atmasphere
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| The use of equipment as "tone controls" Wireless200, as time has gone by and my equipment has improved, I have found that many 'bad' recordings were exacerbated by problems in the equipment. For years now I have used that as a yardstick. The playback should be unperturbed by a bad recor... | |
| speakers for classical music If the speaker does classical music well it should do rock and jazz just as well, else it has some sort of rather serious flaw. It would only a matter of time before a classical recording would show up that flaw big time (try an original press of ... | |
| mo' better bass: any substitute for watts? Saki70, with regards to efficiency vs impedance, to me they seem to carry about the same weight. However if the speaker is really low efficiency, you are going to have power issues driving it (BTW 'really low' is 87db or less). Given that that is ... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" I have plenty of recordings that seem bass deficient to me. I don't listen to recordings for bass or lack thereof- I listen to the music (unless I'm doing some sort of reference work). I do want honesty though, I'll take the lack of bass in some r... | |
| Anyone into 78s, mono classical LPs? Piedpiper, I would love to find a 78 copy of the Four Last Songs, by Richard Strauss. It was conducted live by Wilhelm Furtwangler, and is easily the best performance of the Four Last Songs. I have the HiFi mono version, with Schwartzkopf singing,... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" The idea of tone controls is very different from the idea of using equipment **as** tone controls!The whole point of high end audio (IMO) is to get as close to reproducing the original musical event as possible. If you have ever played with tone c... | |
| mo' better bass: any substitute for watts? Saki70, FWIW Steve McCormick, who has been making solid state amps for years, reports that his amps sound better driving a 4 ohm load though the ZERO, such that the amp is loaded at 16 ohms. His amps easily double power- they have no problem drivi... | |
| Need help What monoblock power amps for bass? Pryso, in many bigger setups you have a source, a preamp, some sort of interconnect for all this, the amps and the speakers.We all need the source, the interconnections, the amps and the speakers. Some people feel the preamp is not needed (separat... | |
| mo' better bass: any substitute for watts? Saki70, I don't like the word 'synergy' as it suggests that we are going to balance one defect against another, and I think that in the case that we are talking about, the word is 'compatible' and the answer is 'yes'. Loop and global feedback are ... | |
| mo' better bass: any substitute for watts? Saki70, in the old days you did. Then transistors came along, and the industry figured out that it could charge almost the same money for the transistor amps, while in fact they were costing only about 1/10th as much. Suddenly power was cheap.It w... | |
| Class A, AB Maich, it was not clear to me initially that you were talking about a switch on the amp to change class of operation.There are a variety of amplifiers made over the years with this feature- we have built a few ourselves.Generally, when switching t... | |
| Need help What monoblock power amps for bass? Audiobb, my experience has been that while you can get much greater volume levels by bi-amplifying, you also pay a big price- figuratively and literally! First, to do it right you have to use and electronic crossover. Good ones are expensive, and ... | |
| Class A, AB Maich, if you were describing two independant amplifiers in one chassis that somehow both drove the same speaker without blowing each other up then you would be right. Personally I've not heard of such a thing. The definition of Class AB is: Class... | |
| Need help What monoblock power amps for bass? Audiobb, any idea what the impedance curve of the woofer section looks like? That will play a big role with the amp that you choose! Have you talked to Alan about this? He should be able to help you on that one. | |
| mo' better bass: any substitute for watts? Saki70, thanks for your comments.What we are talking about is 2 things: 1) output impedance as an actual raw impedance, not complicated by negative feedback (IOW 'open loop') and 2) servo gain- the amount of negative loop feedback employed.A lot o... |