georgehifi
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| Putting your components inbetween your speakers. I do not like an image and soundstage that deep with my system. Hang on lets get this right, this is not a false image/depth impression, it doesn’t happen with every recording, only with ones that have been recorded with it, others can sound as f... | |
| Firestone Audio Tobby vs Musical Fidelity Trivista 21 DAC If implemented well the Firestone, as it uses a later PCM1794 dac which is hybrid Multibit/Delta Sigma and to me sounds better than the Trivista’s earlier PCM1738 Delta Sigma dac.Cheers George | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. You state "All passives basically suck". You have a problem sunshine that you need to address before you can make such a statement.You you say your power amp gain is only 15db, this is half of what most amps are and is not passive friendly. Who s... | |
| Gryphon vs. D'Agostino Here are the actual independent tested results of the D'Agostino's amps 405W into 8 ohms640W into 4 ohms 1115w into 2 ohmsNot doubling as manufacturer specs want you to believe above, but still every respectable, for an idea of current ability.No... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. Your statement " All passives basically suck" is your own problem with your system/amp gain structure. Live with it.Cheers George | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD mattnshilp OPWho would buy a total piece of Schitt like that?!!Sorry. Had to be done!! 😇 david_ten Matt, You may have intended it as a joke, but it does not read like a joke. I can see how the second line "Sorry, Had to be done!!" would lead ... | |
| Putting your components inbetween your speakers. For imaging and depth perspective there should be nothing between the speaker, and the back wall between the speakers should be as far back as possible.I can say is Neville Thiele (rip) taught me this, and the result was a no brainer, so much so I... | |
| Gryphon vs. D'Agostino What are you talking about? Most Wilsons need an amp with good current ability, an indication of an amp to give good current is it’s ability to almost double it’s wattage for each halving of load impedance, from 8 down to 4ohmsEG:100w-8ohms200w-4... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD mattnshilp OP790 posts01-21-2018 5:21amWho would buy a total piece of Schitt like that?!!Sorry. Had to be done!! 😇 All class Matt, wrap it in a glitzy $kkkkkkk chassis, and you’d be all over it like a rash. Sorry. Had to be done!! 😇 | |
| Quad ESL-63 and low-powered amps; Sun Audio, Atma The 63’s have 4ohm load from 6khz-12khz and then an even lower (epdr) of 5ohms combind with -40 degree phase at 14khz. This indicates an amp that needs to be able to drive 4ohms as it’s best feature, not as a secondary feature. Which means (for tu... | |
| Gryphon vs. D'Agostino Gryphon vs. D'Agostino I love both to drive the very hard loads of most Wilsons, especially the Alexia .9ohm (epdr) in the lower bass.My money (if I had it) would be on the Gryphon Antillion Evo or better. As these do the doubling of wattage t... | |
| Cary 805 b & C or 211 amp 300b tube on the Cary amp 805c or 211 is a driver tube No, the 300b is not the driver for the 805/211/845 tube, it's the driver for the inter-stage transformer which drives the above output tubes.Cheers George | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. My F5 has about 15.5dB of gain. Say yes!!! about half normal power amps.Which is very low for a poweramp, and why your experience with passives is understandable, and why you need the gain of an active pre. As Nelson said: " "We’ve got lots of g... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. All passives basically suck. Your First Watt amps have very little or no gain, I can see this maybe your reason behind this statement.But that’s your opinion, and you are entitled to it. It is a totally incorrect statement if there is no impedan... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. passive preamps commonly suffer from their own problems that can easily affect the sound, Rarely, not commonly, around 10% of the time there can be mismatched impedance's when the source has tube output stage which is too high in output impedan... |