drbarney1
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| Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore? I used to use GR Research OB 7 speakers which were ideal for 45 SET's which I rigged as active crossovers for the midrange and tweeter, capacitors and resistors between the 6SN7 mu-follower drivers of the 45's and an 833A driven by a 45 for the wo... | |
| The best looking speakers I have to disagree with the opinion "Magnepans are the ugliest . . ." They have such a pure simplicity they look more beautiful than speakers costing five or even six figures. Magnepans sound to me more like live music in the opera house I go to t... | |
| Carver, THE standard of excellence IMO I earned my PhD in physics (interdisciplinary applied mathematics and mathematical physics) from Delaware State University. I chose to do my qualifier exams in physics rather than applied mathematics because I like the physics a little more, I was... | |
| A little History lesson on, "High- End" cables: If you calculate the resistance of typical speaker cables at DC vs 20,000 Hz, for 2 meters of 8 gauge wire is 0.008 Ohms for DC and 0.016 Ohms for the skin effect at 20,000 Hz. Put this in series with a 4 Ohm DC resistance Magnepan speaker and com... | |
| Again the topic of weight of amps I built my amplifier system with a separate power supply and separate monoblock final stages with big radio station transmitting tubes and a separate SET with its own separate power supply and, of course a separate preamplifier. If I had built it ... | |
| Equipment Rack Between Speakers...Good or Bad If the amplifiers and sources are on the floor between speakers with higher midrange and tweeter elements this should not interfere with the acoustics. | |
| Has anyboidy had any experience with an 833-A single-ended triode amplifier? PS I just looked at Will Vincent's amplifier and it is a beautiful piece of art work. | |
| Has anyboidy had any experience with an 833-A single-ended triode amplifier? I need help in how to put photographs in these answers. The picture of the curves on the 833-A at 1kV have near equal spacing for grid voltages vs plate current so it looks linear. I do not have distortion measuring equipment but I understand seco... | |
| Disco...yep, I'm going there Therein lies the problem, " . . . it defined our consciousness . . . " and not everybody wanted to have that definition of who and what they were required to be in order to conform and to fit in by a simplistic linear drum beat on the level of kin... | |
| What are the speakers you very rarely find in the Used market(Audiogon or Anywhere)? While I like to hear how other people combine amplifiers and speakers, Magnepans closed my mind to anything else. | |
| Magnepans If you have a tube amplifier and you need power to drive Magnepans, and you know how to do it, replace the output transformer of your tube amplifier with a headphone amp stepped down to about 800 Ohms, for SET the LL1930 is perfect for this. Conne... | |
| The Science of Cables I have heard subtle differences between how different speaker cables sound in an A-B demonstration at an audio club and the difference was above a threshold of placebo effect. Interconnect cables can sound different if capacitance is not accounted... | |
| A comparison between two DACs, one R-2R, the other ES 9038-based. More than 10 years ago, when I could afford it, I purchased an MSB Platinum with upgraded R2R ladders, one in each channel, upsmpling to 384, and a buffer to eliminate jitter. It sounds very good. I later got an Oppo universal NuForce player for ... | |
| New Magneplanar Bass Panel DWM I live in a small house with a small listening area sectioned off the circular shape of the floor in my round house. I recently connected Magnepan 0.7s to my system. The room is not big enough for larger speakers, even if I could afford them. Acco... | |
| What are the best speakers you have ever owned and why? I have to go with richopp69. While I remember DQ-10s sounding clear years ago, nothing, not even $50,000 speakers come close to Magnepans. 0.7s are my favorites because they are simple two way speakers and I do not trust pure ribbon tweeters becau... |