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| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? There are a fair number of people who find the Atma-Sphere OTL's so much better than transformer-coupled amps (more transparent, better bass, more extended high end, "faster") that they are willing to find a speaker that will work well with them, ... | |
| Is it OK to use an 8 Ohm tubed amp to power 16 Ohm speakers? Modjeski's light-loading recommendation may be based entirely on implementation with his amps. I have found him to be relatively unaware, and uninterested, in what other designers are doing. Interestingly, I found the same to be true of many music... | |
| Room Acoustics Excellent willemj! The DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core comes with a measuring mic, and has a screen that displays the frequency response of the room, room modes often creating huge peaks and nulls in that response, in both the frequency and time ... | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? An amp and a speaker make a "system", no matter what two they are. They are intrinsically, interdependently-related to each other. A particular speaker prefers (or even requires) a certain "kind" of amp, a particular amp performs better with certa... | |
| What exactly is colored sound? Commercial recording engineers are endeavoring to make a "good" sounding recording, sure, but what good means to them may be very different from what an audiophile means by good. In all the studios I’ve been recorded in, the engineers have mics th... | |
| A battle between two turntable generations. Which one is the winner? The TransFi Terminator is very different than other straight trackers, it's very low mass arm wand being just one such difference. And actually, there is a technical justification for an arm having higher lateral than vertical mass, having to do w... | |
| Is it OK to use an 8 Ohm tubed amp to power 16 Ohm speakers? Roger Modjeski of Music Reference recommends using the lowest tap that gives you enough power for your speakers (almost all tube amps put out less power as impedance descends). He calls this "light loading". You can use the 8, 4, or 2 ohm tap for ... | |
| Speaker cable length with monoblock amps? Why five feet, rather than, say, four or six? C'mon man, a little common sense is called for. | |
| Speaker cable length with monoblock amps? I had Kimber make me some 1' silver cables when I had a pair of mono amps. The idea that speaker cables have to be a certain minimum length strikes me as an audiophile myth; I've never read any EE theory supporting the idea. Real short cables can ... | |
| A battle between two turntable generations. Which one is the winner? Thanks for hipping me to the TransFi, Terry. Vic just notified me mine will be ready at the end of the month. I feel like a kid waiting on Christmas! | |
| Why do turntables sound different? There is one table that sounds different from ALL others---the various incarnations of the Townshend Audio Rock. It is the only one ever made to feature damping at the front/cartridge end of the arm, rather than at it’s rear/bearing end. Though no... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection All right, I’m back.jafant, here are the major books on Dylan:- No Direction Home by Robert Shelton. Shelton wrote the rave review in The New York Times of a Dylan Greenwich Village live performance in 1961 that got everyone’s attention. A basic b... | |
| Thorend TD-125 Tonearm/Cartridge recommendations? Cartridge selection is way too much a matter of personal taste to make without hearing for ones self. For instance, I love London's, but would never recommend them to anyone else. Arms is a different matter, but you'll probably want to specify a m... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection I like the issues raised here since my posting, but left yesterday morning for an out-of-town gig from which I have just arrived home, and am beat. I’ll add some more thoughts tomorrow. Thanks everybody! | |
| What direction is VPI headed? Getting the last 2-3mm is what cartridge alignment is all about! 2-3mm off is NOT okay---that's grossly out of alignment. |