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| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system The Rythmik A370 plate amp (the amp in the OB/Dipole Sub) is no ordinary amp. It is a well designed 370 watt class A/B analog amp, controlling the dual 12" woofers in a servo-feedback circuit. The front-to-back cancellation inherent in dipoles is ... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Thanks for the info and correction clio. 5000 volts! Beware, modifiers!! I bought a pair of LFT-4’s as an alternative to my Quad ESL’s, and it CAN be crossed-over to at 100Hz (or lower) from a sub, being a pure panel / no cone woofer design. I kno... | |
| Major artists that don't have an epic song A lot of Pop groups (as opposed to Rock bands), like The Rubinoos, The Ramones, ABBA, and The Flamin' Groovies. Also true American-style Rock 'n' Roll bands (as opposed to Rock bands) like Rockpile, Los Lobos, NRBQ, and The Dwight Twilley Band. | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. n80, is the label lime green? 1969 is only one year removed from the album's 1968 release, which had the old "rainbow" Capitol label. What leads you to believe your copy is a "repress"? I'm not sure the album sold enough in a year to need a second... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Oops, left out Atma-Sphere! By the way, Modjeski is now making OTL amps himself, including those in his direct-drive ESL loudspeaker. No output transformer in the amp, no input transformer in the speaker! | |
| which Audio Research pre-amp? I hear ya Ralph. Bill Johnson deserves a lot of credit for getting hi-fi moving in the right direction (designing and building for dynamic music reproduction, not for purely static bench test stats), but ARC products are not necessarily the "best"... | |
| Do you have a favorite vacuum tube? @2psyop (and anyone else interested in tubes), if you haven’t seen them already, watch the You Tube videos of Roger Modjeski’s talks at the Burning Amp Festival (from a number of different recent years), in which he goes into detail about tube des... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system The low price of the LFT-8b works against it in the mind of audiophiles who equate price with quality and performance. But it’s more than just that; far more people own Magnepan MG1.7’s than LFT-8b’s (approximately the same price after Mye and Sou... | |
| Clipping triode or ultralinear Not all triode (or ultralinear) amps clip the same. It is the bi-product of clipping---high levels of ultrasonic garbage---that burns up tweeters. Different amps produce different amounts of that garbage when clipping, irrespective of class of ope... | |
| Favorite Dylan? I sure am, jafant. I've been dying to hear the NY versions of some of the song's since I first learned of those unreleased recordings. | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? Good post Bill (whart). Having begrudgingly lived through the dark days of the 1990’s, when the availability of new music on LP was effectively nill, for me the greatest benefit of the LP revival is the resurgence in new music and recordings being... | |
| balanced vs. unbalanced sound quality My comment about Keith Johnson’s statement wasn’t intended to endorse it, but rather to clarify it (correctly, I hope). I imagine there are as many ways to build a balanced circuit as there are design engineers. EAR-Yoshino’s Tim de Paravicini cho... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? My U.S. copy of the Rockpile album does too, reubent. The last entry, of Los Angeles Dec. 13-15, is the shows I was at. It wasn't really in Los Angeles proper, but over the Hollywood Hills in the center of the San Fernando Valley, on Sherman Way i... | |
| Thoughts on Big Star I saw a great documentary on Big Star a couple of years ago, should be easy to find somewhere. There are quite a few Pop groups who are cult legends, never achieving much commercial success, but inspiring a lot of members of groups/bands who did. ... | |
| Problem related to Push-Pull or EL34? The obvious question is, what speaker is the amp hooked up to? All amp/speaker combinations are "systems", the sound of each dependent on the other. Why is it assumed it is the amp that is boomy, rather than the result of the amp/speaker interaction? |