georgehifi
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| Bi-amping Rules Its always better to use a better stereo amp than to use lesser monoblox Just to clarify a little on that. "It’s always better for sound quality to use a stereo amp if you have enough wattage, than to use "bridged" monoblocks of the same amp."As a... | |
| Dried up Ferrofluid? pops Thanks George, I believe Thiel does in fact have ferrofluid per Rob at Coherent Sound . This correlates now with what many older Thiel owners are now finding and starting threads saying their speakers are harsh and/or have no sparkle. Their ... | |
| MSB vs dCS Bartok I have made a choice and that is.........MSB Premier, standard issue, no upgrades. It should be here and up and running in 4 weeks.Cannot wait. 👍✔ You won’t listen to another non R2R Multibit dac again.But then you’ve had a taste already with the... | |
| How a pair of Mark Levinson ML2 stands with the best amps today ? Problems? Low power - read: low sensitivity speakers playing in large, deadening rooms, 25W in 8 ohms is not gonna cut it. Yep, great sounding amp to a given level. better driving 4ohm speakers then you’ve got 50w first 25 Class-A. A step further... | |
| Active line level crossover with subwoofer out - HELP perkri OP 👍✔ at minimal $ costing, and robing any of character at present he's getting now from the Spendor BC1’s Cheers George | |
| Active line level crossover with subwoofer out - HELP perkri OP I suspect, that the RCA Y-Splitter will cause an impedance imbalance At 300ohms output impedance the Quad 33 should be good to go perkri OP And I would need a DIN plug to 2 RCA’s - Pre is a Quad 33 :) Plenty of these around on ebay. ht... | |
| Active line level crossover with subwoofer out - HELP And as far as "His preamp does not have a subwoofer out." just use one or two of these better to have two subs. https://www.ebay.com/itm/AudioQuest-RCA-Male-to-Two-RCA-Female-Adapter/133357704249?hash=item1f0cbd1439:g:3CoAAOSwAbxeaHtT Cheers G... | |
| Active line level crossover with subwoofer out - HELP Don't know it'll be on their site somewhere, just ask. http://www.hlabs.com/products/crossovers/ Cheers George | |
| Active line level crossover with subwoofer out - HELP perkri He’s got Spendor BC1’s for a reason, for their organic sound when used just simply with source and amp.Don’t go sterilizing the sound by putting mini dsp and or digital xovers in the signal path, as they have lousy d/a converters in them an... | |
| Dried up Ferrofluid? Dumb question, do all tweeters have ferrofluid? No, you'll have to ask the manufacture if your does, it served two purposes, a way of getting heat away from the voice coil via the ferro fluid to the magnet which acts as a heatsink, also it serv... | |
| Dried up Ferrofluid? So, how does one know if their ferro fluid is no longer viable? The ferro fluid starts getting thicker after 10-15 years, especially in a hot environments or if driven hard, it becomes non linear (distorts) and yes as ljgerens said looses it's... | |
| Dried up Ferrofluid? Dried up Ferrofluid? I posted this up 6 months ago, why some were complaining about harsh Thiel tweeters that get non-linear distortions with sticky old Ferro Fluid that’s gone like tar, it has to be cleaned out, just don't add new fluid to a gumm... | |
| Why Does CD Sound So Good? I’ve got a MSB discrete dac if I play the same album via CD transport or friends streamers (making sure the streamer hasn't up the ante a db or two which some do with downloads).The Transport wins out for sound, it’s just got more body to it, whic... | |
| Amp and Preamp recommendations for Yamaha NS5000 He has not harassed you or anyone at all on this thread, he simply stated and questioned measurable fact about McIntosh transformer couple solid state amps. Since when, does McIntosh have lightning fast dynamics, and a high damping factor ? This i... | |
| MSB vs dCS Bartok Does MSB have that similar propulsive way with rock ? Oh yeah, R2R has a great boogie factor and drive, makes you think it DR is far better than DS, even if the specs show the opposite.Cheers George |