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| 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... | |
| SET vs OTL No, it would constantly be in protection mode, meaning no output. | |
| Actual Lead Time on Tekton Speakers With supply chains in such an unpredictable state, manufacturers don’t know when the will receive parts or sub assemblies and so the “guess,” sometimes optimistically. A dealer said that some gear that normally arrived in a week or two after orde... | |
| SET vs OTL I don’t think it is possible. The tubes in a SET amp are constantly outputting dc that is the modulated up and down in output by the audio signal. That changing output fed to the primary windings of the output transformer then induces an alterna... | |
| Is there a point of diminished returns with amps and Harbeth 30.1s? You can get meaningful improvement by getting a better amp regardless of the speakers you are using. The question is whether the improvement is worth the price. With speakers as good as the 30.1, I think that it would be worthwhile to spend a si... | |
| New Speakers $10K -$20K I just recently heard Martens Parker Trio speakers in a dealer system with Classe line stage and amp. The system sounded very good—clear, and smooth without sounding muddy or murky. The dealer sells Focal, Magico, and Rockport speakers. I like ... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component I've heard some good high powered amps, and if I had speakers that required that kind of power, I would own such amps. But, I have personally not heard a high powered amp that I preferred over a good low-powered amp when driving efficient speaker... | |
| Your favorite audio cartoons My favorite shows an audiophile staring at an advertisement poster that shows a woman sort of draped over a speaker. In his thought bubble you see that he is mentally undressing the speaker (imagining the drivers). | |
| Speakers The single most critical component Power is cheap and the market is flooded with 200 plus watt per channel amps. It doesn’t make sense to say that amps hardly matter but efficiency in a speaker is paramount. Why is efficiency important if you can readily find enough power and the... |