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| Vandersteen question. Having owned the 2ce's, 2ce signatures and now the model 3A signatures, if you want the best sound for your money(in the vandersteen line), go with the 2ce signatures. They are considerably better than the 2ce's for a touch more money. The creek w... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Man, I'd like to see Richard Vandersteen and Joseph Audio get in the ring! It's what makes this "Hobby" so great. My design is better than your design. I believe Vandersteen, Jim Thiel and a few others would debate his points. I've owned a lot of ... | |
| Circuit Breaker for Dedicated Lines You can use any breaker that will fit in your slot in your panel for 120VAC (single breaker.) Most panels will require the same make, however, sometimes another make will fit. Breakers are pretty much breakers. Since the wire is protected by the b... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Unsound---they lied! It HAS to be a first order filter period. The phase shift created by a 24 db slope would be tuff to fix. Read Richard Hardesty's issue #3 of the Audioperfectionist. You might not like his recommendations but his science is cor... | |
| Help Interconnect Cable Try the Tara Labs Air 1 or the ISM The 3 or ISM The 2. These are very smooth cables and do not sacrifice detail. The are very neutral sounding with great isolation from noise. Probably one of the most overlooked cables around. Sumiko uses Tara in ... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Well, I'm going to take one last technical stab at this. What we are talking about is the time that elapses between the arrival of the electrical signal at the input of the driver and when the acoustical signal leaves the driver. This will vary de... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? I think we could discuss this subject for a long while and get very technical. I feel that anything that helps preserve the waveform is beneficial. TWL is right about the waveform. You want it all to arrive at the same time. You can go into a cham... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? I may be wrong but I don't believe that Karl's statement is correct. Highs come at you quicker where lows are much slower. A flat diaphragm is not timed aligned by looking at its impulse response and other factors. The frequencies are reproduced a... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Just because a speaker system has a sloping baffle does not mean it is time aligned. There are a few manufacturers who would like for you to think there speakers are time aligned. This has been noted in Stereophile's reviews of speakers from time ... | |
| Vandersteen 3ASigs amp? In answer to several questions, I compared a single DNA 1 Deluxe to a single DNA .5 Deluxe. Both had Cardas speaker posts and the usual internal upgrades of the deluxe package. The only difference in the two amps was the 1 had Cardas input RCA's a... | |
| Vandersteen 3ASigs amp? I will chime in with the Mccormack. I use a pair of DNA .5's in a vertical biamp with my 3A Sigs. Awfully good sound. After I added a pair of 2WQ's, I don't see how it can get any better. I honestly didn't get as good of high frequency purity with... | |
| Vandersteen 3ASigs amp? According to a past Stereophile article, he uses McCormack. When I met him in person a while back, he was using Quicksilvers with his own system. Of course, I sure this is all subject to change. | |
| What gear do Audio manufacturers use at home? When I met Richard Vandersteen a few months back, he indicated that he used his own speakers(whatever he had on hand---spares) and Quick Silver tube amps. He had no comment after that! He certainly wouldn't comment on speaker wire or interconnects... | |
| Speaker Cable for Vandy 3A Sigs - Suggestions I have the same set up and use Tara Lab Master generation II speaker cables. They are smooth and detailed. I prefered these to a lot of other more expensive cables. They do have a slight, and I do mean slight, leaness in the upper mids but, to me,... | |
| Cable directionality Audioengr- I appreciate your information and trust me, I will get a handle on the "Why." I think we have been engineers for about the same length of time. I graduated a ME in 1975. I didn't learn much about electricity in school and have been in i... |