larryi
Responses from larryi
| CD vs.same CD ripped to HD I use a Naim UnitiCore to rip and store the CD data. It's ripper will read over and over the same spot if there is any problem to try and extract the correct data or determine what value to insert if it cannot read or it gets different results ea... | |
| Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse? It just seem strange hoping that your amp blows up in order to spare the fuse. | |
| To horn or not to horn phusis,I don't know who made the 12" drivers I have. They were part of a system made by an Italian firm named Strumenti Acustici Precisione which put them in a Jensen Onken cabinet. I bought the speakers about 18 years ago, and then later change... | |
| What is your favorite album cover? Among the albums I own, one of my favorites is the cover to Wes Montgomery's "Road Songs."https://www.allmusic.com/album/road-song-mw0000653406The nice music is a bonus. | |
| How do I break in a tube amplifier? I think you should just use the amp as you would normally do and let it break in on its own. It is not like it will sound horrible in the process, it just may, perhaps, not b at its best.My tube gear sounds quite decent after five to ten minutes ... | |
| To horn or not to horn phusis,My speakers are 99 db/w efficient. The midrange compression driver has considerably higher efficiency, which is why I have an L-Pad to reduce its output to match that of the woofers. I really like the sound of the 713b driver.My local dea... | |
| Drivers and how to clean them: Notes from ScanSpeak I have never rotated drivers, but, it is probably a good idea to do it. I know that Lowther driver owners do this regularly because the gap for the voice coil on Lowther drivers is extremely narrow and the slightest sag will result in scraping. | |
| Stereo Times review on Audio Note UK DAC 3.1/II just went live I was witness to some interesting horse trading of Audio Note DACs at Deja Vu about six or seven years ago. A customer came in looking to audition a DAC 5 which he hoped to partially finance by trading in his DAC 4. The owner of the shop, Vu Hoan... | |
| To horn or not to horn The term "horn" speaker actually covers a pretty wide range of speaker types. When I think of horn speakers, I usually think of systems with compression midrange drivers attached to a horn waveguide. But, like the Viking speakers mentioned above... | |
| Running LOMC with MM (47K) loading It has been about my experience that once you have a value above 200 ohms or so, there is not that much difference; at that point, you are not applying much loading. That is why some phono stages, like the Linn Linto, had fixed loading at some al... | |
| The speaker/amplification wars continue It sounds like fun doing this sort of listening shoot outs, but, I hope you don't draw broad conclusions from the results. At best, you can say this or that particular amp, running a particular set of tubes, in your particular system, and in acco... | |
| Classical music listening... what is a better source High Rez or Vinyl? I hardly ever listen to my classical vinyl collection; I listen mostly to CDs ripped to a music server (about 3500 classical CDs). As far as sound quality is concerned, the extreme dynamic range of classical music means that soft passages have to... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? There may be few, but I do know a couple of early 20's audiophiles that are very much into vintage gear. One in particular, refurbishes tube amps, idler turntables, and reel to reel tape decks. He is a big fan of older Klipsch gear and actually ... | |
| Running LOMC with MM (47K) loading Pindac,I find it interesting that you experimented with lower gain tubes and use of a SUT and like that combination. I think that there are many ways to achieve the sound one personally favors, and it is your own taste and matching to your partic... | |
| Running LOMC with MM (47K) loading Atmasphere,Thank you for your explanation. I understand that in the case of the speaker movement, that movement induces a current, which in turn, if you complete the circuit, creates a magnetic field that resists the movement of the speaker. Cou... |