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| Reading Spec Sheets Kclone,you can get some hints from various aspects but in the end you will have to do some math to determine whether or not the power amp is capable of high(er) current.As Jmcgrogan2 stated one aspect is sheer weight of the amp. This assumes that ... | |
| Class A Watts 06-17-13: PhdBombaywalla, you know what is, watt for watt tube amps appear to have more power and it could be due to the fact that tube amps clip more softly. Are you buying this?Phd (Threads | Answers | This Thread)Phd, I'm struggling to. SS amps... | |
| Class A Watts 06-16-13: CsontosHowever, there are A/B amps with no switching distortion and much quicker than lots of class A amps....Csontos, such an amplifier is, then, not class-ABl it's a class-A amp with some very low off-state bias current. I believe this... | |
| Do amps have a sweet spot? I must be either reading this wrong or missing something.I thought increasing the voltage across a speaker's input will increase its output in SPL based on the speaker's sensitivity. I don't see how that's related to the voltage source (the amp) i... | |
| Do amps have a sweet spot? remember that 100wpc will only get you an additional 3 decibels of volume over the 50 wpcRunnin, just wanted to point out that 100WPC is 3dB more power (& not volume) over 50WPC. How much more volume/SPL you will get with a 100WPC is really de... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp But as we saw in the ESL example, the model falls apart.nah! your ESL example, I think, is a bad one. There are several SS amps manuf that have ESLs in mind & they do sound very good with ESLs. Yes, if you pair a SS amp not designed to take a ... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp I believe that a traditional SS amp (one that was not designed for an ESL in mind) will likely sound mediocre 'cuz of the high capacitance load that will tend to make that amp oscillate & eventually fail. OTOH, if a SS amp is designed with an ... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp In the Power Paradigm the box design puts the peak at a lower frequency to take advantage of the extra energy- but again netting fairly flat frequency response, but wiht the additional benefit of bass extension, which might well be up to half an o... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp 05-09-13: Charles1dadAttempting to make tube amps more compatible to drive certain speakers could potentially result in a loss of their instrinsic "sonic attributes".I think 'yes' if you don't make the tube amp big (& resultingly expensive). T... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp Does it truly demand that much more high level engineering expertise to build flatter impedance speakers with better phase angles? i personally think 'yes'. Empirically, we can all get this info by merely looking at the offerings in the marketplac... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp Bombaywalla, I would add just one point to your IMO excellent list of reasons for the proliferation of speakers having problematical impedance curves. And that is that there seems to be a tendency among many audiophiles to equate the ability of a ... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp P.S. Bombaywalla -- I think it's unfair to imply that the S8s are junk. Bifwynne, sorry I never intended to call the Paradigm S8s to be junk. In my post I meant to say that the marketplace is littered with speakers with very mediocre/poor performa... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp Why are there speakers designed with widely fluctuating impedances and steep phase angles in the first place? Why is there not more of an effort to build speakers with flatter impedance curves and gentler phase angles?IMO, it is because building a... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp My understanding is that the S8s are ruler flat when driven by a solid state amp. I doubt that, Bifwynne. With a SS amp, with the output impedance being very low (well into the sub-1 Ohm region), the amplifier is much less perturbed by the roller-... | |
| Current amp vs Voltage amp One of the reasons I chose the Daedalus speakers I have is that their combination of a pretty much flat impedance curve, high efficiency, and high power handling capability makes them suitable for use with just about any amplifier out there...inde... |