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| What is the amp for magnepan's: tube or solid? If you can find a proper tube amplifier, word up is that is a much better way to go. Magnaplanars can reveal quite a bit that you may not want to hear from a transistor amplifier. Although usual word is that you need a 'high current' amp for these... | |
| Why do tubed preamps image better than SS? Eldartford-Staying OT, the thread is about preamps not amplifiers...But since you brought it up, the fact that certain transformer coupled amplifiers oscillate with high feedback is of no particular concern to me- but I'm guessing that you knew th... | |
| Why do tubed preamps image better than SS? Imaging is a direct result of low-level detail recovery and proper phase reproduction. Low level detail is a thing that tubes do better because of their better linearity at the low levels in the area where things like ambience and the like reside.... | |
| Speaker Recommendation for Tube Fan Here is a simple recommendation. If you are investing in a tube amplifier, your investment dollar will be best served if you get a speaker that is at least 8 ohms, particularly in the bass region. 16 ohms is even better. All tube amps, regardless ... | |
| Corroded tube pins - need help After you remove the corrosion, you might consider tinning the pin with solder to protect the metal. Otherwise the corrosion will be back. I would not attempt this unless you are adept at soldering. | |
| A cry for help to Snell B owners I ran Bs for some years. They did quite well. We were putting a lot of excursion on the LF drivers and had them replaced twice before Snell replaced them with a beefed up set and we had no further problems. The reason you can't get a grip on the d... | |
| Headphone tube amplifiers and OTL The Berning is a nice amplifier but in no way can it be considered an OTL. Just FWIW. | |
| TVC vs. active pre? The job of the line stage in a preamp is to similtaneously provide volume control and also control the effects of the interconnect cable. A depressingly large number of preamps (especially tube preamps) fail at this task. Passive volume control sy... | |
| Anyone in Vegas listen to the Gilmore speakers??? Well, I suppose the Gilmore is already halfway there, as it has always been available in black.Mark's not mentioned anything about you calling him like I mentioned to you last we spoke. It sounded to me like you had a good idea regarding the grill... | |
| Anyone in Vegas listen to the Gilmore speakers??? Dude, I have no idea what that guy was thinking, playing the stereo so loud. However its nice to know that with a reasonably powered amp that one cannot clip it.>Assuming an anechoic environment, the sound from a point >source decays at a ra... | |
| Anyone in Vegas listen to the Gilmore speakers??? Hi Albert, What, is Kenny G the Antichrist??Yes, I'm alright with them. It helps that the speaker handled my recording of Salubrious Invertebrae without bottoming out. Of course, like everything else in this sport, the final test will be how they ... | |
| Anyone in Vegas listen to the Gilmore speakers??? What Mark tells me is that there are dozens of colors to choose from. They way I understand it, the infamous ad that has been so effective and controversial is a photo of a prototype, hence the blue color. If you look at some of the photos that Al... | |
| Anyone in Vegas listen to the Gilmore speakers??? Sorry to disappoint you folks. First off, we were in the back room when that dude showed up and played the system at such a volume. However, For the record, temporary exposure to 115 db does not damage hearing unless your ears have some previous d... | |
| Anyone in Vegas listen to the Gilmore speakers??? -it took me a while to figure it out. Mark Gilmore had told me several times on the phone that the speakers need 50 hours of breakin to sound right, and this was proven at the show. When the speakers arrived, they had 10 hours on them. Shipping da... | |
| What makes different amps produce different sound? Some other variables that affect the sound of an amplifier:Humans are relatively insensitive to even-ordered harmonics and astonishingly large amounts are usually not objectionable. Even ordered harmonics tend to add 'bloom' or 'fatness' (in the b... |