darkmoebius
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| Have $600 Need input on upgrade for Acurus Amp Check out a used Rotel RB-1070(130 wpc) or RB-1080(200wpc) in the $400-675 range. While Rotel's preamps tend to be on the hard/sterile side of neutral, I found their amps to be very, very, good for the money. I owned the 980BX about 6-7 years ago ... | |
| Help with finding ultra-transparent pre-amp Hi Sashav,Not to beat a dead horse, but did you adjust the internal output switches in the Wadia for highest output voltage(0.3V to 4.25V) and set the 7BSST to 1V input sensitivity when you tried the Transformer Volume Control(TVC)?Seems odd that ... | |
| Fully differential tube power amplifier Atmasphere, every one of their amps and preamps is a fully Balanced Differential Design - from the 30wpc stereo amp up to their monster 500wpc monoblocks.I think they always have been and always will be. | |
| MC Pre-preamps Throw me in the "very skeptical" camp if not downright shocked if it would work. With a .2 mV cartridge you are going to require around 64 db of gain from the phono stage ALONE to properly match up Ooops, thanks for the correction HDM. I wrote tha... | |
| MC Pre-preamps You need +77dB total gain to boost 0.2mV to the 1.4V input sensitivity of your B&K Components ST-140 amp. Your DJ PRE II phono preamp has a max gain of +45dB, so your B&K Components CS-115 line preamp would need to add at least +32dB gain.... | |
| What is under $5k speaker with best bass slam? Active ATC's are pretty damn impressive for bass slam, but are nowhere near Dh4kim's price range. A guy I bought an amp from had the the SCM 150's and played traditional Japanese and Chinese drum music on them - holy crap!Explosive dynamics, incre... | |
| What is under $5k speaker with best bass slam? Will 12" drivers produce slam in a 12 by 12 room? In a room that small, I'd think your biggest problem wouldn't be finding speakers w/ slam, but finding speakers that won't overload the room w/ bass so that it cancels or muddies everything out.Ro... | |
| Good, Affordable Horns? Hi Mapman,I have the Cain & Cain double horn IM-Bens, essentially two of those single-Bens stacked together upside down.(if that makes sense)I have also listened to single Bens. Beautifully made, that's for sure. And the sound, with proper ups... | |
| Flea SET amp for Shindo Aurieges As Jaybo so succinctly stated, when making your first venture into SET-land, start with your speakers and they will dictate your amp choices. BTW, "flea power" to most people means anything under 20wpc, but to SET fanatics, that usually means 2wpc... | |
| Flea SET amp for Shindo Aurieges Mikey,If you are a bass freak AND want to go SET, then be prepared to have very LARGE speakers and/or spend a lot of money unless your room is fairly small. Superior bass in single-driver speakers is even more difficult because a single driver has... | |
| Flea SET amp for Shindo Aurieges Hi Mikey,You haven't mentioned what your speakers are and their efficiency/load curve, that is the biggest determining factor of what SET amp(s) to get. Also, knowing your room size, listening distance, and volume levels would help, too.Let us kno... | |
| High efficiency speakers for Shindo The 10x5 has 2.5mV output and the Era has +41.5dB gain resulting in 0.3V into the Shindo, which has +16dB gain sending ~1.89V to your Marantz amp. Should be good enough, although a little headroom would be optimal.The question is what is your Mara... | |
| High efficiency speakers for Shindo Hi Mikeyc8,I had the Gram Slee Era + Elevator EXP stepup. One thing that is absolutely critical is that GS components stay powered up 24/7. If not, it takes a good 24-72 hours for it to sound it's best. Gram Slee, himself, thinks 2 weeks.Regardles... | |
| Preference for large drivers? Onhwy61,While an array of smaller drivers can equal the total surface area of a one or two much larger ones and exceed them in efficiency, doesn't the line array introduce it's own problems of sound source localization?In a tall line array, the di... | |
| Should I get the Art Audio Jota Phaelon - "Since I acquired the Modwright, there seems to be just a little too much of a fuzzy warm aura that I'm attributing to the Premier 11a."Tomryan - "By the way, the CJ 17 and 11 are both a bit "fuzzy" sounding, kind of like looking outside... |