eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| Carver Amazing or Magnepan? A 600 watt amp (CarverPro ZR1600) is great for my MG1.6, and they are only running 80 Hz and up. | |
| 50hz deep enough? I have a very elaborate subwoofer system that measures flat to 20 Hz...but...my Magneplanar MG1.6 speakers, when run full range, roll off at 40+ Hz, however they do seem to have very satisfactory bass for about 95 percent of the music. I believe t... | |
| Carver Amazing or Magnepan? For rock music, hard or soft, a cheap Cerwin Vega is hard to beat! | |
| I'm frustrated with people who don't ... It depends on how you use your music system. Audiophiles listen intently, and get upset about the slightest fault. But many people listen very casually, background sound while engaged in another activity. For them expensive equipment would be a wa... | |
| 4 ohm tap vs 8 ohm tap Of course the output tubes are always connected to the full primary winding of the transformer. So everyone is talking about the secondary windings, 4 vs 8 ohms. However, when you put an 8ohm load on the 4 ohm tap (or 4 on 8) you have changed the ... | |
| How's this for a dose of reality??? Dr Bose. | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion Andy2...If the specs that describe the good amp were properly chosen, the laws of physics would DICTATE that a circuit having the same specs would perform in the same way. The electrons would not know whose circuit they were traveling through. | |
| Lead shot questions Distortion...Suggestion. Turn the speakers upsidedown to fill them. CO2 "pours" like a liquid, and if you go slow you will get a good fill. If the port plugs are tight and not permiable the CO2 will hardly leak ar all. (It will stay in an open dis... | |
| Lead shot questions Putting metal weights inside a speaker enclosure is obviously a misunderstanding of the concept of weighting down the enclosure by external loading. But, it brings to mind an idea that I have been kicking around for a while, but never got to try. ... | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion As a test design engineer (now happily retired)I have a different understanding of the purpose of specs. Performance of the equipment, we all agree, is determined by its design. A prototype is built and its performance is good. Now we want to put ... | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion Sean...."there are loop-holes to every generalization" is one. | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion Audioengr...You may be clever enough to design "an amp that has bandwidth to 1 MHz, but has lousy step reponse (overdamped). " But why would you, or anyone else, do that. In practice there is correllation. | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion Step response can tell you everything you need to know about an amplifier, but criteria are not well defined. From what points do you measure rise time? 10 percent to 90 percent of max amplitude? How many overshoots? How big does the overshoot hav... | |
| How Much Time do You Surf on Audiogon? It depends on whether I have anything useful to be doing. | |
| Can Rock-N-Roll have great sound quality? Why bother? |