larryi
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| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants Mozartfan,Can you list, without acronyms, the specific speaker systems you are referring to as being state of the art, particularly ones that have no crossovers at all? Aside from a small handful of cone driver speakers with just a single driver ... | |
| El34 = KT88 = KT120 Vienna sausage=boudin blanc=linguica. Well, it seems to be the case, at least to the dog the family had who would eat everything with the same gusto. | |
| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants I can't follow the argument at all. If making a cap change makes the differences in the amps very evident, how can you then say the amps all sound essentially the same? | |
| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants If you cannot hear a meaningful difference between a 6L6 a KT120, a single ended 45 or a single-ended 2a3, a KT88, 6550, a 300b, etc., either something is VERY wrong with the particular amps, the rest of the system, the room, or the ability of the... | |
| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants While I don't dispute that speakers-- and the right choice to match one's particular taste and complement of components and the room acoustics-- is of primary importance, The choice of amplifier has a HUGE impact on the sound. I have been surpris... | |
| Embrace The Joy Of Microphonic Equipment I don’t know if microphonic proclivities improve sound, but, I’ve heard plenty of great sounding gear that utilized tubes that tended to be microphonic.I participated in a listening session to help a tube equipment designer/builder pick 310A tubes... | |
| What traditional dynamic speakers deliver a sonic signature similar to a horn speaker? Horn-based systems are the best at delivering the goods at low volume levels (which explains why they are popular with apartment dwelling Japanese audiophiles even though they take up a lot of valuable space). But, really good horn systems are ve... | |
| Blindfold Speaker testing The idea of a true blind test is just a hypothetical; it is not something that could be implemented for gleaning any meaningful information. Just on speaker setup alone, it takes MANY hours just to set up one pair of speakers, and movement of jus... | |
| Thoughts on VAC preamplifiers to drive D’Agostino power amplifiers? Thoughts? You can only know how well a combination will play together by auditioning the combination. I think this is particularly the case with a tube line stage feeding solid state. Even when the components seem electrically compatible, I’ve seen instan... | |
| Cube Audio or Charney I really like the Charney speakers, and I also like the Nenuphar speaker too. I don't think I can attribute what I like to the lack of a crossover, but, that certainly is a possible reason why they both sound so good. I think I could live with t... | |
| Is there a point of diminished returns with amps and Harbeth 30.1s? I heard a comparison of two EL34 tube amps that happen to use the 30.2 speakers in the comparison. It was fairly easy to hear the differences between the two amps that were similar in design. That is what one would expect with any decent pair of... | |
| Is there a point of diminished returns with amps and Harbeth 30.1s? I would not recommend extremely unbalanced allocation of funds for any given type of component because the results will not be optimal. But, that is not to say that there is a limitation on the ability to hear an improvement in a source componen... | |
| Blindfold Speaker testing murphythecat,YES! Using youtube to judge anything except, perhaps, appearance makes no sense at all. On top of that, making any kind of universal judgment based on anything less than extensive personal experience is also nonsense. I agree with yo... | |
| single driver speakers First, I would like to correct something I said above--The Charney speaker that I really liked was the Companion with the AER driver, although the Voxativ driver was a pretty close second (AER had better top end extension). I would like, someday,... | |
| Capacitor I have no personal experience with trying different caps, inductors and resistors in crossovers. A local builder of high end speakers that employ compression/horn drivers and wide range cone drivers does not like at all Mundorf and Duelund capaci... |