bishop148
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| Will I benefit from a subwoofer with 20Hz speakers? IMHO don't waste your money. There is very little musical content in that octave 20-40Hz and in my experience having too much bass becomes annoying after a while. | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? There was some talk of plasma speakers, haven't heard anything since. The obvious advantage is almost no mass, hence no mechanical resonance and instantaneous response. Now that would be a breakthrough in design. | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) I think most AB amps operate in class A mode up to roughly 1/10th of their full power output. Which is to say 10dB less than peak output. So for most listening you hear only class A, and save money on your power bill. | |
| Magnepan and Bob Carver Raven amps I apologize for being off topic. But how old is Bob Carver? He seems to have been around forever. | |
| Does carpet deaden the sound too much? I've heard that an egg shaped room has perfect acoustics. Mind you won't be able to walk around, but you will have great sound. | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? I have an old Phase Linear 400 power amp. I can and have ran that directly from my CD player to my amp bypassing the pre-amp. Of course having volume controls on your power amp is a must. A pre-amp gives tone controls and a master on/off switch,... | |
| Sound Yes, it is mostly about ego gratification and that makes it all worthwhile! | |
| Paypal Changes for 2022 If the privately owned Fed can generate trillions out of nothing and every dollar created as an IOU. All to be repaid by following generations, why pay taxes? | |
| How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers? Horn speakers have small diaphragms, working in a powerful magnetic field and acoustically loaded, which producers high efficiency and low distortion. Downside is that the waveguide creates coloration. My JBL 1400's are the least colored of any... | |
| How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers? The advantage IMO of horn loaded speakers is their efficiency. The disadvantage is coloration, they usually have a characteristic horn sound, like its coming from a tube, which it is. JBL have done a pretty good job of taming horn speakers, wit... | |
| Efficient speaker: Zu, Tekton, Volti, Klipsch, Fleetwood? JBL K2 9900 are what you want. 93 dB efficiency, +/- 1 db from 70 - 20kHz, less than 1% distortion at 96db across the audible sound spectrum and 500 watt power handling. | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? When you want to turn the volume up. | |
| Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies? Save your money, buy something like an Emotiva power amp. Why? The designer of Phase Linear amps Bob Carver did something controversial many years ago. He modified his inexpensive Phase Linear Amp to sound as good in blind A-B testing as amps cos... | |
| Horn speakers are really bright? I have JBL 1400 Array's with a horn loaded compression midrange and super tweeter. They certainly are not "bright", the sound overal is mellow. It depends how well a speaker type is implemented, some horn type compression drivers are definitey ... | |
| What song have you played the most? Supertramp has been overlooked till now. As so they should, great group. Crime of the Century, Even in the quietist moments and School are standouts. |