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| 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... | |
| Recording Studio sound Vs. Audiophile system Auratones and Yamaha NS10's were in the control/monitoring room of just about every studio I recorded at in L.A. during the 80's and 90's. Some of them also had large Altec "monitors" (Voice Of The Theater) or other 15" woofer/compression horn sys... |