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| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? Hi Axel, I really don't get all of what you are trying to say in your post to me. But- I did speak to the designer of the High Emotion Audio speakers, and he had some comments about poorly designed M-derived crossovers found in a lot of other loud... | |
| impedence value.? amp to preamp. Hi Bob, to really get a passive to work you get into trouble when you get over 10K for a value, even with short cables. That's why you are better off having the control inside the amplifier, or else inside the source (both inconvenient), and buffe... | |
| impedence value.? amp to preamp. Bombaywalla, it will help a lot, in one way, but now you have a different problem- drivability. There are very few sources that can drive 2.2K without distortion and/or bandwidth loss!There really is not a good way to execute a passive volume cont... | |
| SET vs OTL Everyone says they have the best. In the English language, the meaning of the word requires that there can be only one. All the others are then 'better' but not 'best'.This has been argued a lot elsewhere on this site. Any consensus on the idea of... | |
| phono preamp with volume? Stanwal, that's exactly my impression of transistors. Both technologies have colorations. Either way the goal is true neutrality. The extremes of tubes are overly lush, the extremes of transistors are overly harsh and dry, yet two preamps that exh... | |
| The disappearance of the traditional amplifier An active monitor that is worth its salt will require a balanced input, like the ATC. OTOH, field coils are making a huge comeback right now. Active speakers are not likely to see innovations like that since they are closed systems. So you are lim... | |
| need recommendation on high bandwidth cable Most high end audio cables are good for bandwidth. The problem is the source that is driving them. If the output impedance is high, the capacitance of the cable can roll off the highs. So if you want your cable to have bandwidth, the source drivin... | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? Cdc, I was referring to the S- series, with the new tweeter. It is without question one of the faster tweeters made, and they really had to work at it to get the woofer and crossover to keep up. But they did it, and also got the impedance curve to... | |
| impedence value.? amp to preamp. First, start with the source impedance. Then add to it the value of your passive. That is now the source impedance (much higher) at low volumes. A tube amp has a high input impedance- 100K is common. The result is that the high output impedance of... | |
| phono preamp with volume? Our preamps were designed as stand-alone phono reproducers. The line stage provides that last bit of gain to drive an amplifier to full output, but the big deal is that it is also designed to be able to control the interconnect, which (IMO) is an ... | |
| impedence value.? amp to preamp. The problem with a lot of passives is that the input impedance of the amp interacts with the cable capacitance and the source impedance of the volume control.The result is that there is reduced bass and impact at low volumes. Passives really work ... | |
| Tube amps that kick ass? Hi Keith, our email server has been down the last 2 days, so I will answer your question here:Most of our Vandersteen 5/5A customers run the MA-1- and they say its spectacular! It appears that the M-60 should be able to drive the speaker too (the ... | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Jj2468, if treated with care, old tapes can have excellent fidelity even if made in the 1950s.Ken, I use a sort of commercial timer oven for making pizzas, which works extremely well since it takes a while to warm up. I've also used my oven at hom... | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? I can name two: High Emotion Audio, which has one of the fastest tweeters ever made (which is also quite relaxed at the same time) and the Classic Audio Loudspeaker equipped with field coil drivers. It shares the high speed/relaxed qualities of th... | |
| Tube amps that kick ass? Just for the record, 'Solid, tight bass' does not describe real bass- that sort of description makes me think of transistor bass, which is to say it has punch but no definition. If you want definition, you have to have tubes.A lot also depends on ... |