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| Stand Alone Super Tweeter for Revel F208? It may be a good time to talk definitions. Air to me is different than sparkle and scintillation. Air feels more natural, like you are hearing the room itself. Sparkle/Scintilation feels like a Disney / Fuji film kind of extra color added. I agree... | |
| Mono Blocks on a Budget, is it possible? One aspect of monoblocks not mentioned: Channel separation. In truth, not sure how much this matters. Some great sounding stereo amplifiers score rather poorly (-67 dB or more). But this is an advantage. The theoretically near perfect isolation of... | |
| Stand Alone Super Tweeter for Revel F208? Change the tweeter caps to Mundorf Supreme Silver in Oil. And.... bleah! I do not like that sound, but that will give you what you are looking for. Best,E | |
| Crown XLS 1502.... real life test. I believe the Ice Edge still uses multiple chips for control and driving while the Drivecore integrates it all into one, both seem to have had the goal or reducing component count on the board through. You are right, but I don't think the count m... | |
| Mono Blocks on a Budget, is it possible? If you feel like getting your feet wet in Class D, and a little DIY at the same time, how about a pair of nCore amplifiers? https://www.hypexshop.com/I was going to recommend the ICEpower 250 ASPs but they seem to have left ebay. Best,E | |
| Crown XLS 1502.... real life test. The big thing with Drivecore is that it integrates almost the entire amp onto one chip. Very interesting! :) This is along the lines of Ice Edge. I think TI Has also done a lot of work besides what they do for Crown/Harman. I mean, don't they hav... | |
| Crown XLS 1502.... real life test. So I found a white paper on Class-I. It seems, simply, like a balanced Class D. http://educypedia.karadimov.info/library/137234.pdfWhat I cannot find anything about is what exactly "DriveCore" is. Maybe this includes the reactive power handling ci... | |
| Crown XLS 1502.... real life test. Besides the usual suspects, there are a couple of companies who have taken on some sort of hybrid approach, in some cases closely resembling earlier work by Bob Carver. NuForce, Yamaha’s EEEngin and NAD which uses a curiously unusual hybrid design... | |
| What is meant when someone says a component is lacking soul Usually by this I think of electronics which excel in some measures, like low noise and distortion but sound somehow musically thin or compressed and lacking any sense of warmth or strength. Like using it sucks the joy or feeling out. Really good ... | |
| Crown XLS 1502.... real life test. Hey @roxy54 The Crown amplifiers use their own DriveCore technology. They call it Class I or BCA (Balanced Current Amplifier)https://www.crownaudio.com/en/technologyWithout seeing the schematics or at least a block diagram it is very difficult to ... | |
| GIK - Free 3D Acoustics modelling! Hi @bdp24 - It wasn’t 1 bad experience, it was two dozen bad experiences all at once! :) And perhaps for context I should have added that the previous California Audio Show was the opposite. Every room well treated with ASC was among the best. So ... | |
| GIK - Free 3D Acoustics modelling! GIK has a lot of very pretty things including art print based absorbers and soffit traps (bass traps) in designer fabrics. My last experience with ASC was not very good. They sponsored the show in Oakland and the rooms sounded terrible. One note b... | |
| Good Speaker within a budget of USD10,000 OH, almost forgot, a great ESL brand, Sanders Sound! | |
| Direct Servo Subwoofer Suggestions Um, I care a lot less about servos than the quality of the built in room correction. Right now the best built in room correction is by JL Audio. Bad speaker and room integration is 1,000x more audible than a few percentage points of low order dist... | |
| Good Speaker within a budget of USD10,000 1 - Budget 10% to 20% of that on room acoustics. 2 - Brands, consider Monitor Audio, Revel, JBL, Focal, B&W. All different sounding. 3 - Also, think about what type of speaker. - Full range?- 2.5 way? (the size of the room may make this a goo... |