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| Tube power vs Solid state power, how much is enoug 93 db is a medium efficiency, not high. High would be over 100db. Plus you have to factor something else when you use the word 'senstivity'. It is NOT the same as efficiency.The Senstivity spec is 2.83 volts measured at the speaker terminal and th... | |
| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? Not at all. Horns, like cone speakers, come in a variety of performance capabilities. IOW, some work very well, are highly revealing and others pretty much suck at the same task- just like cone or for that matter planar speakers. It would be throw... | |
| Sonics of Soundlabs Time for my 2 cents again: Never attempt to audition a Sound Lab with transistor amps! You will come away with the mistaken impression that the speaker is harsh and has no bass. This is not the fault of the amplifier so much as it is bad physics t... | |
| Tube power vs Solid state power, how much is enoug My 2 cents (like anybody asked...)?Trying to get disparate amplifier technologies to get along in the same system is challenging to say the least. You'll need some sort of electronic crossover, which is an additional (and audible) building block, ... | |
| High impedance Speakers I have advocated high impedance speakers for a long time, not just for my own activities, but for the fact that any tube amplifier with a high impedance tap on the output transformer will perform noticably better with a high impedance speaker (in ... | |
| Sonics of Soundlabs Keep in mind that the room dimension issues above apply to all speakers, not just Sound Labs. I have found that having the capability is more convincing regardless of the size of the room.Also keep in mind that to drive Sound Labs you must use a t... | |
| Causes of long term listening fatigue? You are correct- the reason is that our ear/brain systems are tuned to accept odd-ordered harmonic content as *the* loudness cue (read: Listener fatigue) in anything we hear. Anything that causes an emphasis to those harmonics results in listener ... | |
| Attention Minneapolis Audiophiles We've got speakers, amps, everything you need. When you are ready to make your comparison, let me know. If you want to hear what the BAT and Aesthetix stuff does beside the MP-3, I am game for that too. | |
| Causes of long term listening fatigue? LF is caused by odd-ordered harmonic content in the signal, usually harmonics of the 9th order and beyond. These harmonics are emphasized by the use of negative feedback in amplifiers and by non-linearities in transistors (and to a lesser degree b... | |
| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? Just FWIW... to get horns and other high efficiency speakers to sound right usually involves an amplifier with a relatively high impedance output. Nelson Pass published an excellent article that raised this issue in Audio Express around the beginn... | |
| High impedance Speakers Classic Audio Reproductions makes two 16 ohm speakers, the T5 and the T1, which are both moderately high efficiency too (95 and 97db respectively). | |
| Progressive Rock You can't talk about Prog these days without mentioning Porcupine Tree. Most of their stuff is on LP too.My system, while not designed to play rock at all, is fine with it (and I tend to be brutal about it...) and I am one of those at the shows th... | |
| Attention Minneapolis Audiophiles Hi Art,I'm game! | |
| Subtlety ? do any American amps do it? Yes. Is this a trick question?? | |
| Our we Lazy? Ease of use vs performance has been with humans for a long time. Its still not a good excuse though. If the goal of this hobby is to get as close to the recorded sound as possible, then ease of use issues have to be tolerated in that quest, to som... |