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| Bridging Electrocompaniet aw250r hiendmmoe Be aware with bridging, yes you gain watts if you need to go louder, but you loose too.Less damping factor (the ability to control the bass driver) Less current drive into low impedance’s.Higher distortion.So unless you need more watts ... | |
| Advice on replacing 12 in woofer in Martin Logan Monolith III's Steve, here is Jo Fo's front speakers, as you can see his centre something his subs are not in the picture.http://www.jonathanfoulkes.com/images/Animation%20FullFrontViewFlipBook.gif Cheers George | |
| I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it? Almost 100%. from what I’ve seen none have left Class A and gone into A/B, I think a manufacturer would be mad to do that with a preamp, do you know one that does?Cheers George | |
| I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it? Class A preamp All active preamps are Class A, I don't know of one that's Class A/B or B.Cheers George | |
| I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it? Music First Audio Baby Reference. It was truly excellent, neutral, transparent, detailed, but. I felt I was missing some dynamics Being a passive and seeing what that source signal had to go through, I can understand why it was missing dynamic... | |
| Advice on replacing 12 in woofer in Martin Logan Monolith III's No it's not, as I found. You'll just have to do it yourself as I did, wish I saved it all those years ago.Cheers George | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? spoogemonkey How old is too old for a Dac?Been out of the loop for a good bit, and wondering how much things have changed in digital. In other words, how old is too old for a dac?If just listening to CD's (pcm 16/44 or 24/96) or DXD then go f... | |
| What is most important part of a system? What is most important part of a system?I remember reading someone saying that the most important part of a system was the source. I thought "Wrong! Speakers are the most important". Now, I have changed my mind. Source is the most important part.... | |
| Advice on replacing 12 in woofer in Martin Logan Monolith III's That will make quite a difference.Best to lay the Monolith on it's back take the driver out and stuffing, fill with bean bag styro bean fill, empty all into a known litre/gallons container (I use a 20lt contaner I had) to get the exact volume. The... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... "I paid $120 for it so it must do something, and by god I should hear it or I made an expensive mistake." +1 It’s called "expectation bias" Credit to Ralph (Atmasphere), for a great saying. and to note that fuses have meaningful "direction" becau... | |
| Advice on replacing 12 in woofer in Martin Logan Monolith III's If you do raise the xover point to 300hz you get the problem that many speakers have of having two drivers doing the critical midrange. This is even much more accentuated with ESL’s. This is why a Monolith with a 150hz xover sounds so much better ... | |
| Advice on replacing 12 in woofer in Martin Logan Monolith III's Sorry Tim but you clearly have no experience with mating esl’s which are very fast (low mass) compared to a dynamic drivers (much higher mass), as there are big problems at the xover point to get them to seamlessly sound coherent and it is an art ... | |
| Advice on replacing 12 in woofer in Martin Logan Monolith III's stevepa Just listen to the Eminence ones till you get some SV-12's, two of us, Jon Fo and I both looked for a replacement for a very long time and the SV-12 was the one. Jon Fo later did raise the xover point to some 300hz? to take away some o... | |
| Advice on replacing 12 in woofer in Martin Logan Monolith III's I have many time added mass to raise qts so that a woofer would go down better in sealed box. Adding mass to the cone does lower the FS, but you didn't mention it also raises the distortion (slows down it's reaction time) at the higher end of t... | |
| Why Single-Ended? grannyringFact XLR is not better necessarily for common or usual runs of 1/2 meter to 1.5 meter. +1, In fact it’s worse in many cases as I outlined before." Many amps, preamps, and sources have fake balanced inputs and outputs In that they just p... |