eldartford
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| Does "full range" really mean anything? There is a lot of music that has no real low frequency signal, and the high end, above 14KHz becomes less and less important as you go through life. There are other characteristics of a loudspeaker that remain important, and a "full range" speaker... | |
| klipsch speakers,be honest Perhaps the most realistic music reproduction I have ever heard was an excellent recording of Sousa marches played through a pair of Khorns, using excellect electronics in a dedicated room. The Tubas would flap your trouser legs, and the trumpets ... | |
| Why do tubed preamps image better than SS? Having tube equipment improves your image in audiophile circles. But about the sound...the loudspeaker is far and away the most important contributor to imaging, good and bad. | |
| Outputs of 2 amps share common return - problem? Sean...Unless the interconnects are disconnected (or switched) all the amp grounds are tied together by the signal returns, even if you go to the trouble of disconnecting the speaker returns. (Assuming RCA interconnects). If you follow your argume... | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? No spite or envy of the audio system, But I do envy the money involved. I could buy a really nice airplane. | |
| Outputs of 2 amps share common return - problem? In digital amps (all I have seen) both speaker output terminals are hot wrt ground. So don't try this switch with a digital amp. Otherwise, no problem. | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? screwed. | |
| Fully Automatic Tables Sony PS X800 was a direct drive linear tracking table with Biotracer (servo'd) arm. Was never cheap (roughly $1000 way back then). A technical tour-de-force. Multiple microprocessors. They must have sold it at a loss. Superb performance. Not "audi... | |
| Two way vs. Three way Speakers SEAS Thor is 2-way. | |
| HELP Best way to ship 160 lbs. speaker? Furniture movers are an option. | |
| Anyone ever drive active speakers from speaker out All you need is four resistors. A subwoofer amp for which I have a schematic shows the Hot speaker signal loaded by 100 ohms 2 watts to ground, and a 330K 1/4 watt resistor from the speaker signal to the low level input of the amp. In this subwoof... | |
| What other obsessions do you have? I am a recreational aircraft pilot. And you thought that High End Audio was expensive! | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? Bright_star_audio...The "motors" that actively damp vibration of the platform are piezo devices. The weight placed on the table does not affect its performance. There is a manual adjustment for loading, so as to get the electronic system centered ... | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? Bright_star_audio...Thanks for the info.The isolation table we used is not pneumatic. It is purely electronic, using piezoelectric motors. The construction is of stainless steel (nonmagnetic). The model we bought is good for a load of about 60 pou... | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? Bright_star_audio...You can edit until someone answers.Disclaimer...I am a skeptic about vibration control, except for phono turntables.At work we required an absolutely vibrationless surface to put a pool of mercury that we used to get a perfectl... |