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| The very best Sibelius recordings in analog It's been years since I've heard them, but I liked Sir Thomas Beecham's Sibelius recordings on EMI. I'm speaking in terms of music, not sound. But that area of Classical is not my forte, so my opinion is not of much worth! | |
| A Different Solution for Cables No I haven't sabai. But I will be soon, trying both Kimber Hero and Mogami Gold Studio balanced/XLR cables with both my main amp and speakers, and my subs. The XLR jacks make combining balanced cables a snap! | |
| Suggestions for a passive line-level high-pass crossover? sfall, I complete understand what you’re saying (except for one matter, that of you using a two channel power amp on each of your speakers, without a line-level xover), but you aren’t getting what I’m saying. First of all, the op stated he was loo... | |
| Tympani 1A's and AMPLIFICATION. Satie over at the Planar Speaker Asylum has a pair Tympani T-IV’s which he bi-amps, using a Crown 2000wpc amp on the T-IV bass panels! Magnepans recommended T-IV bi-amp x/o is non-symmetrical, low-pass 18dB/octave at 250Hz and high pass 6dB/octave... | |
| Suggestions for active crossover setup please. The First Watt B4 provides an unbelievable range of settings: 6-12-18-24dB/octave (1st-2nd-3rd-4th order) filters at 25Hz to 3200Hz in 25Hz increments! And it is built with all discrete parts, no Opamps or IC's. It is about to be discontinued, so ... | |
| A Different Solution for Cables Beside getting a combination of the best characteristics of each cable, you are also getting the worst of each! | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? Eminent Technology makes a little monitor-sized version of their magnetic-planar/dynamic woofer hybrid, the LFT-16a. Like all things from the mind of Bruce Thigpen, under-owned and appreciated. | |
| Tympani 1A's and AMPLIFICATION. The more power the better! The T-1’s were often bi-amped in the 70’s, with a high-powered amp for the two bass panels, and a moderate one for the m/t panel. There is a lot of discussion on this topic on the Planar Speaker Asylum and MUG (Magnepan ... | |
| Suggestions for a passive line-level high-pass crossover? The lucky owners of Vandersteen 7’s, for one. That speaker comes with a powered (via a solid state amp) subwoofer, and many 7 owners use a tube power amp for the upper drivers. People have done that successfully for decades, with speakers like the... | |
| Has anyone had experiences good or bad with speaker isolation or isolation in general ? Long ago I read that a spring isolation system should not be employed with a turntable already having a spring-type suspension, such as the original VPI HW-19, the Linn Sondek, the Oracle, Thorens, and all the other floating-suspension tables, all... | |
| Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned?? One real good reason for getting the .6 version of any of the MG series Maggies is that their crossovers allow them to be bi-amped; the crossovers in the .7 versions do not. | |
| Suggestions for a passive line-level high-pass crossover? Bi-amping vertically (rather than horizontally) does not negate the need for a x/o to accomplish. Neither of the two amps in a bi-amped system knows whether it is being used vertically or horizontally (other than in the sense of how the amp and sp... | |
| Recording Studio sound Vs. Audiophile system lowrider---Tracking and mixing engineers (typically two separate individuals in big-time recording) often taped tissue paper over the tweeters of the Yamahas, to tame the speaker's hot tweeter. Yamaha took notice, and offered a version of the NS-1... | |
| Suggestions for a passive line-level high-pass crossover? A passive high-pass filter is commonly accomplished via the insertion of a single capacitor on the input jacks of the main speaker’s power amp, the value of the capacitor determined by: 1- The desired x/o frequency; 2- The input impedance of the p... | |
| Recording Studio sound Vs. Audiophile system I just watched a video on Michael Fremer’s Alanog Planet website in which he visits a couple of mastering studios. Sterling Sound in NYC is one of them, and in their monitoring system is a pair of Pass amps and Rythmik subwoofers, plus a pair of f... |