bdp24
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| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers I was surprised when I learned that some choose their power amp first, then look for a speaker it can drive well. I thought the notion that speakers, being transducers, vary much more in sound that do amps was universally agreed upon, and should t... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? All good comments---everything matters! Reproduced music still, after all this time and effort, sounds very different from live, and undoubtedly will for the remainder of even the youngest of Audiogoners lives. But it can already sound close enoug... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? Just an opinion here, on the subject of the ability of any given component to provide an emotional connection to the music it is reproducing. That concept implies that that ability is separate from sound itself, that the sound of music alone does ... | |
| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers Excellent additional information from the always illuminating Ralph Karsten! Thanks as always. Modjeski designs his transformers and has them built to his specs (even winding them personally, for those willing to pay him to do so). Perhaps he does... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters Speaking of drivers, isn't the work done in that field by one of David Wilsons major competitors, Richard Vandersteen, impressive? Wilson drivers are merely modified versions of already available models by a couple of leading manufactures; Richard... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? Though Art Dudley disagrees with me, my number one priority is lifelike vocal and instrumental timbre---lack of what J. Gordon Holt called "vowel colorations". Next up is immediacy and presence---the illusion of living, breathing humans singing an... | |
| Anticables ebm---$600 for a pair of interconnects "cheap"? Must be nice! | |
| Loudon I love Loudons writing and recordings, but have never seen him live. I better do so soon, before he too dies. | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 Just to be as clear as possible, I have no problem with companies designing, making, and selling cost-no-object products, or with those who can afford and buy them. You go, boy! I just don’t like to see them reviewed as if they are real-world prod... | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 My last post has been percolating in my mind since I made it. I was uncomfortable with it’s tone, and knew it didn’t express what I was trying to. But as I was watching A Few Good Men on TV, my thoughts on the subject of hi-fi pricing crystalized.... | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 I don't have a problem with an amplifier company offering a $99,000 amp, or a loudspeaker company offering a $685,000 speaker. What I don't like is a hi-fi mag reviewing them as if they're a product just like any other, only "somewhat" more expens... | |
| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers Excellent clarification from Al, with more specifics. No surprise there! Timbre77, you missed the important qualifying adjective of the amplifier scenario I described---"tube". As Al stated, while the power solid state amps create increases with d... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? Chris (ct0517), a man sharing my point of view, both figuratively and literally! I too prefer to look up at the stage, and find many, many loudspeakers to produce too low an image---as you said, a balcony perspective. | |
| RCA or XLR iInput Shorting Plugs or Pins Those Cardas RCA jack covers are just cosmetic---if the plugs aren’t shorting, they do nothing except keep dust off the RCA’s. Why does Cardas (and others) offer such a useless, ineffective product, if not to simply make money off vain, insecure a... | |
| Rythmik subwoofers? Yup yogiboy, it sure will. But it will provide only one slope---2nd order, 12dB/octave. And only two x/o frequencies, one at each switch position. You’ll need to specify those frequencies when you order the x/o from HSU. I doubt you can beat it fo... |