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| Best Amp for my Pipedreams and ML 32 The best I ever heard the Pipe Dreams sound (and it was stunning) was driven by the big 400-pound GamuT S-300 amplifier. I think that amp is no longer made, but every now and then one shows up used.Duke | |
| The under 10K speaker Desalvo55,Sounds like you're on an epic quest for a speaker that you will live with for many years.To a certain extent, high-end audio is about coming to know yourself. You have to become an expert on what really matters the most to your ears and ... | |
| Speaker match with Pass Labs XA-160 Grandme,Your amps can drive just about anything from inefficient planars to 107 dB efficient horns. High power Class A amplification can pretty much do it all. Obviously you like the Virgos and RELs because you're keeping them. So... in what ways ... | |
| Tried 2 pairs of speakers for 2 channel? I have built several experimental bipole systems.One disadvantage of a bipole setup is that you will probably get a severe dip in the on-axis frequency response at the frequency where the path length difference from the woofers to your ears is equ... | |
| The BEST Listening Chair u’ve ever had or saw?? I have a customer who has something called "The Perfect Chair", and it's the most comfortable place I've ever parked my caboose. Not that I'm a chair connoisseur by any stretch; I'm unfamiliar with the others mentioned here.Duke | |
| QUAD vs Martin Logan vs Magnepan Newbee tells it like it is.I've owned three pairs of Quads, five pairs of Maggies, and one pair of Martin Logans. Here's the way I'd put it: The larger Maggies tend to have a relaxing and forgiving tonal balance, but are a little lacking in upper ... | |
| Marten Design Miles II vs Avalon Opus Ceramique..? Ceramic cone woofers and midranges have their advantages and their disadvantages.Their rigidity gives them more piston-like behavior, which translates into excellent clarity (assuming a well-designed, low distortion motor). However, a conventional... | |
| Low watt tube amps/pros/cons Hi Reubent,Here's a pretty good freeware program. The vent length calculations aren't totally reliable. Box stuffing isn't accounted for, nor is enclosure wall losses, but this will get you in the ballpark:http://www.ggimages.com/spsim/In practice... | |
| Low watt tube amps/pros/cons Out of curiosity, I clicked on the link Tvad provided above.The link took me to a speaker with an internal volume of roughly 3 cubic feet (my estimation), and a claimed efficiency of 94 dB/1 watt/1 meter with bass extension (-3 dB) to 26 Hz.Accord... | |
| dual subs.....how & where to install? I'm aware of at least two schools of thought on the subject.The first would recommend placing one sub to the extreme right of the listening position, and the other to the extreme left of the listening position. This works with the ear/brain system... | |
| Taking audio too seriously? My audiophilia nervosa eventually reached the point where I had to do some serious soul-searching and make a far-reaching decision: Either join a twelve-step program, or become a dealer. Dukeps: On the magnet orientation question, are those ferrit... | |
| ESP Concert Grands...... I don't know where to hear them in NYC, but do applaud your including the big ESP's on your shortlist. The Concert Grand is a superb loudspeaker in my opinion. Nope, I don't sell 'em. If you're genuinely looking in that price range, and if you don... | |
| New to electrostatics, need advise for Quad 2805 Excellent advice given by Newbee.On the bass issue, with a dipole close proximity to the rear wall or a corner can actually decrease rather than increase the bass, because it's the out-of-phase backwave that's getting the benefit of boundary reinf... | |
| subwoofers and panels don't mix I think that most people buy subwoofers largely by the numbers, and the numbers aren't kind to transient response optimizing designs.Consider two subwoofers, identical in size and price. The first one is -3 dB anechoic at 40 Hz, and second one is ... | |
| Soundlab M1 and Alpha-Core cables Yes, Alpha-Core cables work quite well with SoundLabs. That's one of the cable lines I considered carrying, but ended up with something else (I'm a SoundLab dealer).A cable that takes the wide, flat, thin, low-skin-effect geometry even further is ... |