eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| Do you ever use the balance on your pre amp? One advantage of having a center speaker is that center sounds (particularly vocals) are properly located without need for ultra-precise gain matching of 2 channel signals. | |
| Anybody play any musical instruments........... I quit playing my violin because I couldn't stand listening to the noise I made with it! Somehow I never could match the likes of Itzhak Perlman, and the effort was discouraging. | |
| If you had to pay full retail, would you...??? There is a saying..."To travel hopefully is better than to arrive". That probably applies to the audiophile's quest. | |
| If you had to pay full retail, would you...??? Yes...if the stuff is fairly priced to begin with. Think Magnepan. | |
| Bose Wave Music system Avideo...Ah, yes. But would they all fit inconspicuously on a small table? In some cases that would be important. | |
| Where to rectify Rectify and filter in the PS chassis. Filter again near the amplifier board. The capacitors near the amplifier provide low impedance DC power (unaffected by the chassis-to-chassis wire). | |
| magnepan mmgs-buy zero autoformers or stands 1st? Going back to autotransformers...presumably you would use them to make the 4 ohm MMG look like an 8 ohm load. If you had a solid state amplifier this would reduce the power delivery of the amp. (Macintosh used autotransformers the other way around... | |
| magnepan mmgs-buy zero autoformers or stands 1st? Tvad...The manual for MG1.6 does talk about break in. What is says is that the LF extension will gradually increase until it meets spec. That is exactly what happened (and I can tell because I have a spectrum analyser that shows me the frequency r... | |
| magnepan mmgs-buy zero autoformers or stands 1st? Rather than listen to all these opinions, I suggest that you beg, borrow, or steal a higher powered SS amp and listen to what it does with the MMGs. Then decide for yourself. But don't decide on your small tube amp without even listening to anythi... | |
| Bose Wave Music system The owner's pride expressed by Wave Music System owners strikes me as being quite similar to the feelings of many High End audio owners about their precious equipment. It's said that in a restaurant the "sizzle" sells the steak. I guess that a goo... | |
| magnepan mmgs-buy zero autoformers or stands 1st? Cooch...Your tube amp already has an output rransformer. Why add another one? Put your $ into a better amp. | |
| How Much Push/Pull Tube Power for Maggies Cooch...Actually, Maggies, MMGs anyway, sound great, EVEN when driven by only 40 watts. But, there is more for you to discover some day. | |
| Balanced SET? North Audio When stereo was new there was a brief interest in converting mono amps to stereo, without adding any output tubes or power supply. (Yes really). My memory of the circuit details is a bit dim, but it involved connecting the center tap of the output... | |
| Is it time to see a shrink? Mrtennis...Back in 8/9/06 you remarked how music heard on a table radio can be as moving as music on a superb audio system. The mind fills in what's missing. Very true.This effect is most evident in movies. Some passionate love scenes in old movie... | |
| Balanced SET? North Audio Sounds like push-pull to me. Or maybe bridged. A gimmick IMHO. |