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| Electrovoice 18" Woofer: smallish Magnet; only 2.3 ohms? did I forget to say I am not looking for more bass, it's just ..... | |
| Electrovoice 18" Woofer: smallish Magnet; only 2.3 ohms? rodmangood thinking, my son’s suv is gassed up!I wrote EV, let's see what they say. I also asked what currently available 18" woofer could be substituted for the 18WS..................................Have a laugh: I just instantly schemed this: mi... | |
| Fear of volume control room shook, if not exaggerating, that's when Fear of Hearing Damage should set in.it's worth learning about Fletcher & Munson's discoveries, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contourIt has always been poorly: named, implemented, mis... | |
| Ideas to improve my system I agree, by all means keep an AVR and surround speakers for any Video based program.Then improve it for everything: Movies; Video/Music Programs; or Music only (via Web, Cable, Media) via a separate ’FRONT STEREO SYSTEM’You need 1. FSS. ’Front Ste... | |
| Help! New TT skipping badly.... amazon, prime, why not order 12 bargain 'solutions', try em, return em, .... surprise, my dinky iso-blocks worked, I expected to use them for something else.a certain density, which we know not, should solve it 'enough' I hope.I hope you get lucky | |
| turntable I should shut up about wood, my last postthese people, many others, make wood bases to change the appearance of ’too modern’ looking TT,https://www.ebay.com/itm/284248947149?hash=item422e8eb9cd:g:qPAAAOSwjYtgba-Yor others 'modernize' old one's loo... | |
| Is there a high quality transport that doubles as a Blue Ray player? I chose an Oppo BDP-105, dual processors, transport, CD, SACD, Videohttps://www.oppodigital.com/support/blu-ray-bdp-105/It has 'Pure Audio' mode (I don't hear a difference), and optional volume control (handy to 'generally match' volume of it to T... | |
| An ideal (minimal) 2.1 setup A 77" image, movies, only 2 channel? At least consider having HT Bypass feature for future optionsWe just thrashed out how to have an excellent ’FRONT’ 2 channel music system, like what you are planning,and have an AVR for movies. AVR uses that hi... | |
| Electrovoice 18" Woofer: smallish Magnet; only 2.3 ohms? rodmanI seek active discouragement, knowledge always a push/pull, experience from others here 'smartly sought'.from the temptation of a pair of Model EV-Six's only 1hr, 20 minutes away. https://www.ebay.com/itm/154513478054 I was thinking of bu... | |
| Re-tubing a McIntosh power amp re-reading your initial post, it seems like you, after reading, are concerned about ’probable failure’, and don’t want to ’wait and see’.I get that, I always want a spare set handy, and I understand staying with KT88’s, seems wise.So, what ’non-ex... | |
| Re-tubing a McIntosh power amp I found this 'state of the tube industry 2016'https://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?44432-State-of-the-Vacuum-Tube-Industry-2016is there an updated version somewhere? | |
| Electrovoice 18" Woofer: smallish Magnet; only 2.3 ohms? OK, it's a 18WS, used in both the Model EV-Six (4 way, 8 ohm system) 5 position resistor based optional frequency curveshttps://products.electrovoice.com/binary/E-V%20Six%20EDS.pdfandRoyal 400 (3 way, 2 AT-37 L-Pads, 8 ohm system)https://products.... | |
| Electrovoice 18" Woofer: smallish Magnet; only 2.3 ohms? Vintage Electro-Voice Info, click on any individual imagehttp://www.hifilit.com/hifilit/Electro-Voice/Electro-Voice.htmsays the K versions were 3.2 ohms, "for Klipsch K Type Baffles" | |
| Electrovoice 18" Woofer: smallish Magnet; only 2.3 ohms? the prior 12/15/18 W's and WK's used huge alnico magnetsthe 18" 1/2" thick foam driver uses a ceramic magnet, here are decent photos of a Model EV-Six with that foam wooferhttp://www.fisherdoctor.com/ev.html | |
| Electrovoice 18" Woofer: smallish Magnet; only 2.3 ohms? here is a 18Wk (see the small k stamped into the label) from a Patricianhttps://www.ebay.com/p/28028667707?iid=254883146782 |