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| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy Yes, I agree that it is interesting that there were no stand alone phonostages back in the 1950's and 1960's, but, that was just not a thing. All gear had to have a phono section so not many companies chose to unbundle the phono stage. Separates... | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy It probably is the case that no one back then even thought of a phono stage as a separate component; that would explain the dearth of examples. Back then, no one thought of power cords as discrete components either. Also, the popularity of low o... | |
| Integrated amp for tube lover I too am a big fan of the A100 amp. I do not recall the model numbers of the Allnic gear I’ve heard, but there stuff also sounds good. | |
| Yamaha HX-10000 phonostage, any views? Solid state from 1987 is getting a bit old and challenging to find replacement parts. It is not like old tube gear where replacement parts are easy to find and the core parts that are not easily replaced can be expected to last a very long time. ... | |
| Atelier Rullit field coil driver The appropriate cabinet will depend on the specific design of the driver. The manufacturer can tell you if it is designed for open baffle, sealed cabinet or bass reflex and the appropriate cabinet volume. Drivers don't behave ideally in differen... | |
| Atelier Rullit field coil driver You might consider the PureAudioProject open baffle speakers. Their Quintet models feature four 15" woofers, with various modules for midrange/tweeter that fits in the middle. These modules include a horn option, a coaxial driver option and a co... | |
| Atelier Rullit field coil driver I have heard the Atelier Rullit field coil driver in Trehause open baffle speakers. I cannot attribute specific qualities to that driver, but, I can say that these were not among my favorite open baffle speakers; the sound was a little thin and r... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers A local dealer who builds custom horn systems has a 70hz horn with a square opening and a 90 degree bend in the horn throat. Even with that bend, the horn is well north of six feet long so it is very hard to work all of this into a single cabinet... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Are building the kit or building the cabinets from scratch? That looks like quite a project from scratch. These speakers sound very lively and nimble and deliver much more bass than one can normally expect from a single, small, driver. Bigger ... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Ported speakers tend to require more experimentation to get setup optimized than sealed speakers. The payoff, if you can find a good placemeny, is higher efficiency. This IS a big deal to those who like low powered amps (like me). I have a loca... | |
| Stacking It is hard to guess what will happen. For one thing, you will now be seated much lower with respect to the height of the drivers, particularly, the midrange and tweeter. You might have to angle the speaker downward to restore the same axis to ge... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers With horn compression drivers, typically used for midrange and high frequency drivers, air is confined in a chamber and this does effectively increase impedance to allow for a better coupling of the driver to the air. This certainly does improve ... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers The transmission line speakers I heard had very tight bass and sounded quite good. They were also reasonably compact and did not require a lot of depth. The various folded horns, like the Tannoy speakers, sound really good, although the bass did... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Quarter wave back loaded horns have a constantly expanding cross section to the folded horn. That expansion prevents standing waves from developing in the horn. A transmission line has a more constant cross section and has to have a lot of dampi... | |
| Why most $3000 and lower DAC’s sound almost identical While I am interested in the debate about different technologies, and why various approaches are superior or measure better, in the end, I make choices based on what sounds good to me, and that almost never correlates with measurements. Among the... |