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| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Kapa started an OP and asked for comments about this article. http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html The author says "[t]he BAS test I linked earlier mentions as an aside that the SACD version of a recording can sound substantially better ... | |
| 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense Excellent article. I understand that Acoustic Sounds sells high quality redbook CD. As the author said, the biggest quality issue is RECORDING, ENGINNERING AND MASTERING. Most of the rest is voodoo. Thanks KAPA. I'll stick with my CDP for now and ... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Unsound, I don't think that's quite the way it works. As Al and Ralph Karsten have explained, SS amps are constant voltage sources -- Voltage Paradigm amps. As impedance increases, a SS amp - being a constant voltage source and typically ultra low... | |
| VPI Traveler String.... I wonder if existing Classic tables can be upgraded to take the new circuit configuration? | |
| Best Audio Electronics for Paradigm S8v3 Speakers Look, I'm not saying I'm a SS amp expert, but think whatever amp you use, it should be SS. Don't know what your budget is, but there's some good deals on Ayre amps. Ayre amps have very good rep. | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Thanks Al. I got lazy and wrote too quickly. Of course you're 100% correct. The exercise was an attempt to match the amp's 4 ohm tap configuration with the speaker's low end terminals which are dedicated to the woofers and midrange. And to match t... | |
| Best Audio Electronics for Paradigm S8v3 Speakers Cdente -- what is the VB1 device?? What does it do? | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Final report: I played around with pretty much every variation and permutation of the amp taps and speaker terminals I could think up. I just couldn't find an overall better combo that bested using the amp's 8 ohm taps on both the LT and UT termin... | |
| How do I break in a tube amplifier? Wolf ..., ARC told me the same about waiting 5 minutes between a shut off and restart. But you asked a good question about where one should wait during the 5 minute cool off period. I was told that I should wait in another room and that I must NOT... | |
| Anti-skating on VPI arm? Trial and error for me. I'm not even sure if I have too much, too little or just the right amount of AS. I'm using the Goldilocks method. When I send my cartridge to either Peter Ledermann or Andy Chong (sp?) for a stylus check, I'll ask if the st... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Fla, I get your question, but that's what ARC told me. I don't know why. In any case, last night, I switched everything around. I'm using the zero ohm tap for both UT and LT (negative) terminals and separately wiring the 4 ohm hot lead to the LT (... | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Back again. Tom Tutay rigged up a set of temporary speakers cables to let me use all 3 taps of my amp. As a reminder, my speakers can be bi-wired/bi-amped. I believe the lower terminals (LT) feed the woofers/mid range. The upper terminals (UT) fee... | |
| New KT150 tubes? To ARC tube amp owners, this is Kalvin Dahl's response:"Until engineering tests the KT150s I would not use them in the Ref 150." I think it's a fair inference that Kal's advice covers all ARC tube amps. Patience, patience. | |
| New KT150 tubes? Just sent off another e mail to Kal at ARC about the KT-150. I'll post his response when he comes back to me. | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Right questions Mapman, but wrong focus. I surmise that most speakers are voiced to be driven by SS amps. If my surmise is valid, the bias is that one should buy speakers first and then match the best SS amp, unless the speaker can do double duty.... |