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| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass The Legacy Studio monitors are Voltage Paradigm devices. So if you are looking for better bass on them, I would look into placement that allows you to take advantage of corners in the room, shorten the speaker cables if you can, stuff like that. | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? We ran tube-based regulation for years. I'm as a big a fan of tubes as anybody, but when we developed a proprietary regulator for high voltage, it was **immediately** so much better than the tube circuits that there was no going back.There are a l... | |
| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass Sgr, if your speakers are 98 db, its very likely that they will not play very good bass using an amplifier with a high damping factor.The reason is that a high damping factor is synonymous with amplifiers that can double the power as impedance is ... | |
| Need Help Choosing a Tube Preamp for a Classe Amp If you can go with balanced, it will reduce the sonic artifact of the interconnect cables. If done right, balanced line will allow you to go with very inexpensive cables with no sonic artifact at all. I've seen $85.00 cables (25 feet long) replace... | |
| Why Linear Tracking never took off? I got my first linear tracker, a Garrard Zero-100, in 1974. When I first saw their ad I thought they had the Holy Grail. After getting the machine, I wished dearly for 2 things: that it was manual operation from the ground up, and that they had sp... | |
| Need Help Choosing a Tube Preamp for a Classe Amp Does the Classe have a balanced input? Would you like balanced operation? | |
| Jolida 102B - enough power for Smaller Advents? Matyas, I too just had the speakers lying around. I find them wildly inaccurate- about all they are good for is figuring out if I have the notes right :)Unless you have very modest requirements (very small room, near-field listening, background mu... | |
| Amplifier question for powering Wilson Sophia Richard_stacy, Daryl has told me that also. However if you look at the design the speakers have taken over the years it is apparent that they are favoring tubes over transistors. The Watt is a great example- it has always been known for its 2-ohm/... | |
| Graham Phantom vs Triplaner I too have never experienced a 'drift' in VTF. I have 3 arms and they all behave the same way. In fact that has always been one of the nice things that the Triplanar has always been about- set it and forget it.The Phantom seemed a huge improvement... | |
| Amplifier question for powering Wilson Sophia Jtwrace, Wilson has used ARC for many years, and ARC has had Wilson for many years- no secret there! But Wilson's national sale manager used our gear in his own system at home for years also. ARC and Atma-Sphere both can make some power, but are v... | |
| Audio advancement - why? Kijanki, you and I are on the same page! | |
| Amplifier question for powering Wilson Sophia The Wilsons are designed on and for tubes and they are easy to drive. If I were you I would certainly consider broadening your amplifier choices... | |
| Jolida 102B - enough power for Smaller Advents? I run a Dyna ST-70 on the small Advents. I use them as studio monitors in my electronic music lab. I am always out of power! and my room is really small, 9 x 11 feet.If you are planning an amp like that, I would get a set of ZU Druids or the like.... | |
| Audio advancement - why? Kijanki, the difference between audible enhanced even and odd ordered is something like this: with the evens, we start to hear that they are there with about 0.5 to 1%. With the odds, we are well aware of them when they are about 0.0005% or so. Th... | |
| speakers with a "smooth" impedance curve If I can clarify something here- If the speaker was voiced to work with transistors, the smoother impedance curve is going to be a real boon if you are trying to use tubes.If the speaker is designed for tubes, the impedance curve likely will not m... |