bdgregory
Responses from bdgregory
| 1st Album you Ever Owned? Chicago - “CTA”. Still one of my favorites. | |
| AMC 2100 or Emotiva UPA-200 sorry to hear about your job loss . . . Hope you land on your feet.as for amp selection, I know nothing about Emotiva, but have owned a few AMC amps as well as many different B&K amp, including the st1400.It was some time ago but I recall bein... | |
| Crown xls 1000 I have one. I’m using it to drive pa speakers in my PA system (I have a jam/performance space buddies and I use to jam). It sounds great and is ballsy. I also have a xls 1500 I use to drive totem sttafs in my family room tv rig. It’s a a bit grai... | |
| How deadly is transformer hummm... Is it a mechanical hum (ie, xformer against chassis) or electronic hum coming from speakers? The former may be as simple as mounting screws needing tightening. | |
| Favorite song to demo or test drive speakers? Jan Hammer - "Darkness/Earth in Search of a Sun", and the whole album “First Seven Days” | |
| Revox B77 Reel to Reel repair Music technology in NVa is great. Just off the beltway. http://www.musictechnology.com/ | |
| Thoughts about buying a Bedini 100 I had a Bedini 100/100 and wish I still did. While you would never mistake it for a tube amp, it’s a great sounding solid state amp with the tightest bass you’ll ever hear. | |
| Best debut album Boz Scaggs. (Self titled) | |
| I am restoring a Stromberg AU-42 - 6L6G question You should post this on The audioasylum tube diy forum. You’ll get multiple authoritative responses quickly there.that said, if this is the cathode bias bypass cap, different values will materially affect tone. If it were me, I would not worry abo... | |
| Favorite Lyricists? Robbie Robertson , Neil Young. | |
| Albums that you listen to straight through / start to finish whenever you put them on! All of them, except for double lp's where I don't have enough time to finish. | |
| What have you found to be a good classic Jazz online station? I like iHeart Radio Vinyl Jazz. | |
| Cool running amplifier ok, there's no DSP, just crossover and bridging modes. I had already bypassed all of that.One thing I did do is tune the gain controls (which I originally assumed were attenuaters) which helped a little. I'm very, pleasantly surprised by this litt... | |
| Cool running amplifier Thanks @atmasphere . I'll check it out. | |
| Cool running amplifier For grins I decided to try a Crown XLS1500 that I have (it was powering pro/pa speakers in my jam studio). It's a class d 300 watts at 8 ohms. I didn't think it would fit through the cabinet door because it's 19" wide, but I managed to squeeze it ... |