danvignau
Responses from danvignau
| What integrated would you recommend for summer amp? Wow! What a concept! Wheee! An audio store's wet dream, seasonal amps. I use two Audire powered systems and one Bryston powered. All I need is to set up my old Adcom and I can have a system for each season. | |
| Cool it! At full Blast, my amps run slightly warm. I attribute it to the huge power supplies that allow the outputs to coast as they alow the electricity through, rather than working hard to extract it from a small power supply. The amps use very little ... | |
| Damping Factor - Interesting article Oh yeah, Thanks for the article. It is a good one. | |
| Damping Factor - Interesting article It is hard to say that a damping factor over 200 is inaudible, because the amps with very high damping factors do usually sound better. The huge power supplies needed to get a high DF also contribute in other ways. For example, my old 125 wpc Au... | |
| Which one to choose between two 80K$ tube amps? If I had the money, I would probably get B&W Nautilus speakers, which sound right with 8 channels of about 350 wpc. To power these, I would choose the top Audio Research amps, along with at least a 1500 square foot room with about 16 fo... | |
| Tube versus SS I thought that because people were staying home, they were using more A/C, or more heat, cooking more, using more hot water, etc. OR? Do you live in the midst of a bunch of factories or malls? It has always been my opinion that a few mi... | |
| Looking For Advice After Dumb Vandy Purchase At least, disconnect the drivers and use an ohm meter to make certain the voice coils are not either shorted or open. Also, if the ad did not specifically say the speakers were non- functional due to missing crossover parts, you might have some r... | |
| Speakers that are a great value! I am afraid you are misinformed. The dealer cost on high end audio speakers is 50% of retail. Parts are always priced individually at higher prices. For example, when a 1963 Bel Air 4 door sedan with a the options of a radio, carpets, 283 ... | |
| Set-up with two subs and an integrated amp I run matching and separate amps and preamps to my mins and subs. This gives total control of th bass without adding phase shift or tone control ramps. | |
| old high end preamps.. A buddy gave me his Bryston amp and preamp. I could be very happy with only these. They are excellent. Are they as good as my other stuff? Close; maybe not quite as dynamic when there is a lot of bass, and a bit less precise if I wanted to obse... | |
| is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl XM Radio tries by adding scratchy DJ sounds at the beginning of their programs. | |
| Just confused Rubber isolates vibration. A hole in the wall for speaker wire, allows equipment to be in the next room. | |
| Directionality Explained If wire is directional, does each leg of a speaker cable flow in the opposite direction from the other> One wire supplies power to push the speaker; the pulls it. As I have said before, A/C power and speaker push pull current, does not just f... | |
| Are integrated amps technically better than separates? In my Audire amps, with its two 500 watt transformers, 8 26,000 mf caps, multiple outputs and big heat sinks, there is no room for similar, but smaller preamp parts. Not to mention (What a phrase!) the magnetic emanations that would require major... | |
| has anybody else noticed this about flac audio? Maybe I was not clear enough. I agree that their may be streaming formats that play back exactly what is sent, but it is still compressed before sending. That is why I favor D to D LP's, and even it is mixed down in the console before the cuttin... |