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| Symdex speakers any information on these? Hi Lee! Its good to hear you are still around! You may recall that we showed together at CES back in the early 90s.All the Best,-Ralph | |
| impedance vs sensitivity Sensitivity and Efficiency are two specs that try to express the same thing from different points of view. The different points of view are the Voltage Paradigm and the Power Paradigm, which are opposing concepts of how to design and test amplifie... | |
| Where does fatique come from? Our ears use certain odd-ordered harmonics in order to determine loudness. We are very sensitive to these harmonics; if they are altered even by trace amounts we will develop 'listener fatigue' as it was know as in the old days. Anything that can ... | |
| Please suggest good balanced Preamp FWIW, the line section of the MP-3 has 4 tubes. The MP-1 line section has 6 tubes. Either way, the tube warranty is for a year. If you are one who is into swapping tubes, then I recommend you run the unit without the cover until you have sorted ou... | |
| binding post break in IME When you disturb the wiring of an amplifier it will have to break in again before you can hear what you did. A lot of people ascribe this break-in period to the part that they installed, but it appears that a lot of the time that is not the ca... | |
| Musical full-range in the $3-4K range used? Duke sold a set of speakers to one of my friends here in town, so I got to hear them in my system before delivering them. I really was not prepared for how good the speaker was! Very well integrated, good bass extension (into the upper 20s to my e... | |
| The best phono stage out there? Jcarr , we certainly agree about that! There are so many things that have to be taken into account that any designer that focuses too closely on any one aspect may well be doing so at his/her own peril. I think, like you (I imagine), that while it... | |
| Al Stiefel of RMAF Has Passed Away Al and Marjorie have always been special to me. I've always been grateful for their work on RMAF. I was really shocked and saddened when I saw the announcement this afternoon. All the Best to you, Al! | |
| The best phono stage out there? Jcarr, while I agree with most of what you have said, and I also feel that its a bad idea to make generalizations, especially in **this** sport, I can safely say that I have yet to see a decent circuit where feedback was also a good idea. Certainl... | |
| Tube amp recommendation Hi Jax2, my point has to do with equipment matching. An SET driving a 92 db speaker is going to get clipped a lot if you listen to demanding musical passages. On a speaker like that, you would need a lot more power- 60 to 100 watts, in order to ge... | |
| Tube amp recommendation FWIW if the amp is good, its good with rock, hip hop, electronic, classical- whatever.Contrary to opinion above, the size of the woofer and the ability for the amp to control it really is a red herring. A small amp controls a big woofer just fine.... | |
| The best phono stage out there? Hi Ecka, active phono EQ works inside a feedback network in the phono stage (the feedback takes a bit of the output signal and feeds it back to the input). Because the signal propagates through the phono section at a very finite speed, the feedbac... | |
| Coincident Victory or Eminent Tech LFT8 Coincident got a rough ride from Stereophile years ago if memory serves. Like happened with a number of other companies during that era, the Stereophile comments were undeserved. On account of that, Stereophile developed a reputation in the indust... | |
| Help me get the most out of my Merlin TSM MX Hi Bobby, I think you have been using OTLs longer than that- it was at least 10 years ago that we first showed with you (in that time, FWIW, we've made a lot of progress- the newer amps have a lot more authority and are smoother with more detail..... | |
| Help me get the most out of my Merlin TSM MX Another way to make sure you are getting the most out of the speaker is to use an OTL. Either the Merlins were designed on OTLs or else the speaker was designed to be very tube friendly. I would not mind finding out how Bobby has used OTLs with th... |