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| High Pass a hard-to-drive speaker - Now Easy???? Good hi-powered amps are invariably expensive. But NOT, by definition, compromised as you seem to believe. In my book, expense is as good a reason as any to avoid them if you can.Yr question: In theory, yes, you'd be gaining in energy required. I ... | |
| Wilson Spikes Geeez, I'm way behind the times...! | |
| Kharma Midi vs. Sonus Faber Stradivari Amati did you listen the AnniversariosYes -- but only briefly at a dealer. Powered by YBA Passion (the small stereo). They seemed to have a leaner lower midrange than their homage brothers (i.e. truer, more realistic -- I don't mean lacking). Also seeme... | |
| Wilson Spikes Relax: it's only 63 euro/spike and, you know, these spikes are very special. The alloy used is proprietary, it's cryoed as well, and the cryo process is proprietary.More importantly, the spikes are specifically and individually machined for each p... | |
| Kharma Midi vs. Sonus Faber Stradivari Amati *I would definitely choose Stradivari over Amati.*"Musical" presentation: difficult point. What do you mean by "musical"? IF, on the warm side of neutral, yes the Strads could be that vs the Kharma -- remember the drive units on the Kharma are har... | |
| Kharma Midi Exquisite vs MBL101E Alectiong, I have heard both spkrs you mention -- but at different times so can't offer a reliable comparison opinion.The Exquisites sound is well documented. (BTW, Avalon & Marten Desing are two other brands that use similar driver complement... | |
| I had my ear talked off about the synergy between. Spectral & Eidolon sound good together whether with a Wadia or a whatever good source... But then, Eidolons also sounded good with Goldmund, Symphonic Line, PLinius, KR, YBA -- to name a few brands. Likewise, a Spectral was great in powering G... | |
| using two Mcintosh MC2102 in mono parallel mode Steve, 0,7ohm looks incredibly low to me. R U certain of that figure? If so, you'll have to mod the amp to take that sort of load (unless this has been provided for already), and, geberally, tube amps are extremely unhappy with very low loads.I'm ... | |
| Weak point in this analog system ? The Tacco was slightly better (slightly more neutral & slightly more extended -- probably better mechanical compatibility) than both the cheap Morch and the Clearaudio. OTOH, the beginner's Schroder was better. Please note that in these cases ... | |
| 16 ohms speakers- 8 ohms output amp Well, diyhifisupply.com has a few kits. Hagerman in the US has others. Look at JPO's site, you'll find many refs.But again, I cannot agree more with d-k: attack the spkrs for now, the amp can come later. Enjoy! | |
| The last 5 ????? In his excellent post, Jadem adopts an holistic approach to a system (i.e. NOT focusing on specific sources of improvement: cable or room or...) -- and talks about quantifying improvement. The exponential -- rather than linear -- explanation is ve... | |
| 16 ohms speakers- 8 ohms output amp Laurent: 2600 euro for the Fertins???? And I thought Supravox fields were expensive!Why are you insisting in a branded amp (Cary, etc)? A competently made diy (or a local hobbyist's product) will easily serve your purpose and for many years to com... | |
| Can a monitor sound like a floorstander?? Audiokicks, I for one believe you ARE on topic. However, the integration and other scary issues you referred to are less problematic than you present.Also, the smaller ("monitor" size) spkr will perform nicely in classical music and for reasonable... | |
| Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 7 vs. Kharma 3.2 Have to remember Focal tioxid tweeters are $20 and the Accuton/Scan speak mids are $175. So what are you paying for reallyI'm not contesting the point you're making & I second the usefulness of Focal's built-in DSP.However the point about pric... | |
| Weak point in this analog system ? Ad010685 -- phono first. You mention (Marzio's?) Euridice and a Linto... If it's the Euridice I think it is, it's in a different leadue than the Linto -- excellent though the Linto may be. Since you're diy-ing I would suggest that the Euridice, wi... |