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| What are you streaming tonight? @uberwaltz and @reubent, I got to see Robben live many times when he was living in San Jose in the early 70’s. He and his brothers (Pat on drums, Mark on mouth harp) had moved down from upstate California, and were living in a house right by the c... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Yow, things are warming up around here ;-) . I like opinionated people, it requires and reveals passion. That’s true even if I see things differently; no two people agree on everything, and everyone develops their own priorities and tastes in musi... | |
| Best places to find vinyl A long time ago (starting in late 1976), when Goldmine Record Collectors Magazine was a huge, monthly print publication, I began buying from sellers of rare and collectable LP’s. And remember, the LP was at that time the main format (almost the on... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @krelldreams, you should definitely try your Dynaco ST70 with the MG1.7, just to see if that gives you enough power. The RM-10 is a far better amp than the ST70, but their power output is about the same (right Roger?). But remember, a 35 watt tube... | |
| OTL Tube Amps and Full Range Electrostatic Speakers Exactly roberjerman, and the RM-200’s low output impedance is a bonus with the impedance swing many ESL’s present to an amp. It is also very stable into highly-capacitive load of most (all?) ESL's. A mighty fine amp, made specifically for difficul... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Roger, funny you mention the Fulton J, as that was what I replaced my Tympanis with! After having lived with the T-I’s for a year, in ’74 I heard the Model J at John Garland Audio in San Jose, powered by Fulton’s own mono tube amps (a modified Dyn... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @ramtubes, Roger I happened to make my first visit to a new hi-fi shop just opening in Livermore, CA in 1973, Audio Arts. It was a 1-man shop, that man being Walter Davies, now the maker of the great Last Record Care products. And as luck would ha... | |
| Does impedance of a speaker change when one bi-amps? There are companies offering DIY loudpseaker kits, the drivers and speaker-level passive x/o parts, along with required enclosure (or OB baffle) specs, provided. You make the enclosure (or buy one with the specified internal volume; Parts Express ... | |
| Anyone used these audio ceramic slow blow fuses from Littlefuse? @celander, you greatly underestimate Roger Modjeski (ramtubes). He uses the parts he finds necessary to achieve superior performance and sound. There is no contradiction between using "improved output transformers" (of his own design) and "High qu... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD And wolf, our turntables can play CD's ;-) . For those of us with considerable music libraries in both formats, it's not an either/or proposition; you gotta have both. For those just starting out, there is, as many have said here, a learning curve... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @krelldreams, though you asked Roger for a recommendation of a low-powered tube amp for use with Maggies, I hope he doesn’t mind if I chime in on the question. As a long-time Maggie owner (my first bought in 1973, the original Tympani T-I; I now o... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier @roberjerman, Music Reference's Roger Modjeski has thoroughly investigated the Futterman, and thinks highly of it. He has confirmed the amp's low output impedance, and other superior operating characteristics. The only negative I have heard about ... | |
| Does impedance of a speaker change when one bi-amps? The current .7 series Maggies have series crossovers, and are therefore not candidates for bi-amping. The .6 and earlier have parallel crossovers, and can be bi-amped. An electronic x/o is used in place of the external one supplied by Magnepan wit... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier @unreceivedogma---OTL’s (primarily and most-famously the Futtermans) came to be considered a good choice for use with the original Quad, primarily because an OTL likes to operate into a high impedance load, and the Quad was/is nominally 16 ohms. T... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @slaw---Yup, I watched the whole season of Cadillac Records, and was surprised it wasn't renewed for a second one. You can sure tell Martin Scorsese was involved, can't ya?! It really captures the New York attitude and energy, and the personality ... |