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| Review: H2o Audio Signature Monoblocks I might buy the stereo version, partly out of curiosity regarding how it might compare with my CarverPro ZR1600. The comment about the H2o resembles what was going around several years ago about the ZR1600. The main difference is that the H2O cost... | |
| Better SS amp than my Bryston? Cinematic_systems...You should not be so dogmatic about Maggie ribbons. Quite apart from the lower cost and lesser tendancy to be damaged, some people prefer the MG1.6 sound. There is something to be said for having the tweeter and the woofer shar... | |
| Rothwell In-Line Attenuators? These attenuators, or ones you could make with a few resistors, are no different from the multiposition Attenuators costing several hundred dollars that some audiophiles prefer to pots for gain control, except that they are permanently set to one ... | |
| "High Current" Sean...How could I have missed your point? All those beautiful audiophile words..Clean power, refined musical and natural, lack of smearing strain and ringing, harmonic structure, yada yada,yada. I just don't agree with all your conclusions. | |
| "High Current" Sean...To put it briefly...we don't operate our amps at clipping. What we care about is distortion-free power, and that's what is usually quoted.BEAR this in mind :-) | |
| mono amp for sub Rooze...I use CarverPro zr1600 amps for my subwoofers, and they certainly do the job. One advantage, for a SW, of the zr1600, or any digital amp, is that their efficiency is very high. Much music has no signal content in the SW range, and where th... | |
| "High Current" Sean...To achieve the "doubling down" at clipping which you describe requires a substantial increase in the power supply cost. It is not a characteristic that is particularly useful in the home audio situation, where amps are not driven to clippin... | |
| mono amp for sub Kenwood LO7M (vintage from the 80's). DC coupled from input to output, and super for a SW amp. (Lots of luck finding one). | |
| Anybody blow a ceramic woofer with an OTL amp? I used tube circuitry for several decades and never had a tube "blow". In my experience when a tube "went bad" there were symptoms like audio distortion, noise, oscillation, blue glow and the like but never anything catistrophic.One of the disadva... | |
| Shure V15VxMR to be discontinued Sean...Your remarks about "deep cleaning" are interesting. Are your methods capable of removing some of the dirty lyrics? | |
| "High Current" Sean...This issue of measuring power "at" clipping is new to me. I usually see specs quoted at some specified level of distortion (presumably an acceptable level). But isn't it true that distortion typically begins to increase abruptly just before... | |
| Speakers for vocalists Quadophile...Female vocalist is a good "test signal", for overall quality and imaging, but a man's voice will root out any tendancy to bass boominess. | |
| "High Current" The amplifier design determines the maximum voltage that it can put out. The load (speaker) impedance, 8 ohms, 4 ohms etc. determines how much current will flow if this voltage is output. That is, if the amplifier can deliver that much current. It... | |
| Speakers for vocalists Some speakers are definitely better than others for voice. My Maggie 1.6 are pretty good I think, and do a lot of other things well. However, many years ago I had KLH5 and KLH12 speakers that were the best I have ever heard for voice. They were th... | |
| Shure V15VxMR to be discontinued analogee@gte.net...Before the days of mag tape, radio stations used to use 16 inch records to prerecord programs. Some audiophiles used these turntables. The long pickup arm was a plus. |