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| Is high frequency extension important to openness It may be argued that wide dispersion at high frequencies is just as important as extension, if the goal is openness and airiness. Reverberant energy contributes to the sense of ambience and acoustic space, and a wide-pattern tweeter will give you... | |
| Dynamic versus Electrostatic Part Deux Larry -GamuT discontinued that model; GamuT is still very much in business, though no longer owned by founder/designer Ole Christiansen. | |
| which pure class A amp to use or 93dB speakers The Aleph 3 is a very sweet amplifier. In a bit more lively amp, you might consider the Clayton S40; there's a used one listed at $1250 right now. I tend to think the Clayton would be a bit better synergy with the Silverlines (which are already vo... | |
| SET amps with cajones and finesse Good call, Wellfed! I was still thinking "inside the box" when I typed out my response above - hadn't seen your post at the time.Yes I have a pair of Zeros for my M-60's, and with especially difficult speakers they make a very substantial improvem... | |
| SET amps with cajones and finesse DeHavilland makes a nice 50-watt SET using a big Russian transmitter tube. They (and a number of other manufacturers) also make amps using the 845 tube, which is about half as powerful. http://www.dehavillandhifi.com/Wavac makes SET's up to 150 wa... | |
| Dynamic versus Electrostatic Part Deux Hi Larry,It sounds to me like you might be getting what we call a "crunch" - on the leading edge of a powerful dynamic transient, the sound breaks up.My suggestion is to turn the bias up higher on that speaker for a few seconds, so that you get an... | |
| Dynamic versus Electrostatic Part Deux Hi Larry,Great description of the Sound Labs, in particular the top end. With my first pair, I really didn't single out the top end and appreciate how good it was (too busy dancing around the room I guess). Then I went to CES for the first time. T... | |
| Most forgiving speakers? Often a speaker that is especially "forgiving" has a somewhat recessed upper midrange/lower treble region. This is the region where the ear is most sensitive (as indicated by the Fletcher-Munsen curve), so any coloration in this region is especial... | |
| Anything Like a Joule Electra? Welcome to the wonderful, seductive world of OTL's! I'm a dealer for a different brand of OTL amp, but have a lot of respect for the Joules.On paper at least, the Atma-Sphere OTL amps I sell appear to be a better match for your 4-ohm Dynaudios. Th... | |
| $4000 to spend on a SS power amp - help me choose Given your requirement for tube-like warmth, I'd say the Rowland is probably the front-runner from your list. Timo's characterization of the JC-1 fits my experience as a dealer for that amp, so much as I like it, I don't think it would best meet y... | |
| Wilson WP 7 and ATC SCM150ASL Well first off, the disclaimer: I peddle ATC. The larger ATC speakers, such as the 50, 100, and 150, are genuine competition for the best of the well-known high-end lines. Their 3" midrange driver is among the finest midrange drivers ever made, an... | |
| Best tube preamp w/ HT bypass under 8K. I think you can use a regular pre-amp without a pass-through if you set the volume control for exactly unity gain. If you order the unit new, the factory can probably put a little tick-mark next to the volume control knob to indicate where unity g... | |
| $1130 system for a musician, please : Hello radrum,I'm going to suggest two somewhat unorthodox systems, one planar and one high efficiency, and you can decide if one of these makes sense for you.Planar system speakers - Maggie MMG's, $550 factory-direct or $400 ballpark used. Very na... | |
| 2 - 16 ohms Bookshelf speakers? I'm afraid I don't understand your question.If you were asking for an amplifier that's able to drive speakers rated at 2 ohms and/or 16 ohms impedance, I'd understand.Or if you were asking for bookshelf speakers that had an impedance of 2 ohms, or... | |
| Speakers able to go down to 0.5 ohms? Sound Lab A-1's go down to around or slightly below 2 ohms in the very high treble, to the best of my knowlege. I used to use Strathearn ribbon drivers in homebrew speakers, and they were a .55 ohm load.Amplifiers that can drive such a load includ... |