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| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers George, this is my 6th pair of Martin Logans and I've seen the graphs so your observation is absolutely correct. I'm using a Peachtree Audio 220W power amp but I don't know how adequate its current capabilities are in regard to the impedance incre... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Atmasphere, in each system that I used for this test the players were different; one is my own which is the Shanling CD-100, another is an old Theta, and the third source is our Apple TV playing Apple lossless files. The results are the same in al... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Thanks. That, of course, makes sense and I have tried the same offending CD's on 2 other systems, one of which was my own located in another room; the other was a setup belonging to a friend. I found the discomfort to be similar at the same point ... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers I may be in over my head in my following comments but here goes. In the process of trying to determine where my hearing is most sensitive I used a test CD which steps sound frequencies from 20Hz to 20kHz. This is how I found that frequencies betwe... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Atmasphere, thanks, and I apologize to all about the double post. I've had an issue with forum signin and sometimes the only way to get back into the forum is to start a new thread. Anyway yours was the kind of education that I needed. I've spent ... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Audioconnection, there is approximately three and 1/2 feet between the sides of the entertainment center and the side walls with the speakers approx 1 foot away from the sides of the entertainment center. They are forward of it by 1/2 foot with th... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers ZD, you summarized my inquiry better than I and hit on one of the issues that has been in the forefront of my thinking, the factors associated with timbre. Even with my age related hearing issues, in my uneducated way I still believe that those fr... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Detlof, at low volumes I experience no discomfort at any frequency but at "normal" levels there are ranges of frequencies, as I pointed out, that bother me especially when from a percussive source like a piano. It might be important to mention tha... | |
| Cables best suited to electrostatic speakers Al, I had actually started this thread before our recent conversation referenced to an original one going back about a year and one half ago. After some thought inspired by you and the several here, I've decided to take a serious look at replacing... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? The judge in Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley by the Kingston Trio....."I don't know whether to hang you or not but this here killin' of deputy sheriffs has just naturally got to stop". | |
| Soundstage - when wide is too wide Yes, this is all good advice and I will use it in the continuing pursuit for a better setup of my "new" system. To answer the question of which EQ I'm using, I have one DBX 1531 set in mono for each speaker providing 31 band per channel control. T... | |
| Soundstage - when wide is too wide The way it was recorded crossed my mind mainly because not all of my recordings suffer this phenomenon to the same extent. On the other hand, and somewhat off-thread, I'm just learning how to set up the equalizer, an exercise not as straightforwar... | |
| Your First System I built my first system when I was 15; I'm 72 now. My first amp was a Heathkit that took me a week to build. My first enclosure was a thick cardboard box with a coax speaker because I couldn't wait to hear my amp. The source was a cheap turntable.... | |
| Equalizers - don't listen to the nay sayers I'm glad to hear that there are some who appreciate the value in experiments that stray from the path of the audio "purist" who would dismiss this approach out of hand. The other reason for this post is to correct my equipment description. Even th... | |
| Equalizers - don't listen to the nay sayers I'm currently using a pre-owned DBX 1531 which provides 2/3 octave adjustment in stereo. Now that I'm sure I'll keep an EQ in the system I'll either get a second 1531 and use one unit for each channel for 1/3 octave operation or buy a good 31 band... |