larryi
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| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland Charles1dad,I am like you, mostly in the low-powered camp. I own three tube amps, the most powerful being the Audio Note Kageki, which is rated at 6.5 watts per channel. My current favorite is a 5 watt pushpull amp that runs the 349 tube. If I ... | |
| Just how much do speakers suppose to vibrate? Whether you add mass to the speaker, or clamp its sides, or change the platform/stand the speaker is sitting on, or change the way the speaker couples to the floor, you are altering the tuning. Whether this is good or bad really is a matter of ta... | |
| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland Charles1dad,Wow, you certainly have heard a lot of the gear I wish I could audition. Also, we pretty much agree on the sound of a lot of brands of gear. I too have heard the Viva and Trenner and Friedl combinations and they sound very good.My ow... | |
| Seeking technician in Delmarva/Mid Atlantic states to install ASR Emitter II upgrade kit Music Technology in Springfield Virginia (suburb of DC) is one of the very best repair places on the east coast. They can repair a wide range of gear and are practiced in upgrade/modification jobs. The only downside with them is that they can ta... | |
| How did you choose your equipment? Most of the components in my system have never been reviewed by either a paper publication or an on-line publication or were reviewed long after I had already made my purchase. There are far too many components that sound really bad, based on my ... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I don't think there is such a thing as an "ideal speaker." You can line up dozens of speakers as candidates for the best current speaker, and you will have a WIDE difference in opinion as to which is the "best" (i.e., the closest to an "ideal"). ... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Johnk did not say that only his opinion/experience counts. He simply said that experience trumps speculation. Unless one has actually heard the type of systems he is talking about, it is mere speculation that modern designs are inherently superi... | |
| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland If you are looking for exceptional gear that is exotic, i.e., not the more "common" brands that you mentioned, there are plenty of candidates, not necessarily better, because there are so many factors involved. I personally would love to hear the... | |
| Volume Control setting corresponds to how many db down (-db) from 0db at full volume? You could get a watt meter. These things sell for about $45 and are used by RC airplane fanciers and others that need to make measurements at modest power levels without affecting performance while taking the measurement. A friend and I used his... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? The point was that technology, modern materials, etc., has not improved on something that is hundreds of years old. If you think that there is some simple "ideal" of a perfectly neutral speaker and that there is some technical means of measuring ... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Mapman,There are a few areas where modest attempts to replicate older technology has failed to some degree. I am sure that if there were the will and sufficient interest, the "lost" know-how could be overcome, but, that has not actually happened.... | |
| Speaker wattage question The power recommendation given by the manufacturer is just a rough guide of the kind of amplifier that should be used with the speaker. Those numbers do not necessarily mean that the speaker is capable of operating at sustained levels as high as ... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? bdp24,As I stated above, I don't know why the idler tables I heard have the kind of "drive" that they do have, but, I suspect it has to do with the high torque motors employed. I have heard the same sort of sound from the three motor Audio Note t... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? I know several people with systems well north of $100k that have Thorens 124s and Garrard 301 and 401 tables in them. When properly reconditioned, these can be terrific sounding--quite punchy and dynamic sounding. I have no idea whether it is th... | |
| Speaker wattage question With high-powered amps, you can damage speakers with both prolonged high volume listening, where the heat from current running through the voice coil will do the damage, or from short, very intense bursts of power that are typical of accidents, su... |