jeffreybehr
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| That nice, unforced, relaxed, easeful sound ?? "I get it at every live classical concert I go to."Me too, and I go to a lot. It's REAL MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!Oh yea...that's sort of what Quad 989s sound like.. | |
| Why do my speakers "POP" when I turn off preamp? To Jea48, that won't do any good because the turn-off (and -on, too) transient is created by the line stage, and that's always in the circuit full volume no matter where the selector switch or volume control is set."Next you will be telling us tha... | |
| two amps and one pair of speakers Why not run one pair of cables, switching at the amps?. | |
| Egglestone Andra 1 tweeter "crossover" You're welcome. That may have been the only useful thing I did all day!I bought my multiturn 1K pots at Radio Shack. I imagine most electronic-supplies stores would have something like them. Power rating is not important in my experience; tweeters... | |
| Egglestone Andra 1 tweeter "crossover" Vector, if that's your goal, I'd dig up 2 pots (potentiometers) of relatively low value (say, NMT 1000 Ohms) and wire one in series with the tweeter BEFORE the high-pass section of the crossover. Adjust it to be wide open (= no resistance), play s... | |
| Egglestone Andra 1 tweeter "crossover" "It will also lower the X-over freq. of tweeters."Uuhh...didn't I just say that?. | |
| Egglestone Andra 1 tweeter "crossover" Adding 1 Ohm of resistance in series with the tweeter will at least lower the level of the treble and, depending on where you put it, will alter the filter point of the tweeter crossover.Is that what you want to do? This sounds like monkey busines... | |
| help buying capacitors If you have to have Black Gates, Michael Percy sells them and has explanations of the types. But Loon is correct--I'd never put a 'lytic into a speaker, and SCRs (Axon, Solen, etc.) 'propylenes are great, bypassed with something better, for the hi... | |
| Amp for Gallo Reference 3a's? Proceed HPA-2. 250wpc into 8, 500pc into 4. I have a BPA-3 (125wpc/8) that sounds very nice; a friend has an HPA-3 driving B&W N.803s VERY loudly and he loves it. Balanced or RCA inputs.One HPA-2 is here on A'goN for $1500.. | |
| 5 Channel Amp with Meridian and B&W Also consider the HPA-series Proceed amps. They're rated 250wpc/8 and 500/4 and were built in 2- and 3-channel versions and have rCA and balanced inputs. They were discontinuted last year so are highly affordable. A friend is using an HPA-3 to dri... | |
| Multi-Channel Amp questions Forget about all those calculations. Listen to your system carefully and learn, if you haven't heard it before, to determine the sound of clipping. With 86dB-sensitivity speakers, I'd say you're at the edge of having NOT enough power for a home th... | |
| Ok it is time for my dumb question on the day Le doc's analogy is good. Now think of this increasing and decreasing (of speed or voltage) in the very short term by turning the road and hill into music with a very stong pulse. At every beat of the thumpdrum (or bass guitar, or...), with an unr... | |
| Multichannel amps that can drive low impedances? ANY solidstate amplifier will drive a 1-Ohm load. The question is just how much current (hence power) can the amp deliver into 1 Ohm. Some SS amps will double twice to 2 Ohms but I'll bet very few of them will double again in 1 Ohm. The class-A-bi... | |
| Crossovers OK, good.Generally, high-order filters are used to increase power handling at the expense of phase coherency. | |
| MC150s as mono blocks... bridged or parallel? What's an MC150*? Solidstate or tubed? If SS, does it have a switch for bridging?Generally, tubed-amp channels are paralleled when one 'monos' the amp. The power combines, into half the individually rated impedance. IOW, a tubed 100wpc-into-8-ohms... |