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| American Made Audio Unveils New Site For Made in USA Components darkj,a few US manuf that you have forgotten:* Convergent Audio Technology (often referred to as CAT) - they are based in Buffalo/Rush, NY. Unfortunately no official website. * Selah Audio - speaker manuf based in Garner, NC (czarivey - how the he... | |
| Upsampling - but seriously folks Any fans of upsampling out there? Anyone have experience with upsampling in which it actually makes your source sound better?yeah, I have one CDP (a Wadia) that does upsampling well & I seem to like the sonics from it. It upsamples to 24/96 on... | |
| Will an Isolation Transformer Help My Digital? I am experiencing noise from my digital components into my system. It presents as high frequency interference thru the speakers once the components are warmed up. This interference is being sent back to the mains and can be heard when music is bei... | |
| Using 4 mono blocks infection, one way to do this using the existing in-speaker x-over is:* use a y-connector on preamp L ch* connect one output to 1 mono driving the mid/hi* connect 2nd output to 2nd mono driving the bass/mid-bass* use a y-connector on preamp R ch* ... | |
| Sanders magtech or odyssey kismet Satie IS an audiophile (purist analog lover, with a tube amp on the M/T panels of his Tympani’s), and the Crown he has on his T-IV bass panels is the discontinued Macrotech 5002VZ. He advises against the cheap and popular XLS line, so maybe I ... | |
| Amp or speaker first, upgrade IMO your speaker choices are vastly varied - Vandy 3A, SF Venere S, Wharfdale Jade7. The Vandy 3A is a time-coherent speaker (I'm a huge fan of time-coherent speakers & would go for such a speaker any time, any place) & so I'd recommend th... | |
| Crown XLS 2500 - the best amp value per dollar? 1extreme, i believe the lesson learnt here is that Crown amps are very good if you chose wisely where to use them - as a brute amp to drive a bass cone/panel. Most of the time Crown amps are used in professional settings - studios, traveling bands... | |
| Is Sound Lab Owners Group Forum Dead? ok. thanx for this feedback. Too bad that both Brian & you have come up empty-handed on this.Any point in contacting SoundLab themselves & asking about the continued existence of SLUG?Thanks. | |
| Dynamics In A Speaker Spencer, did you manage to get in contact with somebody for your ESLs? sorry i realize it's off-topic..... | |
| Dynamics In A Speaker besides what Duke (audiokinesis) wrote about the importance of not putting the drivers into mechanical compression, I think that ivan_nosnibor brings up an important point - cross-overs.For me the most dynamic speakers are time-coherent speakers t... | |
| Sanders magtech or odyssey kismet thanks for the feedback rodman99999 & bdp24. | |
| Can SMPS based preamps/amps sound organic ? SMPS is basically a power regenerator.I'm sorry this is not a correct statement.You take in the AC & convert it to a high(ish) ripple DC & then feed that into a SMPS & you get a tightly regulated DC power supply.For a linear power supp... | |
| Sanders magtech or odyssey kismet Satie IS an audiophile (purist analog lover, with a tube amp on the M/T panels of his Tympani’s), and the Crown he has on his T-IV bass panels is the discontinued Macrotech 5002VZ.ok. what did he do about the mismatched input sensitivity of the tu... | |
| Sanders magtech or odyssey kismet bdp24,your post referencing member Satie & his amp output power was indeed illuminating to me.yeah, the Tympanis want some real power, eh!PArasound is a good choice for a brute amp at a reasonable price. Here are 2 choices that might fit:https... | |
| Can SMPS based preamps/amps sound organic ? Thanks for the clarification, Almarg.The fact that the 2013 patent application (I believe it was 2013 & not 2003) has not issued seems par for the course. I had one patent application issue in 2015 when it was filed in 2011. Re. the 'patent pe... |