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| Gain Matching - need advice Don't see Miller replying to this one:'Dimwit, your speakers are way too sensitive, concentrate on getting speakers with less than 87dB efficiency'. :-))Crazy to ask AR to modify the piece. They would need to work out what to do and charge you $0... | |
| I Just Inherited 4,000 LPs Hi ElliottI don't know you but I know you are loving going through all those LPs and being uplifted by your old friend.My recommendation is to take your time and wallow in the experience as long as possible. When my father passed aged 102 I disco... | |
| Audio research ref 6SE vs world I have been running AR Ref 6 for a year and love it. Mostly on vinyl programme.I don't find the sound over SS like. Sure it's tight accurate and clean, but it puts across the emotion in the music big-time. But not with the character of lo-watt ... | |
| Remarkably better sound possible with just 1 system component change? Miller once again proves he is a danger to newbies and everyone else by recommending a $10k spend on snake oil.Not much danger though for this wise OP who sees right through this transparent nonsense.It is time we all agree $1 spent on passive twe... | |
| Truly Balanced Cheaper Preamplifiers? There perhaps needs to be clarity and (dare I say) agreement over what 'truly balanced' actually is, circuitwise. There seems to be different opinions.Recently I have contributed to a debate concerning the Audio Research Ref Phono 3SE. This is d... | |
| Perfect Pop Songs Almost all McCartney songs in the first three years are the very epitome of the pop song. Simple, catchy, short. The SQ of the original records is not bad either.Annoyingly they can stick in your head for days on end.After 60 years in the game, ... | |
| What kind of listening chair Comfortable.Important to have the optimal ear height to suit your speakers.Low back below ear level. | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ AlexWe shall agree to differ and remain friends.Doesn't happen much here I know.But I'm hoping for some changes and to expose the trolls and the bigoted and closed minded for what they are. Know who they are but don't name names.Different opinion... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ Thanks Alex.In terms of my original question, I am rather afraid you are saying high efficiency speakers are rare because they're rare. That won't get us far.And on your second point. Or are systems electronics commonly used to drive them often f... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ Thank you phusis.If I understand you correctly, you make a new point after 119 posts to this thread:A large majority of audiophile speaker designs are low efficiency because a large majority of audiophiles don't like some of the sound characterist... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ Hi ctsooner.Others have said that higher sensitivity speakers have to be larger in order to transduce low frequencies at the correct levels. Also that driver manufacturing tolerances are tighter. Both these increase costs.But if that's not corre... | |
| Any way to listen to wav or high bit files with anything approaching audiophile sound? Unfortunately this project is flawed and doomed to failure.Having searched quite a few sources, the consensus seems to be that around 50,000 albums and singles were released each year until the streaming era when the figure has risen to at least 1... | |
| Krell Class A/B power amps, do 'anticipator circuits' work? Yeah. When you've got all that heat the caps don't last too long.I had my KRS200s totally rebuilt 10 or 15 years ago. Perhaps they will need another cap replacement before I'm done with them. I'm keeping them, they are the daddy of them all. | |
| Krell Class A/B power amps, do 'anticipator circuits' work? Thank you Jaytor, that is extremely helpful. I had not read it previously. It may be seen to settle the question I put.I have read the patent. It relates to a methodology of adjusting the bias current in response to measured changes in current ... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ Thank you Tomic. I have heard it said that speakers for use in home music applications should NOT be voiced in an anechoic chamber as the effect of the room boundaries will be entirely lost. The result will be an artificial sound environment unr... |