knotscott
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| $10 Dollar DAC Sounds Perfect? He's laughing all the way to the bank with every click.... | |
| Synergy Bingo! | |
| Best DAC you ever heard list. 1.Budget under 1k 2. Mid Under 5k 3. Cost no Object. Best DAC I’ve heard was a modified Oppo DAC with Convergent amps and Magico speakers.` My current modified SMSL C100 with MUSES02 opamp and linear regulated power supply is stellar, and should be incredibly competitive under a grand. All-in cos... | |
| Happy Easter to all that celebrate! Thanks, and happy Easter to you as well! | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? Absolutely. I’ve run precious few NOS or vintage tubes in my amps/preamp over the years. Tung Sol, Gold Lion, and some EH and new issue Mullards have been sounding darn good to me. Even the modern tubes that I haven’t "loved" have been pretty p... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass @asvjerry My Heil amts' can be crossed between 500~1K, so 950 may not be such a stretch. Really hinges on the woofer if just a 2way.... Agreed....there are some variables involved including Fs, x-over slope, and power handling characteristics ... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass The NX Bravo crosses over to the tweeter at 950 Hz. That is an AWFUL lot of engergy going to the single tweeter at high listening levels. Perhaps true, but I think some of that lower output is achieved from the waveguide, and not just diaphrag... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass What is out there, covering 50 and up (80 and up if needed) with lots of area for the low/mid? One of my audio buddies has the GR Research X-MTM Encore (which he loves). They have larger woofers and plenty of deep bass, but it made me think o... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass It seems that your current setup has some similarities to mine - midbass/tweeter powered by small tubes amps with an inline filter @ 60hz, then bi-amped with a solid state amp/low pass active crossover @ 60hz that powers 8" woofers and active subs... | |
| Chinese DAC's I followed the advice of an audio buddy on AudioKarma.org, and got an SMSL C-100 (basically the SU-1 w/remote). I had a MUSES02 opamp installed in place of the OPA-1612, and added a linear regulated power supply. It has vastly improved separatio... | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area There are a lot of variables in play, very few absolutes, and pros and cons with every choice. Freedriver touched on the fact that larger drivers become directional at frequencies that are larger than the surface diameter. Implementation, setu... | |
| Anyone else constantly curious about amps? Rolling tubes is cheaper and less radical of a change. | |
| Tube vibration control Every situation is different, but I prefer just to put the amps/preamp on some isolation feet or platform. Like "sns", I found that those tube dampers damped the magic out of the tubes. | |
| Would a tube amp generally do better on power conditioner than a SS amp? Depends on the amp and the power supply of the amp, but I’d imagine most good amps would benefit from clean, stable power. Might be harder to notice on a mediocre amp. | |
| Multi-driver inexpensive speakers vs. expensive speaker, what's the difference? Put yourself in the designer’s shoes....Start with the 3 C’s.....cabinet, components, crossover. All 3 play a critical role in how the speaker performs You need to make a strong well-braced non-resonant box of the right size for the drivers that... |