eldartford
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| Break-in period for new speakers - sealed boxes I am an engineer, and familiar with the breakin characteristics of elastomers used for shock mounts and for speaker surrounds. I think that speaker breakin changes are related to changes of the properties of the surrounds, principally softening. T... | |
| Vinyl, should I take the plunge? Fatparrot...You may like vinyl for whatever reason, but the notion that signal-to-noise and separation is better than digital is flat out wrong. Very wrong. There is no straightforward way to calculate signal to noise of vinyl, but a few minutes o... | |
| Vinyl, should I take the plunge? For people who are already in, it makes sense to tread water. In your situation, I wouldn't "take the plunge". The money and effort needed is better expended elsewhere. | |
| What amplifier for Magneplanar MG3 for less than ? Gmood1...Thanks for doing the ZR comment. I was beginning to sound like a broken record. | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Bigjoe...I guess I agree that I am "into" digital, and I will use a digital amp, as well as a conventional solid state one, or two.As to speakers, I will try some conventional box speakers (Madisound Odin 7" MTM, or Dynaudio Gemini) as well as the... | |
| Tetrode vs Triode mode in Tube amps What is a "Tetrode"? Is it a Pentode, with one grid not connected?Anyway, in the "Ultralinear" design, the "extra" output tube grid is excited directly with the signal from a winding of the output transformer made for this purpose, and provides th... | |
| Organ CDs with really deep bass I have a very old Mono LP titled "Liebert takes Richmond". It is non classical music, such as you might hear at an ice skating rink, played on a very large Wurlitzer, that gives meaning to the term "all the bells and whistles".. A great recording ... | |
| question re: poor bass response In the good old days preamps had a "Loudness"control which automatically boosted the bass as volume was lowered. It was based on the Fletcher-Munson curve mentioned above. Audiophile purists stamped out Loudness controls, along with Tone controls ... | |
| Bi-amping: y-adaptors or two sets of outputs? In practice, "Two sets of outputs on the preamp" consists of a Y-adapter inside the preamp. It would be possible to have two output line drivers (fed incidentally by a Y-adapter), but I doubt very much that such a preamp exists.Minimum loading of ... | |
| Compare Maggie 1.6QR to IIIA Dewhi...The "Tweeter" in the MG1.6 is just more Mylar diaphram with lighter conductors on it. Same as the Woofer except that the conductors are metal foil rather than wires and (I think) the Mylar is thinner. In the "R" models, the tweeter is a co... | |
| Do not use stock jumpers Artmaltman...By "AU24" I suppose you mean AWG24 wire made of silver. In spite of being silver, such small wire would have much more resistance than most speaker cables. The smaller the wire the greater the benefit of biwire (according to my biwire... | |
| Compare Maggie 1.6QR to IIIA The deal on the MGIII sounds good. I wonder how the speakers sound.About the tweeters,,,replaced three years ago is ok, but they can be damaged in a few seconds.some people (like me) actually prefer the QR tweeter, the technology of which matches ... | |
| What affordable amp should go w/ magnepan 1.6? Like Zenieth, to drive MG1.6 I used an Adcom amp, a 5503, 350 wpc at 4 ohms. It was better than a 100wpc Adcom.I recently changed to CarverPro ZR1600 digital amp rated at 600 wpc into 4 ohms. The CarverPro amp costs only $840 or so via internet. I... | |
| Do not use stock jumpers Artmaltman...Sorry but I can't reverse jumpers because my speakers are biwired. Yes, biwired, something that I never thought worthwhile. But in that case I had actually come up with a theoretical reason why it might make a difference (return wire ... | |
| Red rose Affirmation made in china, any problems?? When I was a boy I lived in Malaya, which was an English colony. About half the population was Chinese, so I gained some first hand experience with Chinese people. They were our neighbors. Chinese people are very intelligent, creative, and wise. C... |