larryi
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| Tubes at idle I would always turn off amps that are not going to be used for a long time. First, for safety reasons, the amps should not be left completely unattended for long periods. Second, heat will, to some extent, shorten the life of the other non-tube co... | |
| LS3/5A vs Sonus Faber EA/Minima The Rogers are quite inefficient, but, the very high impedance makes them a very easy load for tube amps. I heard a pair in a large room driven by fairly low-powered amps (somewhere around 18 watts). The MC275 should work quite well with the Roger... | |
| Your favourite recording label? Naive, BIS, Astree, Harmonia Mundi, ECM, Channel Classics, Concord. | |
| Why did you choose a horn based loudspeaker? I like to listen to music at lower volume levels and nothing really comes close to a horn system in terms of delivering dynamics (liveliness), musical detail and a complete harmonic palette like horns at lower volume levels. Horns can deliver asto... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest Speakers? Charles1dad,I think most of us would like "natural" sounding systems, but given the limitations of ALL gear, we differ in priorities and compromises we are willing to accept (or find intolerable). I demand systems to be very dynamic and lifelike a... | |
| Stillpoints and reference-level speakers I look at footers as tuning devices. As such, the appropriate type of footer--whether it is designed to tightly couple the speaker to the floor or whether it is designed to decouple the speaker from the floor and dissipate energy in the device--de... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest Speakers? Grimace, The Deja Vu room was running "new" electronics that are built around vintage parts, and in the case of the amplifier, based on vintage cicuits (the DAC was obviously NOT vintage Western Electric). The gear is based primarily on Western El... | |
| Buying Used Martin Logan Speakers, any concerns? I had a pair for about ten year with no problems at all. My pair did not have the feature which turns off the voltage energizing the panel when it was not in use (I had to manually unplug it for that purpose). The primary reason for that feature i... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest Speakers? Pops,At home I listen primarily to digitally sourced material from a music server. I listen to my vinyl rig only where I don't have something on my server (chalk it up to extreme laziness). But, I was struck at this show at how much better vinyl s... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest Speakers? I was impressed with two speakers at the extreme ends of the price range. At $500 for a very small bookshelf (or large desktop) speaker, the Vanatoos sounded quite good. For this price, the buy gets a built-in amplifier and DAC; just plug it into ... | |
| Bybee Internal Speaker Bullets - user feedback? Lewinski,My friend's speakers are horn-based--it is a 1970's Electrovoice system with a rear horn-loaded bass driver and a dome tweeter with a waveguide. The midrange is from another system altogether--I believe it is a JBL compression driver feed... | |
| Bybee Internal Speaker Bullets - user feedback? I use the Golden Goddess speaker bullets in my system with mixed results. They do tighten up the bass response and improve the clarity of the sound, but at the expense of the sound seeming less "beautiful" -- the overall sound is drier and less sa... | |
| Spendor SP 100/R2 and Harbeth 40.1 - impressions? I personally like the big Spendor speaker, although I have not heard it in direct comparison with the Harbeth. The primary concern with the SP100 is whether the bass response will overwhelm a room. I've heard it sound a bit upper-bass heavy in sev... | |
| Why Palladium in cables, wiring, etc. . .? I have no idea about either the physical/theoretical properties of the material, nor the supposed sonic attributes. I find it amazing how much speculation one finds in this thread based on the physical properties of the material when all bets are ... | |
| Greatest song titles.. What about: "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body (Would You Hold it Against Me)" by the Bellamy Brothers. |