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| Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR? With a distortion spec of 0.005%, it can only be a Bose. | |
| HYBRID SACD stereo or multichannel. Metralla....I am curious WHY you are put off by the DVD-A method for stereo playback of multichannel discs. It seems to me that the flexible DVD-A protocol is far superior to the locked-in-concrete rules that Sony has laid down for SACD. | |
| Ported, Sealed or Transmission Line Again I sum it up..."Ported speakers make excellent bird houses". | |
| HYBRID SACD stereo or multichannel. "Hybrid" refers to the fact that the disc has two layers, one reflects light at the wavelength of a CD player laser, and the other at the wavelength of a SACD player. Of course, the CD layer, which you can select, is 2-channel. On the SACD layer, ... | |
| Digital Amps - Your opinions and why so few? Telescope_trade... I, also, haven't heard the Hyperions. As Gmood1 says, the ZR1600 input is balanced (remember this is a Prosound amp) but it works fine single ended using the Radio Shack phono/rca adapter. With regard to preamps, the ZR1600 inpu... | |
| Digital Amps - Your opinions and why so few? No matter how many reviews you read you will not really know how an amp would sound with your speakers, room, and source. The real virtue of the CarverPro ZR1600 (which by the way has no connection to Bob Carver) is that the cost is so low that mo... | |
| Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR? When distortion gets below about 1/2 percent, its significance is small compared with other amp specs. The kind of distortion matters too. IM is the worst, and is usually the one quoted. Harmonic distortion can be indistinguishable from the harmon... | |
| Will a transformer, 220 to 100v, ruin the sound? This question keeps coming up, so a word of explanation may be in order. A transformer consists of many turns of wire, the "Primary", wound around an iron core and connected to the input power. Also wound on the iron core is another wire,the "Seco... | |
| resonance and sealed enclosures Sean...We know how you feel about vented speakers, sealed speakers, and even TL, but what is your take on the resistive vent, such as used with great success in the old Dynaco speakers? I tried this once with a box that was a trifle too small for ... | |
| Digital Amps - Your opinions and why so few? I will put in my usual plug for CarverPro ZR1600...about $800. Put the extra kilobucks into better speakers, and audiophile discs. | |
| Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR? OK. I admit that my MG1.6 (set of three) rolls off at about 40 Hz (measured in my room). To play organ music with trouser-leg-flapping authority, I have an elaborate subwoofer system.However, for most music, when driven with a powerful amp like th... | |
| Major Questions Concerning Tube Amps..?? Sbank... If you play music with more than 2 channels, the center front channel is by far the most important. It is where the soloist is located. An inferior speaker/amp is OK only if you only look at movies. | |
| Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR? For about $800 you can get a CarverPro ZR1600 (digital) amp that puts out 600 watts/channel into 4 ohms, and is designed to work with 2 ohm loads. My MG 1.6 sound great with them, and others have had the same experience. I am sure the Spectron wou... | |
| center ch. as LCR ? Sometimes speakers designed for movie center channel use have their frequency response tailored to enhance dialog intelligibility. Such a speaker would be a poor choice for all around use, and also a poor choice for center channel in a music syste... | |
| Ten Percent Distortion? It is useful to know how much power an amp is good for, bcause your speakers or type of listening may require a certain amount of power. Of course it doesn't tell you how the amp will sound, but it does help select amps for further consideration.I... |