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| Autoformers, The Benefits in matching amp to speaker Damn, this is great! For those in the San Francisco Bay Area, Roger Modjeski (RAM Tubes, Music Reference) teaches a course in amplifier design at The Berkeley Hi Fi School. You can build your own amp in the class, any kind you want. My home town i... | |
| Solidsteel Racks I have the old Model 44 Solid Steel rack, which was later renamed the 5.4. Those were the Solid Steel racks, long-ago discontinued, with shelves that each sat on three aluminum cones, the tips of which sat in little wells in the cross-members of t... | |
| MAC Autoformers? The Eminent Technology LFT-8b, while employing magnetic-planar drivers as do Magneplanars, is rated as 8 ohms by it’s designer, Bruce Thigpen. While Maggies’ impedances are solidly in the 3-4 ohm range, the ET LFT driver is an almost purely resist... | |
| Magnepan 3.6 or 3.7 Well, if you want to bi-amp, go for the 3.6, which has a parallel x/o. The 3.7 has a series x/o, bi-amping not possible without surgery.Another consideration is the possible delamination of the conductive wires on the Mylar diaphragms of all 3.6's... | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" Geoffrey Owen uses rubies as the bearings in his fabulous Helius Silver-Ruby Omega arm (the arm Tim de Paravicini recommends for use with his EAR Disc Master turntable), and silica nitride as a more shatter-resistant alternative. Extremely hard an... | |
| Turntable isolation Owners of the HW-19 VPI's also use the SIMS Navcom Silencers in place of the stock springs, but they are no longer in production. However, Navcom products are still being made for other purposes, particularly firearms. Others use roller bearings (... | |
| Talk but not walk? @theaudiotweak, how can you say such a thing? Why, he’s just posting here to share his enthusiasm for the "hobby". It’s all about having fun!!! Are you suggesting he’s disingenuous?Get on board, brother---disassemble your electronics and stick lit... | |
| Autoformer vs Speaker impedance Curve How fortunate are we in having two of the very best hi-fi amplifier designers/engineers working today (Ralph Karsten of Atma-Sphere and Roger Modjeski of Music Reference) sharing their knowledge with us here? That products of the quality they offe... | |
| narrow and wide baffles and imaging Who remembers the Spica Angelus loudspeaker? | |
| Talk but not walk? @glupson, audiopoint was referring to my August 27th, 3:01 PM post on this page. | |
| Talk but not walk? Referring to hi-fi as a hobby offends me. Music is sacred (well, some of it ;-), and to call the efforts taken to maximize it’s reproduction a hobby tends to trivialize our greatest art form. Hi-fi is merely a means to an end; it is of importance ... | |
| Magnepan 30.7s visit Jacksonville Hey Josh, nice to see you here on AudiogoN! For those not into planars, Josh is a leading contributor on the Planar Speaker Asylum site, and is very knowledgeable about Magneplanars---Eric. | |
| Talk but not walk? Right you are, analogluvr, But there’s no money to be made off one such as Kosst. He who preaches walking in truth wants following, and to his tune (pun not intentional, but.....) only. That comes at a price, of course. | |
| Is It Possible? I bought a pair of the original Magneplanar Tympani-I’s in ’72, then sold them in ’74 and bought Fulton Model J’s. Though the Fulton’s were more transparent (those RTR ESL tweeters were killer!) and had the bottom octave missing in the Tympani’s, ... | |
| Magnepan 30.7s visit Jacksonville Excellent! I was at the first stop on the tour (in Portland, Oregon), which was unfortunately sabotaged by a bad room and source material. I’m an owner of the 80’s version of the 30.7, the Tympani-IVa’s, and can’t wait to hear the new model in a b... |