jeffreybehr
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| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? David, if you're talking about the low frequencies of music, it's bass, not base. :-). | |
| Actually difference between class A and AB? Mithch2: "If I were to generalize based on my experience, in an attempt to answer your question, I would say well designed Class A amps, when compared to well designed AB amps, offer “sweeter” sounding high frequencies with less tendency towards g... | |
| Tri-amping 3.6R's; what amp for the ribbons? "There's a Monarchy SM70 listed for $400 (no relation). Wouldn't hurt too much to try."True, but I didn't much like the sounds of them driving my highly improved Audio Physic Avanti IIIs...very clean but rather uninvolving and a bit thin.I'd look ... | |
| Vandersteen 4 Interestingly, I e-mailed the sellers of the last 2 pairs of 4s to hit A'goN. Niether responded, but the ads stayed up for days or weeks thereafter. I guess they didn't like whatever question I asked. :-)My friend loves the sounds of my 5As so muc... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Ladies, gentlemen, and other harddrive users, do remember that there are only 2 kinds of HDs--those that have failed and those that will. That's supposed to remind you do create backups of your data as others have mentioned they do.And no, discpla... | |
| My audiophile take on the symphony last night. .EXCELLENT thread! TYVM Bizango1 and all.I love Romantic-period Classical music and have had season tickets to the Phoenix Symphony O's concerts for decades. Halls do sound different from one another, and the same one sounds different depending on... | |
| Rookie; replace my own amplifier caps?? 1. After only 10 years, main-powersupply caps do NOT need to be replaced. Maybe after 30 years, but not after 10.2. I've never seen a debate about preventative replacement of main-PS caps, 'hot' or not.3. There ain't nothin' higher quality than Bl... | |
| Vandersteen 2ce I'm with Wolf_garcia--I too like to do those things and even replace low- to medium-quality parts with better ones. I have 5As and have replaced a few parts in their x-overs, but physically the boards are jammed with parts. Here's a pic with origi... | |
| The Audiophile's Wife Grannyring, I LOVE your wife's blog..."...the bass had gone hasta la bye bye..." indeed...and I'm sending it to all my audiofool buddies, which lists include MY loving wife.TYVM.. | |
| Details for bi-amping "Contrastingly, if you bi-amp (SIC) with a passive crossover (e.g., use the crossovers built into the speakers), then each pair of monoblocks will amplify the full audio band. For example, the monoblocks for the woofer will be amplifying the full ... | |
| Details for bi-amping Well, now I'M confused, by your summary.So you plan to biamp passively with 4 identical tubed monoamps?Two STRONG advantages are that the gains will be identical and that you'll have 3dB more power. Another advantage will be slightly less IM and h... | |
| Details for bi-amping Have we noticed that Nikmilkov hasn't posted a word since the original message? Probably he's so confused and discouraged from our audiobabble that he'll either never try passive biamping or never ask a question here again! :-)Nik, the biggest and... | |
| Which speaker post to use: 4 ohm or 8 ohm? Strong accent, huh? It's 'integrated'. ... :-)The answers are 'either' and 'try it again and listen carefully, back and forth'. You'll get more* Voltage gain (= loudness) from the 8-Ohm tap, but the bass drivers will be damped better from the 4-Oh... | |
| Details for bi-amping "...what is commonly not realized is that much of the power capability of the solid state amp will not be utilizable, because how much of its power capability can be utilized will be limited by the clipping point of the lower powered amp."Maybe so... | |
| Details for bi-amping Sorry fot the misspellings; too bad this forum chooses not to have an Edit feature.. |