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| Is there any 50W 300B SET monoblock out there? I have been told by a designer that doing parallel single ended is not that easy to do and somewhat defeats the benefits of a simple single-ended circuit. It is hard to get twin output tubes to behave correctly in parallel and a very high demand i... | |
| Can headphones ever be as good as high end stereo? You can, indeed, get great sound from a set of headphones. The experience is quite different, and I personally don't think it is worthwhile trying to chase similar imaging with phones--I accept that phones will present sound as coming from inside ... | |
| Excessive sibilance and edge....treat room? Pc123v,My advice to listen in the nearfield was not to advocate that this be the setup you use, but, rather, as a means of diagnosing a problem. Because you heard better sound in that position, it does indeed indicate that you would benefit from p... | |
| Excessive sibilance and edge....treat room? First step is to diagnose the problem. Move your seat so that is fairly close to the speaker (say 6ft or so away) and adjust the toe-in so it is about the same as that when you are seated at a normal distance. Now listen to your speakers. By liste... | |
| Tubes at idle Tom,Thanks for interesting link to Sears Sound. I know that the primary concern in this discussion is the impact on the tubes, but, Sears Sound also mentioned the issue of heat impacting other components. That is also a concern that I have. Every ... | |
| Tubes at idle I don't think actual fire is a common event, but, then again how much is even a small risk? If replacement tubes are cheap, the only other major cost to consider is the amount of electricity the component burns at idle (some manufacturers give buy... | |
| 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... |