boomerbillone
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| Need help matching speakers with amplifer Hello phays245. Amplifier power is a bit odd and confusing for beginners. Don't feel bad. In the world of money, doubling sound quite serious. I used to be able to take my wife to lunch for $20. Lately it seems more like $40! Ouch! Sadly, amplif... | |
| What does your DAC sound like Hello dvdgreco! Emotiva makes a remarkable deck for the $$. Very smooth and musical. I'm a musician and know how instruments really sound. I've bought and listened extensively to Sony, a couple of those bug named thumb drive sized plug ins, SMSL... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Hello mcraghead. Transmission lines taper from larger to smaller while horns taper from smaller to wider, the opposite. There are mathematics dictating the rate of taper. The transmission line loads the rear of the speaker, and tends to damp reson... | |
| Swapped the baby Maggie’s in this evening Hello All! Tubeguy76 wondered if the GRS crossover for the LRS+ was a big change or a subtle one. Definitely not subtle. It's like this: your'e on vaccation and you've been driving for two days and you have half a day to go to your destination. ... | |
| Swapped the baby Maggie’s in this evening Three cheers for the li'l Maggies (magipets?)! I have the LRS and the LRS+ on different systems. By all meand get the serious crossovers from GRS labs. For both. Magnepan uses less than ideal parts in their crossovers and ferrous metals in the ha... | |
| Class A bias, speaker sensitivity, watts...? Hello Craigvmn. All the numbers can be intimidating, especially when newer, younger writers, with no real knowledge and eager to please their bosses, write rubbish with is filled with pure rubbish and misuse of technical terms. For instance, many ... | |
| Such Great help before. Maybe some more help now Hello paqua 123! Cables do make a difference, small, but noticable. Some dealers and manufacturers will loan you cables to try out. The cable that feeds the DAC is the most critical. You can lose ony postage/shipping costs in trying out cables. I... | |
| What actually determines volume power? Is it watts? Hello dman777. By now, you have waded through a lot of anwers to your question. They are all pretty good. Let's talk first about speaker sensitivity. A speaker rated at 84 db (we assume the ratings are honest) will play 6 db softer than a speaker... | |
| Maggie LRS vs .7 Hello pkatsuleasz! Grab those Maggie .7s! Put the modified crossovers from GRS labs in and you'll be delighted. I you don't care about cosmetics, you can cut the fabric on the backside over the factory crossovers - cheap parts. Worried about pla... | |
| Impedance question Hello musicfan2349. Feel free to experiment with the taps feeding your subwoofer. A tube amp doesn't much care what it drives. The transformer protects the amp, even from short circuits. A speaker changes impedence with frequency, air loading, an... | |
| D amps Hello bernal737 May I recommend the power ampss from Starke sound? They make 4 channel and 8 channel amps. They make their own modules. I have six of their four channel models and they drive the Linkwitz 521-4 systems superbly. I also use them w... | |
| Calling All Tube Gurus Hello All! When it comes to 12AX7s, the NOS Telefunkens can't be beat, unfortuntely that makes them pricey. I was very surprised, pleasantly, when I put one in my Elekit 8600. Victor Kung, the distributor for Elekit, was kind enough to send me on... | |
| Why tube rectification? Hello Bruce 19. The reason to use tube rectifiers is that the high votage builds up slowly (versus instantly) and that avoids the schock of WHAM! all the capacitors in the unit are suddenly awakened from their fully discharged condition by the ap... | |
| New Speakers under consideration - but I’m afraid Hello ritter06! If you like your speakers, don't be in a hurry to change them. I do agree that Legacy speakers are excellent, if they will fit in your space. Most of them are on the large side. They do make a smallish one. Here's an easy & ch... | |
| Open baffle speakers If you MUST put speakers against the back wall, Larsen is the speaker for you. They are designed for that role and do it very well. If you wish to put your OB speakers (I have maggies and Linkwitz) close to a back wall, just hang a rug, curtain, q... |