eldartford
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| Can pro amps possibly sound good? Crown, QSC, etc I have three CarverPro ZR1600 amps and five Channel Island D200 amps, and each set of amps has been used in a multichannel system using Maggie MG1.6 speakers. The ZR1600 is juat as good as the D200 (which is a well regarded "audiophile" amp) and d... | |
| low tracking force cartridge recommendations? Markd51...Spending $74000 for ANY phono cartridge...now that's ludicrous!! I went back to a Shure V15 after a spell with various MC cartridges. The MCs were nice, but not enough better than the Shure to justify all the hassles, for example stylus ... | |
| Apogee vs Soundlab I have always liked electrostatics, but worry about their dust collecting properties. So I choose Maggies, and they certainly come close to ES in sound. | |
| fuses instead of breakers? An insurance adjuster (while investigating the lightning strike on my house) told me why breakers have replaced fuses. With fuses, if they burned out, people would put in a penny, or jumper around a cartridge-type with a wire. Insurance companies ... | |
| Heifetz' Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Classic Rec Jdaniel13...Try Oistrach. | |
| Maggies and rolled off treble I have MG1.6, and a spectrum analyser to determine frequency response. The 1.6 does roll off the top 1/3 octave a few dB, which I can correct using an equalizer. Other than this top 1/3 octave the high end range is really flat, as per the Magnepla... | |
| Have you noticed that... Listening to music can be very enjoyable. However, technical interest in audio reproduction equipment is also an interesting hobby, and there is no reason not to enjoy both. To do the technical stuff properly you need to build, or at least modify,... | |
| digital Amp. Going green I have CI D200 amps (five of them) which replaced CarverPro ZR1600 amps (three of them) in my multichannel system. The D200 amps are fine-sounding, and not too expensive. However, I don't think that they are significantly (if at all) better than t... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt Rodman99999...The deal with the flat mic amp acting as a phono preamp is that for the tweeter/midrange all you need to do is roll off the boosted highs of the raw signal. Why boost the low end, only to cut it later in a crossover. Of course the wo... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt R: I guess you are an eqaphobiac. Do you play your LPs with a flat microphone preamp so as to avoid that nasty RIAA equalization? (By the way you might try it. Seriously, you might find the result interesting). And how do you identify recordings t... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt Rodman99999...Agreed that the Behringer DEQ2496 RTA is nice. I bought my first one for the RTA feature, intending to use another analog equalizer in the signal path. However, the overall effect of the DEQ2496 equalization was so good that I scrapp... | |
| Kef Kube equalizer If you can't get at the line level signal, via a TAPE loop or a PRE OUT/AMP IN interface I don't see how you could use an equalizer. Unless, of course, you are willing to modify the receiver to provide the connections.However, I have had very good... | |
| McIntosh Amp Ratings Like any amp with an output transformer (or autotransformer) power delivery will be the same into any load for which there is an output tap. So the "double down" rule does not apply, but neither does the "divide-by-two) rule when you go to an 8 oh... | |
| Great systems in butt-ugly rooms As the saying goes..."Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". | |
| Hyperion HPS-938 speakers Hawkeye43...There is no "correct" way for the driver cone to move for a + voltage input. There are good arguments for both directions being correct, but it really doesn't matter because if you think that absolute phase is important you can always ... |