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| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. Consider future system changes. If you limit yourself to choices of high sensitivity/efficient speakers, then, now and/or future, you will be able to use lower power amps successfully. Then your amp choices become many, opportunities for a great d... | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... erik,does that mean a stronger input signal, from a preamp with more gain (less attenuation), boosted by amps +28db will result in higher volume output, especially important for lower sensitivity speakers like OP is asking about? | |
| Whats playing on your system today? LP fans might find this interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linn_Records I think I requested it before it was released, an offer by Linn to promote their new Linn Records, and Linn sent me this for free. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? amp 'new to me', it's a used amp, MK1 to get the 16 ohm taps. Newer versions make tube bias both easy and safe. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? I just bought a new integrated tube amp, Cayin A88T, so out come the set of music to see what it can do:1. Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light Til Dawn (CD) (her voice better be right, and strong bass) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Light_%27til_Daw... | |
| can you add tone controls to a primaluna HP integrated amp BEFORE:I advise getting a sound meter and studying how to use it in various locations in your listening area. Then, move your speakers around a bit, keep checking, before adding tone controls. You will be ready, knowing what frequencies you want t... | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... the relationship of strong or stronger signal going from preamp into an amp, and whether the amp can therefore produce more power for low sensitivity speakers (or any) has not been answered.I do not know for sure, but Isuspect the amp cannot produ... | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... volume control of tape line level signal directly to amp:It is not good to use the tape recorder's volume control, because, you want the strongest un-distorted signal off the tape (furthest from the noise), The meters help you do this, you can go ... | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... forgot this link to phono eq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization | |
| Preamps... understanding volume... they amplify, and they attenuate. using simple round #'s, a bit of history. Legacy equipment/terms are in use but ....1. original mono sources (radio tuners, ceramic phono cartridges) provided strong enough signals directly to amplifiers, let's s... | |
| 2000-2500 USD budget for an integrated amplifier. Do amplifiers sound the same? :) You already know it is the speakers and room interactions; or headphones which are speakers without room interactions.Digital: I agree, properly matched to other gear and the speaker's impedance and very importantly to the speaker's efficiency, ne... | |
| Buy a pair of ten year old $40,000 speakers for $4,000 or new ones at that price point? Let's assume you already have a darn good system, i.e. speaker choice that sound darn good in your room. Beyond your budget 'might' give 'better' results. Oh boy, what a deal! You skipped the first question, even free, will they be 'better'? Likel... | |
| Streaming vs. CD good advice. 24 bit originals makes sense. I will gather some knowledge now. | |
| Streaming vs. CD three_easy_payments382 posts06-11-2019 1:15pmstreaming services like Qobuz offer three levels of audio quality:- MP3 320 KBPS (compressed like Spotify)- FLAC 16-BIT / 44.1 KHZ (this is CD quality)- FLAC 24-BIT UP TO 192 KHZ (hi-res, better ... | |
| What is the best solid state amplifier you have ever heard? Memory Lane Once Again1967, my new Fisher 200T Transistor Receiver, It was "Transistors to the Rescue" then. I was 18 and in college.I went from a suitcase portable: flip down turntable with detaching speakers I took from my brother to my first de... |