elliottbnewcombjr
Responses from elliottbnewcombjr
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. chakster thanks. as usual, I wish you lived next door so I could hear your variety of speakers, equipment, ....160 ohm resistor across the terminals. any idea what/why? | |
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. mijostyn thanks for your comments.turns out eight 24 gauge is equiv to 15 gauge. any other factors of cat 5 involved with 'inductance' concerns? | |
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. millercarbon thanks for your comments. as I don't have power concerns, I'm sticking with 16 ohms for the inherent reduced distortion involved. | |
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. atmasphere thanks for your clarity of these issues. I'm sticking with 16 ohm tap.remaining questions:1. how importance is bias to sound? (I don't care about heat or tube life).......................2. speaker cable inductance ..... gauge ____ a... | |
| Do speaker wires matter I bet those speakers sound great!. I would like to hear them.Efficiency: your speakers are very low efficiency. 83 db/1w/1m means they ONLY make 83db sound volume when given 1 watt measured 1 meter away, They need far more power than your Marantz,... | |
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. Am I missing something? In the video he didn't mention sound QUALITY at all. Nor any comment on AMP performance/distortion differences. His comments are about the SPEAKER, not the amp. He emphasizes, it's his choice for his high performance, hi... | |
| Near field monitor advice please I reconfigured my office, and got a used pair of B&W D100i. I have them horizontal on bookshelves, seated ear level, opposite my desk, flanking my monitor for imaging, paired with a self powered sub. Office never sounded betterhttps://speakerh... | |
| McIntosh MX 119 Preamplifier vs Adcom GFP 750 Many, Many Tubes generally last 10,000 hours. Military Specs much longer. http://blog.hughes-and-kettner.com/does-it-pay-to-regularly-swap-tubes/ "Here’s a little arithmetic for the worst-case scenario, or as we musicians call it, gigging life:Two... | |
| It's the stylus... advanced stylus definitely produces audible improvement, but it must be said: I/we can beat a CD with an Elliptical Stylus. Even on a ’not too special’ TT.AFTER all alignments/adjustments are done right. Alignment is the primary route to success I... | |
| Recommendation for a replacement speaker cable Many years ago, after lots of reading cable research, I decided to believe in the detriment of ’skin effect’, frequencies traveling at minutely different speeds at the inside or outside surfaces of a wire.Solution: small diameter solid core strand... | |
| Technics SL-1200GR setup question OP, I think you are fine.I now have two arms with VTA on the fly, adjust while listening, and, like prior TT arms, I find a slight tilt down is best. Prior Audio Technica TT was the same way, arm at zero/lowest had a slight tilt down. Sounded terr... | |
| How old are you? 72 | |
| Phono stage or pre Amp? which is most important. I would think nicer thoughts about your equipment,The only thing 'cheap' (simply inexpensive) is the cartridge, I would suggest keeping it for a spare and getting a better one now or soon.Stylus shape is important, definite audible differences, ha... | |
| Dual subs and or speaker uograde Nice speakers, however, I am not a fan of ports. If any, front facing for direct radiation of bass fundamentals and their overtones supporting definition/imaging. Not indirect diffuse multi-reflected sound waves as you have now.You want to test/li... | |
| Phono stage and Cartridge for Technics 1210 GR I'm sure we will learn something from Lou's response.I didn’t say so, however, in my office, with bookshelf speakers horizontally at seated ear level, on shelves at he sides and 4 feet beyond my monitor, they sound better with the tweeters to the ... |