larryi
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| Finally, I´ve got the Proac D48R speakers !!! I like that speaker too. It is a not very common example of a ribbon tweeter being well integrated with dynamic drivers. ProAc is good at this trick. | |
| Horn speakers for vintage sound I have not heard any Shinjitsu Audio speakers myself, but, I find their design fascinating and the price is reasonable. Their speakers utilize a horn midrange/top end and a back-loaded quarter wave woofer of small diameter. | |
| Elekit TU-8600S. Best 300B’s? Unfortunately, the only way to know is to buy the WE tube and try it. Even if nine out of ten prefer it, personal taste or system synergy may put you in that minority group. If you do like the WE tube, it should be your primary tube; why not enj... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados For Pires fans, I recommend here recording with the violinist Dumay of Beethoven's Violin and Piano Sonatas on DG (3 CDs). This is a terrific recording in all respects. | |
| Horn speakers for vintage sound While it sounds like you are looking at traditional horn-based high efficiency systems (compression midrange and horn, plus other drivers for bass and tweeter), there are other approaches to similar kind of sound (very lively and engaging, particu... | |
| Thermal Distortion your loudspeaker most likely suffers from it. But do you care? As Atmasphere described, cost was a big driver to higher power and lower efficiency. But, it was also partly a result of the success of stereo. When it was just one box, it wasn't quite so bad that the box was big in size. But, when stereo came... | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes A local dealer that exclusive deals in tube equipment often sees repeated early tube failure and the kind of failure described here where there is also damage to the amp from the same customers while other customers running the same model of amp d... | |
| Thermal Distortion your loudspeaker most likely suffers from it. But do you care? The interesting thing about Alnico magnets and compression is that some theorize that the particular sound of Alnico magnet speakers is that they are actually subject to more compression than other magnet types because flux density is lower under ... | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes The Amplitrex is so easy to use and it does not require much time at all to use. It has a warm up cycle that is timed for the particular tube being tested so that the tube would be measured when reasonably warmed up. I would not want a tesster t... | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes Faint burnt smell means something inside the amp went bad, probably a resistor burnt up. That could be caused by a tube going bad. Moving the bad tube to the other amp would then cause the other amp to go bad. I never do the switch tube around ... | |
| Horn speakers for vintage sound GIP drivers are extremely expensive, nothing is in your stated price range and they rarely come up for sale used. GIP drivers are in the same price range as original WE drivers. Also, they do not so much as try to reproduce WE drivers that emplo... | |
| The New Western Electric WE91E 300B Integrated amp ? It is supposedly made in-house in Georgia. My local dealer will be carrying the amp as one of the first dealers. He got this privilege by being a big WE advocate that rebuilds WE amps and builds new amps with WE parts. While I am not in the mark... | |
| Thermal Distortion your loudspeaker most likely suffers from it. But do you care? I have woofers and midrange compression drivers that utilize alnico magnets. I don't plan on abusing these drivers to the point where de-magnetification occurs. A local dealer who had an alnico magnet driver with weak output had the magnet rech... | |
| Thermal Distortion your loudspeaker most likely suffers from it. But do you care? ditusa, Thank you for the interesting paper you attached to one of your postings. I just got around to reading it and it is very interesting. Not only does heat affect the voice coil, to the extent the heat gets into the magnetic structure, flux... | |
| Do larger planar speakers produce more accurate sound? Some do have that sort of nasal coloration, some do not. I am not a fan of most of the current production compression driver systems (e.g., Klipsch, JBL), but systems made with some very special drivers from the like of Western Electric, Internat... |