ddriveman
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| single driver speakers As pointed out by some of the replies above, single drivers have wonderful midrange, speed, tone, timbre and clarity that is hard for mutiway drivers to match. For example, a piano covers a wide frequency range. The bass will be covered by a woofe... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? I have a Feastrex Full range driver, 9inch field coil. It practically covers from 60 Hz to 18khz. I augment with a pair of subwoofers (REL) and Supertweeters (Townshend Ribbons). I agree with cellcbern that the midrange of widebanders offers somet... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Here is what I recommend:1) Chord DAVE DAC2) Chord Blu2 CD transport and Upsampler.The combination of the Chord DAVE and BLU2 as an upsampler is very good and you can get both new and still be within your 20K budget.I currently have 2 other tube D... | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? Hi Thom,Your comments on driver tubes and circuitry is spot on. Once you chose a particular DHT tube, separates SET amps is really the driver circuitry. Followed by the OPTs. Or do like I did, which is to ditch the OPTs altogether OTL. My Berning ... | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? 300B's are very musical and presents the "SET" sound wonderfully. I've always had a 300B in my system and it's still my main amp even though I've gone through the First Watt F2J and SIT2 amps and other SET like 2A3, 421A and 71A. I've certainly sp... | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass Hi fsmithjack,Thanks for your reply. OK, understand now that you're keeping the Saadhana's. Of all your tube/FET amps ( Triode lab 2A3 - Yamamoto 45 - Fi 300b - Audio Note 300b - First Watt J2, F2J, F5, Bakoon) which do you think mates best with... | |
| Magico S5 vs KEF Blade 2 vs TAD Evo One vs YG Kipod II Sig w/pwr bass I'm thinking of the Rethm Saadhana. What are you looking for that the Saadhana's are not giving you now. Are you using your PassLab amps to drive the Saadhana? These are hi eff speakers so seems an overkill. I can't soeak to the speakers in your l... | |
| Best platter mat, especially for DD turntables @sdory . Thank you for sharing your experience with the GEM Dandy mat. I've not tried it yet but will now be on my "to try" list, especially given your experience on Technics TTs. | |
| Best platter mat, especially for DD turntables Hi Raul,Thanks for your insight on AT 666. I will have to check on my AT 666 again. I'll send you email and maybe you can help me with pictures.So, you like the AT 666 because of the vacuum hold then. Ahh! I see.Hmm, makes me want to go and figure... | |
| Best platter mat, especially for DD turntables Hi lewm,I see our point (I think).The DD motor generates motion via magnetic force and hence there is no mechanical contact (although one can argue that the force generated by magnetic field in a way provides "stiffness" between rotor an stator an... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Phew! I'm so glad I moved my SDP platter post to a new discussion. That started a whole new discussion and can of worms. @theophile is correct and I stand corrected.Back to vintage DDs. Anyone tried putting EMI/RFI shield on the platters? I refe... | |
| Best platter mat, especially for DD turntables Hi lewm,Thank you for your clarification on the DD motor to spindle connection. You are correct that the rotor is just the magnet and is part of the motor only and by itself is inert. In fact for the SP10MK3 (and only the MK3, the MK2 is different... | |
| Best platter mat, especially for DD turntables Hi Raul,Good to hear from you again, my friend. My Essential 3160 is performing very well and is still ... "Essential" to my system, LOL! Thank you for it. Yes, I do have the AT666 mat. But I stopped using it after the rubber lips lost their elast... | |
| Best platter mat, especially for DD turntables Hi Halcro,Do you use the pigskin mat on top of the CU180 or directly onto the bare aluminum TT-101 platter? Thanks for your reply to "inna", could not have said it better. | |
| Best platter mat, especially for DD turntables Hi Sampsa,Thank you for sharing the link to the wonderful Japan trip with Jean Hiraga. There is so much to learn from Japanese audiophiles. And I really like WE horns and recently heard a replica WE system. Sounds very good. And of course the Japa... |