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| Powering a Passive subwoofer. The discontinued Electron Kinetics Eagle 2 has superb grip and power in the bottom end. Unfortunately there are none for sale right now, but they do come up from time to time, generally in the $400 ballpark.In the meantime, you might try wiring th... | |
| Powering my Magnepan 3.0's Augeanpoop -While the Carver amp is able to deliver enormous power short-term, it doesn't have the heat-sink area necessary to deliver high output long-term, so it's going into thermal shut-down. At least that's my guess.I peddle the InnerSound am... | |
| Best Speakers Compatable with System Hello Larry,You have some nice gear there. There's a Thor pre-amp and some Magnan cabling in my system as well...Okay, I have two suggestions - one simple; and one complex and somewhat self-serving (hey, I'm a dealer - that's what the fin on my ba... | |
| Jolida reliability? Anyone with comments? I'm a JoLida dealer. To this date only one of my customers has had a problem - a bad solder joint on an input jack. JoLida quickly took care of the problem.I've sold lots more expensive gear that had a much worse in-the-field track record. And, ac... | |
| Electrostatic Speakers Bsevans -The problem that a solid-state amplifier has driving the Sound Labs is related to the high impedance in the bass.You see, the Sound Labs present a ballpark 40 ohm load in the deep bass, decreasing to around 6 ohms at 500 Hz, then going ba... | |
| Beveridge Model 2sw Electrostatic Yes, Harlold Beveridge's systems were and still are magical. I got to hear a pair for the first time at CES 2002. They could have used a bigger amp, but boy they sounded sweet. I spent some time talking with his son Rick about the prospect of one ... | |
| Subs without power amps Note that many subs rely on equalization to get deep bass in a small box, and as a result dynamic contrast and transient response often suffer.If you're looking for superb transient response and are willing to live with a fairly large enclosure, t... | |
| Quad 989's I would estimate that you can get ballpark 100 dB on peaks at the listening position with the 989 and a suitable amplifier. But that's driving the speaker pretty hard.If you treat the backwave (either with diffusion or absorption depending on your... | |
| Best high current SS Mono amps Hello Yada,I'm a dealer for several of the amps mentioned here (Parasound JC-1's, InnerSound, Wolcott) as well as a few not mentioned here (Clayton, Atma-Sphere) that also work very well with electrostats. My experience is mostly with Sound Labs s... | |
| What's My Problem? Pat -I'm not familiar enough with your speakers for this to be anything more than speculation, but here goes...There's a nasty little thing that happens to most drivers called "compression". And, different drivers introduce different amounts of co... | |
| And what do Maggies sound like near a wall...... Umn - The first sidewall reflection will have to be treated (diffused or absorbed), but that six feet of open space avaiable behind the MG-12's makes me optimistic. I have used dipoles fairly close to side walls (6" or so) with good results. Sure ... | |
| Speakers that have holographic imaging on vocals.. Other speakers that excel at imaging include the Meridian M-2 and Snell Acoustics Type A (both dating from the early 80's); the Quad 63 (and presumably its successors, the 988 and 989); InnerSound electrostats and metal-frame Sound Labs; single-di... | |
| And what do Maggies sound like near a wall...... Umn -If I understand you correctly, you have a location for 14" wide speakers 6 feet in front of the wall. Hmmm. Any chance you could streeeetch that 14" out to 17", and shoehorn in a couple of MG-12's? If not, then as you probably suspect it's ha... | |
| And what do Maggies sound like near a wall...... The out-of-phase backwave will be reinforced by the nearby back wall, and so will cancel out the front wave more effectively than normal. Bass will be weak. The midrange will be colored by the early reflections off the back wall, and imaging (part... | |
| I need advice/opinions for a nice bedroom system System 1: DVD player as transport, Birdland DAC w/volume control, pair ATC SCM-10 active speakers. No tubes here, sorry! System 2: JoLida JD-100 CD Player, JoLida JD-302B tube integrated amp, Buggtussel Cingulate speakers. Substitute JD-1000A inte... |