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| Amplifier Enclosure Resonance Plexiglass as a top for a tube component? How could that be better than steel or even aluminum or copper for better heat dissipation or EMI/RFI isolation, aside from rigidity? | |
| Quick How to Stream MQA via Tidal to Bluesound Thanks. I followed a similar process for streaming the MQA content using my Bluesound Node 2. I just made a note of the MQA selections that I liked from Tidal app and found them on my Bluesound app and saved them. My external DAC does indeed show ... | |
| Experimenting with reversing polarity to speakers Just make sure you turn the amplifier off when experimenting with the speaker wires. It makes a bad day if/when they touch each other by accident. | |
| I heard the $4000 Focal Utopia Headphones yesterday I have worked extensively with using beryllium-copper alloy in various components and don't recall any special handling procedures in the factory for such materials. We used them in designing the casings for components that were exposed directly t... | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen Aside from all the praise of the Persona line, I find it refreshing to see how efficient/sensitive they are as compared to some of their competition. Possibly a good match for tube components. Curious to see the impedance behavior across the frequ... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? https://www.upscaleaudio.com/collections/new-used-specials/products/quad-ii-classic-monoblock-amplifiers-usedNo affiliation. | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? If you watch the Fremer's tour of Audio Research plant, they showed two listening rooms; one with SF Aida's - obvious choice especially since they are owned by the same company, and used mostly for tours, and another in the back with Magnepan 20.7... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? An extremely educational thread, even for non-Quad ESL owners like me. So based on the facts presented earlier, it appears that the ESL speakers do not follow the same amplifier requirements when compared to "dynamic" or cone design speakers. In ... | |
| Tube amp for KEF Reference 3s If the objective is to just get close enough to experiment, I'd guess ANY tube amp with a >50 wpc power handling should suffice. My very limited experience with the tube amplification (or preamplification) has shown me that its difficult to fin... | |
| Burn in time for a new CD transport? I think in most (almost all) cases, the "state of mind" of the listener makes the biggest difference in the sound quality. It is a proven fact - data to be provided upon request, that mind altering drugs - legal or otherwise, can have the an impac... | |
| Harbeth & VAC combo Sorry, it was probably 40.2, the current model. The show was just a couple of month ago. I'm beginning to wonder if my ears are permanently affected by digital sound and a completely neutral and accurate (analog) system sounds a bit too dull to my... | |
| Harbeth & VAC combo They had a fairly large room set up at the NY Audio show with the Harbeth 40.1 and VAC large monoblocks - not sure which model, and a very sophisticated turntable as the source. To my great surprise the overall presentation was not very exciting t... | |
| Experimenting with reversing polarity to speakers The PDF version of the user manual is available online here - look under Additional Info.http://shop.grantfidelity.com/consonance-ref50-mkii-tube-pre-amplifier.html | |
| Regarding Joseph Audio Pulsar Loudspeakers I haven't heard the Pulsars but out of all the stand mounted, and even some floor standing speakers, presented at the NY Audio show, I was completely blown away by Sonner Allegro Unum speakers. The tonality, soundstaging, and transparency was incr... | |
| Experimenting with reversing polarity to speakers Opera Consonance Ref. 50 has non-inverted - normal, polarity. |