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| Gold From Heaven -- Need TT Advice and Have Qs Thanks guys. I think your collective advise is solid. | |
| Audio Research Vs115 Paradigm Sig. 8 v3. I've had a devil of a time getting reliable and timely info about the specs, but finally got through. The S8s have a 21-22 max ohm peak between 1K and 2K Hz; and a 4 ohm min. in the bass region. I've been in private contact wit... | |
| Audio Research Vs115 Thanks Jake. I think the impedance/phased angle plots are demanding as reported in Stereophile mainly because of the 2 ohm dip and general 4-5 ohm range. But other than that, the impedance is quite flat between 4 and 5 ohms across the freq. band. ... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss Thanks Jake. I think the impedance/phased angle plots are demanding as reported in Stereophile mainly because of the 2 ohm dip and 4-5 ohm range. But other than that, the impedance is quite flat between 4 and 5 ohms across the freq. band. The low ... | |
| Audio Research Corp Ref 5 SE Memorial Day Update on Ref 5SE: Have over 650 hours logged on the Ref 5, although much is idle time hours. I think the Ref 5 is probably broken in by now. It really sings. Very sweet pre-amp. Btw, a major change from an unexpected source. Just rep... | |
| Audio Research Vs115 Jake, I re-checked the net to view the bench tests for the Thiel CS2.3 speakers. What I saw in fact was bench test results for the CS2.4s, which as I said had an amazingly flat 4 ohm impedance plot from 50 or 75 Hz through the audible acoustic spe... | |
| Audio Research Vs115 Jake, out of curiosity I googled to find bench tests of the Thiel CS2.3. May have looked at the wrong site, but the test results I found showed impedance remarkably holding at a near 4 ohms almost across its entire FR spectrum. As expected the imp... | |
| Audio Research Vs115 @Jake, your results line up with the test results from Stereophile and Soundstage I posted above. Did you also have a chance to near-field mic the actual SPL outputs of the Theils. That would seem to be the ultimate test. I switched over to the 4 ... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss @ Swampwalker +1 | |
| Audio Research Vs115 Jake, what loudspeaker did you use when you tested the VS-115's FR? Also, what output taps did you use? | |
| Audio Research Corp Ref 5 SE Phil, stay all ARC. The synergy is worth it. Call Tom ASAP. Not only did his buffer increase the impedance shown of the sub woofer, his device even summed the left and right channels without shorting out the Ref 5's Mains. So, my single sub woofer... | |
| Audio Research Corp Ref 5 SE @ Phil -- could be. Search the Forum for my posts regarding a custom impedance buffer that was made for me to resolve this issue. The formula to compute combined impedance is: The product of Main 1 feed imp. x Main 2 feed imp, divided by the sum M... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss Great chart Mapman. The chart also provides insight into why a speaker may subjectively sound bright or flat (i.e., dull). The chart shows that our ears are very sensitive to midrange frequencies. So, if our audio rig emphasizes frequencies in the... | |
| Audio Research Corp Ref 5 SE I don't recall. At this point, I think the whole presentation is quite impressive. Just curious, what's the input impedance of your amp? Is your Ref 5 SE driving anything else like a sub woofer? As an fyi, most ARC line stages, incl the Ref 5, sho... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss Thanks again as usual Ralph and Al. Just want to re-post 2 links that answer in part how NF may work with tube amps driving “mountainous” impedance curve speakers. The links show bench test measurements of 2 different ARC tube amps: (a) the new RE... |