jeffreybehr
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| 4 ohm 8 ohm Eldartford is correct; driving the speakers from any tap will damage neither the amp nor the speakers. The voltage delivered to the speakers (and the sound-output level) will increase with each step up the impedance taps, but the amp still won't d... | |
| Ground Loop Question I have a similar problem, with audio humming caused by several-different devices IF the 3-wire powercords are plugged into 3-wire outlets. My solution is as above--float the ground pin with some kind of cheater plug. While you're doing this, try t... | |
| Someone please explain the logic of upgrades Sugar, if you believe that, why do you participate here? Perhaps just or sell or buy things? Do you believe that the possible sonic character of, say, coupling capacitors, is audible? Or do you believe that everything that measures the same sounds... | |
| new directions in amplifier design The amplifiers of the future are ALL of those. For every audiofile seeking good sound thru advanced technology, there's another seeking the same good sound thru 100-year-old tried-and-true technology, the most solidstate of which is the diodes! Th... | |
| Quad 988 in 15' x 12' room My room is 21' wide and 19' deep, with a ceiling rising from 6-1/2' high in front to c. 12' at its peak a couple feet short of the back wall. My 989s' panel centers are c. 6-1/2 feet from the front wall; their outside edges are about 4' from the i... | |
| Quad 988 in 15' x 12' room Sounds to me as if your room is big enough and the 988s will be far enough from the walls. Based on everything I've read about them and my experience with my 989s, you could move them closer to the side walls.. | |
| Whatever happened to these brands? Roger Modjeski is indeed still in business, selling RAM Labs tubes and Music Reference tubed equipment, from http://www.tubeaudiostore.com/index.html .. | |
| Best amps for full range electrostatic loudspeaker My Quad 989s sound VERY nice with a c-j Premier Eleven-A, altho I'm now using New Generation-brand, Chinese-built 100W monoamps (that use 4 KT88s) in triode. They seem to have plenty of power in my medium-to-large room (c. 3600 cubic feet).Seadog,... | |
| SA-CD/DVD-A? DVD-A incompatibility problems? I too have an inexpensive all-DVDs player, a Pioneer ...563. It plays every DVD-A and SACD I've purchased and sounds good enough for now. The classical stuff I buy sounds great.I prefer DVD-A over SACD slightly but ... | |
| Best subwoofer for Quad 988? The Gradient worked very well with '63s; see http://www.restek.co.uk/sw63.htm and search Google for Gradient for lots of comments about them.. | |
| Best subwoofer for Quad 988? I have no idea if they're still available, but something called a Gradient was designed to and did indeed match the sound of the Quad 63s. They may work well with 988s or have a version for the 988.. | |
| question on using my SPL meter I repeat--use the metering-weighting system same as the noise-weighting system. Mismatching them creates LARGE errors at the frequency extremes.C-weighting should be used with 'flat' (ie unweighted) noise only if C and A are the only choices. In t... | |
| question on using my SPL meter Use the metering weighting that was used to create the pink noise. If the pink noise isn't labled as C-weighted, it's not weighted and you should use the meter's 'flat' position. Mismatching weighting v. no weighting will give you VERY inaccurate ... | |
| Phenomenal Classical Recordings I'm an unabashed Romantic. I love the Romantic-and-later-period big-orchestra pieces. My favorite composer is Gustav Mahler but I love much of the music from mid-Beethoven* on. Perhaps my most-listened-too recording, however, is one of Gustav Hols... | |
| help on center speaker "It does not make sense to buy good/full range speakers for home theater and then to send all the low frequency to the sub."When one uses full-range speakers with good bass response, one simply doesn't 'send all the low frequency to the sub', one ... |