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| Best of all worlds?????????? What's the rest of your gear? How is the listening room set up? Can't just throw up your hands and blame only the speakers. BTW, if you're looking for an "excellent overall speaker" at that price range, check out the Thiel 2.4 also. | |
| Tube myths Joint Army Navy vs Non Joint Army Navy I don't know why or where this "myth" originated, but there are instances where, at least from my experience, the military version of a tube far outclassed the civilian variant: the Sylvania 6SN7 JAN CHS VT-231 and the RCA JAN 2A3 grey plates. Fro... | |
| Help with Theta Gen Va? I had a similar situation. When I sent mine in to Theta to be upgraded to the Va, I dropped a note in with the unit and they replaced the xfmr for free. Buzz no more. | |
| How do Xover works? One capacitor, one inductor and one resistor indicates a first order crossover. The resistor is probably a 4-ohm because (maybe) one driver is probably 4-ohm and the other 8-ohm. The resistor is in series with the 4-ohm driver to give a nominal 8-... | |
| What are OA2 tubes and why are there more gear The OA2's are used in voltage regulators. One setup is to offer a 150-volt anchor to the cathode of the regulating tube. Another, it's used as a straight regulator. Usually the regulator itself is a dual-triode and each cathode of the regulator ha... | |
| How much Power do speakers really use ??????? Let's say you have two amps - one at 50 wpc and another at 5,000 wpc - with identical speakers and listening rooms. If you play both at a certain volume level, say 80 db SPL, both amps will provide the same power. However, during transient peaks, ... | |
| Were to get fuse box for dedicated line? ... I was assuming a remote panel. Installing a parallel, or subfeed panel, is a legitimate installation provided that the subfeed panel is properly bonded, grounded and supplied with neutral lugs for each circuit. In other words, it has to be a U... | |
| Were to get fuse box for dedicated line? The reason you're having a problem finding a load center type fuse box is because (I'm pretty sure) they're not made anymore - they're sort of like NOS, surplus only. Where are you going to grab the power for your fuse box? If it's from the main h... | |
| changing tubes in my phono causes hum ? Your phono section may have AC tube heaters instead of the (preferred) DC. Some 12AX7's don't like AC and will let you know by humming. | |
| How hot do a pair of Pass Labs X600 amps run ? As long as the heat sink temperature is not excessive, say above 120-130 deg F, it's normal for a pair of Class A amps to run warm enough to heat the room. When I run mine all day in the winter, the rest of the rooms in the house drop 10 degrees s... | |
| What's the most important speaker attribute...and For me, it's not so much a particular spec or trait but instead it's can I tell the difference, on a recording, between a Gibson and a Martin, a Guarneri and a Stradivari, etc. The most reasonably priced speaker that can do this, irrespective of l... | |
| I need an explanation of "damping factor". When an amplifier sends a signal to the speaker, the electrical signal energizes the coil and causes the driver to move. When the signal stops, there is no more electrical energy to the coil; however the driver keeps moving through inertia - it ca... | |
| Tubes with Thiel CS-3.6's? has anyone had success? If anyone's still interested, playing a Rudolph Serkin Beethoven piano sonata CD, the average SPL at the listening position (9 feet away, 13ft x 25ft x 9ft room) with the preamp pot at 12'oclock (50%) was 65 db with 71 db peak ("C" weighted scale,... | |
| Tubes with Thiel CS-3.6's? has anyone had success? Zaikesman: I am not having anyone on... I would never do that, especially here. I purchased the 2A3 amps to use with my DIY single-driver speakers I'm building. In the meantime, I hooked them up to my Thiels - yes, they do make more than enough SP... | |
| Tubes with Thiel CS-3.6's? has anyone had success? I use a pair of Wright-Sound WPA3.5 (2A3) amps with my 3.6's. No problem filling up my room, and no problem at all with the sound quality. I listen mainly to classical (string quartets, small scale orchestral, and jazz).But - I have a CAT preamp (... |