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| Why do tube amps often subjectively sound more powerful than SS ? How many tube amps have a damping factor of even 10 into 8 ohms, especially with 4 ohm speakers(halving the damping factor) that are so common today? I can only think off the top of my head of one tube amp with a high damping factor, the old Melos... | |
| Why do tube amps often subjectively sound more powerful than SS ? Just thinking out loud. Tube amps also tend to boost the mid bass and mid range (from about 1 kHz to 2 kHz or ao) due to their low damping factor interacting with speaker impedance. This could be part of the explanation for differences in ound ver... | |
| a rant Themproblem is learning what you want gear to perform like and not basing your decisions and self worth on others ideas. | |
| Enough of the Stereophile futuristic statements about the Focal Diva Utopia Many products have plus and minus characteristics. Many time these are not awful but you're aware of them. That makes it a bad or good product for you, nit necessarily a bad piece. There are many products I don't prefer. I don't buy them. But I wi... | |
| Comparing speakers at home questions I'd do both. A few comments. When going back and forth I often notice I hear differences best when starting from my one set of speakers, going to the new ones AND especially when going back to the 1st speaker. Secondly, if the new speakers are rea... | |
| One Sub or Two? The best answer is at least 3. On a speaker that goes deep the question isn't so much bass extension but countering room affects. The best place for the B&W speakers is almost certainly not the best place for the subs. Rooms have spots with ba... | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? Asking for advice on which speakers to buy or listen to is useless. Even good speakers vary a lot in their plusses and minuses. First you need to know yourself, what factors you must have and which make a speaker impossible to live with. Then you... | |
| Bose 901 Review Well Done. The real problem is they don't do what Amar says they should do because on a good recording the room ambience is already there and besides adding in the sound bouncing around the room is merely adding a new distortions. Ad to that the frequency re... | |
| Are EL34 based amps more musical than KT series based ? Or it's purely a matter of design? Just a thoughtful guess but given the changes in sound when switching the same kind of output tube by different manufacturers, the make of tube may have as much influence on the sound as the tube type. | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? This is not a new topic. In the 1970s I hung out with Gordon Holt and I still recall that when he got a phone call from a reader he'd ask about their record collection. And too many times he owned about 10 records, all of them audiophile sound app... | |
| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? At 80 dB, a fairly loud average level your ears are down about 10dB at 30 Hz. It's significantly worse at lower levels. It's not the equipment. What you hear is what happens at low loudness levels. You need to equalize to get the affects you want ... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS Measurements matter. Two factors. You usually need to combine them with perceptive listening. Subjective feeds objective and vice versa. But some measurements matter more than others in the hands of an experienced designer. One who measures an... | |
| Can you damage your speakers by plugging bass port vent? Re panzrwagn - Closed box sound is dryer because it ends faster, has less overhang. It's more detailed because it stops more quickly. Speed of bass is really not the initial attack but how quickly it stops and closed boxes stop faster. It's just t... | |
| Can you damage your speakers by plugging bass port vent? Every one is correct. There will be no harm done. But you will, of course, lose some of the lowest bass since that comes from the port. How much loss depends on how much you stuff. Experiment; try using various amounts of say Dacron or plastic foa... | |
| Which subwoofer should I get? The biggest flaw of almost all subs is the lack of a high pass filter for the main speakers. It's hard to do when you don't know the main speakers. But properly done a high pass will make the subs/mains twice as good because the main woofers have ... |