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| rushton Hey Pops ... you tipped your hat to Bill Conrad of Conrad-Johnson fame. Not even an honorable mention for his partner Howard Johnson, the inventor of the ice cream cone.:) | |
| Something doesn't seem right about this... Williwonka ... I have no idea if this is good, bad or neutral, but here's the specs on my Kimber cables:DUT: 8PR 2.5m bare wire ends.(Cp) parallel capacitance: 742.0 pF @ 20 kHz (Ls) series inductance: 0.459 µH @ 20 kHz (Rdc) dc loop resistance: 0... | |
| Something doesn't seem right about this... Williewonka ... is there an amp that "likes" high capacitance speaker cables. | |
| Attn: Ayre v-5xe owners Bjesien ... a tad curious. To what extent is a manufacturer allowed to control retail pricing? For some reason, way back when, I thought that price fixing was against the law. For some reason, I thought a manufacturer could assign dealer territori... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? Al, can I assume, therefore, if one leaves their amp on unattended for even a short period of time, they could learn upon resuming their listening session that not only does their amp not work, they may be minus one or two speakers as well?? Al, t... | |
| When does speaker distortion become audible? Thanks for the response Kijanki. Smiling a little after reading the quote from Robert Lee of Acoustic Zen. You may find the bench test results -- particularly those relating to distortion at 100 db SPL -- for an earlier version (v2) of my speakers... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? George, what you say sounds reasonable, but I am not EE savvy. I can barely tell the difference between the front and back of the amp. :( Further, any mods to the amp's circuits will adversely affect its resale value.My linestage and amp have a 12... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? Hopefully Ralph (Atmasphere) or Gary (Hifigeek) will weigh in. My practice, FWIW, is that I will leave my amp on unattended for up to 4 or 5 hours -- never if I am out-of-town. Seem to recall that it's a bad practice to shut a tube amp off and the... | |
| Price Increases Bigkidz, much of what you just wrote makes a lot of sense. I seem to recall reading an article authored by either Steven Stone or one of his colleagues (Robert Skoff?) that advanced the same points about the relationship of "hard costs" versus MSR... | |
| Advise on this speaker list Dazler, ... normally I don't recommend gear, especially speakers. Too darn subjective and controversial a topic. In this case I'll make an exception because you listed PSB as a possible speaker choice. I suggest that you add Paradigm Signature spe... | |
| The quest Kinda agree with Charles ... for now. But I am receptive to what Steve says too. If computer hi rez becomes more user friendly for oldies like me, I might dip a toe in. Right now, too many acronyms, formats and techno-babble. I'm waiting. | |
| The Death of Tubes? I wonder if it is possible to design and manufacture florescent audio tubes. | |
| When does speaker distortion become audible? Hi Kijanki, please put a face on the point you made about speaker distortion. IOW, ... is speaker distortion measured in percentages?? What are considered respectable distortion stats as a function of frequency? To what extent is it fair to assume... | |
| rushton Ditto re all of the above. Please add William Zane Johnson, Audio Research Corporation.Happy Holidays. May the coming New Year find all of us in good health and good cheer, on a sailboat yacht, sailing the West Coast and the South Pacific with Nic... | |
| Price Increases And as I mentioned, so does the impact of f/x to the extent that components are imported and the US dollar weakens as compared to the export country's currency. The f/x rates between the US dollar and the Canadian dollar is just one example. Also ... |