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| Matching an amp to speakers for beginners? Hi Petequad,Thanks for taking the time to play twenty questions! Okay, it looks to me like your highest loudspeaker priorities are (more or less in order): Clarity and nuance; presentation reminiscent of a good jazz club; freedom from boxiness &am... | |
| Classe DR-25 worth buying? I have a DR-3, which I think is a predecessor of the DR-25. The amp has excellent clarity and liveliness. To find is sonic competition, among amplifiers I'm familiar with I'd have to step into at least the four grand retail ballpark (and maybe mor... | |
| Matching an amp to speakers for beginners? Hello Petequad,My suggestion would be that you make your speaker selection first, as that's the most important choice, and will dictate the direction of your amplifier choice. Once you've chosen speakers, you'll know how much power you need, and w... | |
| Ribbon tweeters/speakers recommendations Please Ribbon or planar magnetic high frequency drivers show up in models from Newform Research, VMPS, Bohlender-Graebener, Selah Audio, Soundline Audio, Genesis, Eminent Technology, Ambience, Jupiter Audio, and Magnepan. I'm sure there are others, but t... | |
| Shahinian Obelisk loudspeakers Personally, I think $1,000 is a high price for a nineteen year old pair of Obelisks, unless their condition is really superb. | |
| Time alignment, important? long Semi,I'm certainly no expert here, but will offer my $.02 worth. Hopefully Roy Johnson of Green Mountain Audio will drop in on us.First, assuming constant temperature and pressure, the speed of sound is the same regardless of the frequency being r... | |
| "Best" amp/pre-amp for Joseph Audio Rm7 Sig MkII What amplifiers has Jeff Joseph shown with? His rooms at CES and other trade shows are consistently praised as being among the best-sounding, and that doesn't happen without good system synergy. Just a thought. | |
| "3 Dimensional Sound"? I have a very hastily-produced recording that clearly illustrates height information. On some cuts the vocalist's microphone is physically set too high, causing his voice to sound like it's coming from down near the floor. On some it's too low, so... | |
| 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... |