speakers it will work with and others that it will not. In the case of an 8 ohm speaker that has dips, the dips are of no conse... | |
| Floorstanders designed to be against the wall? Springbok10, the Classic Audio Loudspeakers do that quite nicely. They are also completely full-range, smooth, detailed, dynamic (efficiency is 97-98 db), easy impedance (16 ohms)...The field-coil versions are hard to fault. They have the detail t... | |
| Loading Tube Equipment for Audition/Comparison Hi Peter, I have met a few amps that were unstable with no input. That's why I recommend a shorting plug, at least until you sort that out.#2 is correct.#3, with a shorting plug in place and no speaker load, measure the AC voltage coming out of th... | |
| whats the best amp for klipsch lascala 2? Mcphile, the Klipsch really do prefer an amplifier with a high impedance output, if you want detail, smoothness, extension and impact all at the same time. Tubes are usually the answer for this.If you just can't handle that, try putting a high pow... | |
| Need suggestion on tube amplifier with XLR inputs Mello, there are not a lot of low power balanced amps out there. Our S-30 is likely one of the few, but it is a stereo amplifier, so you would have to accommodate that if that is how you proceeded. It might be easier to get some smaller amp since ... | |
| impedance vs sensitivity Yes Kijanki, in the 1950s 16 ohms was common and there were 32 ohm speakers as well. Four ohms really didn't get popular until sometime in the 1970s. |