irvrobinson
Responses from irvrobinson
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Unsound, I did miss the $2K limit. That makes it difficult... and my previous post useless. ;-) | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Foster-9, if you're looking for used amps there's a lot of selection:Any Krell amp. There are several Evolution 302s available, as the 302e just came out. The older FBPs are great too. Any higher power than a 300-series amp just seems like overkil... | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? So, are you saying here that you have a tube amp in your future?? :)-------------I can't imagine it. ;-) But after reading your website and reading so many of your posts I wish it wasn't such a PITA to listen to what your amps, which have a design... | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Why would I want less power? I think the better question is why would I accept less. My reasons:1. Even 110db peaks are really, really loud. I'd like to hear for a lifetime.2. Most audiophile speakers will have significant distortion at these volu... | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Oh yeah, and a correction of my multitasking math, assuming a speaker with 89db sensitivity at 2.83v, and assuming a 4 ohm impedance, 600w/ch does not give you clip-free 120db+ peaks, you'd get about only 114db peaks or so.Boy I'm stupid today. | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Well, Tvad, since I assume I'm the root of your urge to leave, I think you're over-reacting. For one thing, in the interest of full disclosure, I was multitasking when I typed in that response, and while (I think) everything I said was correct I a... | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Isn't clipping an even worse consequence than unbalanced frequency response alone?---------------Yes, absolutely. But unless you listen at *very* high levels (like averaging higher than 95db) most audiophile amps (100w+ per channel) with most spea... | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Yes- audio equipment does not care what kind of music you play on it. An amp with a low output impedance does not have a frequency response that varies with a speaker's impedance.That depends on how the speaker is designed. Take a look athttp://ww... | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Tvad writes:Well, I'm of the opinion that it matters based on what I've experienced in my system using speakers that had an uneven impedance curve.Relating back to what Unsound stated in his previous post, the reduced power output into higher load... | |
| Mark Levinson 390S reprogramming Don't you have an owners manual? It sounds like you could have the wrong input selected or the wrong output selected. If you don't have a owners manual go here and download one:http://marklevinson.com/downloads/index.asp | |
| Mark Levinson 390S reprogramming Then I don't understand your question. Can you be more specific? | |
| Mark Levinson 390S reprogramming I assume you're talking about the drawer mechanism. If so:Start with the power, and if possible have the drawer stopped half open.While holding the STOP/DRAWER button in, turn the power on. The unit will display start-up information, then "CALIBRA... | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A Well, Raquel, I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree, because I'm not in the market for a $28K amp, and if that's what it takes to beat a solid state amp I'm going to have to be denied.Analog... tubes... feedback is bad... high-order cro... | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A Mcreyn, give me a break. +/- 2db is almost certainly audible, -80db of distortion almost certainly isn't. Speaker vendors have their own unproven theories, like phase and time coherence. To quote Richard V, "they just sound better". Well, of cours... | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A No, Raquel, I'm not thinking like back in the '70s... I'm thinking that the tube amp community needs to get off of the bogus negative feedback, high-order distortion, you-can't measure-it / you-don't-know-what-to-measure bs. Paraphrasing Einstein ... |