eldartford
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| Inactive speakers...some measurements Sean...You are correct that the classical mathematical analysis of loudspeaker designs is ridiculously complex. I prefer to copy designs that I like, and then tweek things a little at a time. Not too appropriate for an engineer like me, but this i... | |
| Carver Pro ZR1600 sean...I think I will stick with 600X6 for a while (for the fronts). I also have biamped rears (misc amps) to annoy the neighbors.I find curious the way that speakers, Maggies in particular, respond to very high powered amps. I know that the actua... | |
| SACD my thoughts at this time..................... Restating my opinion...the bigest problem with SACD is the existance of DVD-A. With a well-made disc and a good player SACD is better than a CD. But the same can be said for DVD-A, which shares technology with the mass market for DVD-V, and repres... | |
| Carver Pro ZR1600 With arrival of the third ZR 1600 I now have the "final" setup with each ZR 1600 driving a MG1.6 with one channel, and a subwoofer system with the other.It's true that Maggies just get better and better as you increase the power amp, and they ain'... | |
| Inactive speakers...some measurements sean...There probably are enough different ways to configure a speaker system so that every one of us guys on Audiogon (plus Elizabeth) can have their own way to argue is best! Vance Dickason in his "Loudspeaker Design Cookbook" talks about "Augme... | |
| Inactive speakers...some measurements sean...It isn't easy to figure out what to make of the data, so what I did was to determine what kind of power level we are talking about. I assumed that this power was all radiated (or absorbed if you like). And my conclusion is that inphase or o... | |
| SACD 2 channel vs Redbook 2 Channel My experience, and from what I read from others, is that even the cheapest DVD-A player sounds a lot better than CD, but to get good results from SACD requires a relatively expensive player. So the answer is: yes...SACD is superior to CD but only ... | |
| Small size tube amps...any recommendations?? Dynaco (or maybe it was in the days of Dyna Kit) made a small integrated amp with output tubes not much larger than 12AX7. I think it was about 15wpc. The unit was in a case that looked much like a Dyna preamp except that it was deeper. Of course ... | |
| Effects of brading interconnect wire You say that the wires are a "tri-wire" configuration? Well then, since all the wires carry the same signal there is no interaction at all. | |
| Carver Power Amps I remember when Carver introduced the Phase Linear 300. "Three Hundred watts! You must be crazy!" is what they said.But Bob Carver's inventiveness is, I think, best exemplified, not by power amps (although his were certainly different) but by his ... | |
| CDs obsolete in 5 years? A memory device with no moving parts has been an objective for many years, and will soon be practical even for very large blocks of data like the digital representation of high bandwidth music. This is separate from the question of how the digital... | |
| Problem with black finish - ML Quest Z speakers Sounds like defective paint to me. This is happening a lot these days as EPA requiremnets force manufacturers to change the type of paint they use. The new Lycoming engine in our airplane had to be removed and sent back to the factory twice becaus... | |
| Are Terminals Necessary? Albertporter...As you imply, wire terminations instead of bare wire connections do make it much more convenient to make all the changes involved with cable evaluations. Therefore, to protect your bank account, I suggest hard soldered connections :) | |
| Wait a Minute Do those Cardas Caps Work sean...My point (FWIW) is that what Tandberg provided for their preamp was a dead short. Perhaps they knew this was OK for their particular circuit. What you say about other circuits being prone to oscillation may be true, although I have not seen... | |
| Wait a Minute Do those Cardas Caps Work sean...FWIW..my Tandberg preamp came with shorting plugs for the MM and the MC inputs (not high R values). However this preamp has completely separate phono stages for the two inputs (all the circuitry is duplicated) so there really is no chance o... |