johnk
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| what is the best amp you've ever heard Best Ive heard in my systems not at shows etc is Musical Fidelity Kilowatt. Purist audio design 300b para feed SET. Wavac MD300B. Ive had a few 45 SET amps rival the PAD and wavac. The MF kilowatt produced the deepest soundstage Ive heard out of a... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Yes KCS is my company. Many of our models use mundorf caps and sport quality alnico magnet drivers. I have used Duelands and they are very good but its the transducer that maters more than the cap. On my Klipsch and altecs I used t900a t500amk2 as... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Wait till you hear what replacing the tweeter with a fostex t900a or t500amk2 would do;) klipsch tweeters are not so good...I would replace the tweeters before I would buy crazy costly caps like dueland. Not mater what cap you run on the klipsch t... | |
| Best U.S.A. speakers? KCS offers a few models with all US sourced parts. Loudspeakers are designed and constructed in WI USA. We do offer models with some imported parts but when a US suppler is available we always opt for US unless performance would suffer. I do know ... | |
| Best U.S.A. speakers? kcs loudspeakers | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I found the midrange to be the best thing about my klipschs. The bass and trebile are sub optimal. The smearing in bass is due to the bass cab design I built 2 improved klipsch bass cabinets and they sounded near the same poor;) Replacing the twee... | |
| Transmission line speakers - great with tubes Smooth impedance designs sure do work better for set etc. But a TL is just a TL. My friends shop was a BuggTussel dealer I was able to hear in my home most of the BT loudspeakers. Never tried them on SET seemed to thrive on more power. Nice build.... | |
| Which is the top dog in "subs"? The top dog in subs are KCS 31.5 in, and KCS bass horns. A hi-excursion driver with massive power in small cabinet that needs room +floor bondery reinforcement to produce bass. Is a sub optimal design but most all sub manufacters offer this becaus... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I know folks will disagree but my findings are that caps need breakin. The dorfs can take a 100 or so hours to fully open up. Maybe you didnt give the sonics enoff time. | |
| Transmission line speakers - great with tubes Many ways one can design loudspeakers that are great with low power tubes. TL designs are not the only way. Just one way of getting it done. Bass in TL designs can be very good but other wise nothing else in a TL designs makes it superior to other... | |
| A 9 watts SET for the Maggies, Heavenly marriage Its not that a low power SET wont drive a maggie or most any speaker, hook a SET up to any loudspeaker and it will work. Its just a sub optimal way of putting together a system. When you use a SET on a 3.6 it will sound good just you are not heari... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Caps are lucky to last 30 years. The dorfs are far better than vintage but the silvers do have a bit of hi-frequincy sparkle. Sonic caps are not near the quality of mundorfs. Tube amps help flesh out some vintage and other systems. And its easy to... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? My new 3 way front loaded corner horn with 8 -15in drivers, 2 compression mid horns and 2 fostex amk2 tweeters. I havent heard anything else thats close except goto or Ale systems. And I could use these drivers if I had the cash. | |
| Stereophile claims about Magico The design of Magico does not interest me its very standard in the industry thats what this threads about not magicos sound quality. About claiming a standard design is revolutionary. Plus now carbon nano tubes are suspected in causing cancer like... | |
| Very low speaker impedance Your question (Do many speaker manufacturers choose for a "safer" (more benign) impedance behaviour even if they know a low impedance design would be better instead sonically?) I feel stable 16 ohms is far better so the answer for me is no. If 1-2... |