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| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Downunder, I don't think we're really "debating" the 3 curves so much as we are talking about what curve is optimal for what tonearms and why. I recently got very interested in tonearms that have zero headshell offset angle and are designed to be... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. That's a well known question for Martin-Logan's design. Most ESLs are not curvi-linear, however. Most are truly planar. The Sound Labs may appear to be curvilinear, but the apparent curve is composed of an array of planar facets, created by str... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Something just occurred to me: Is the offset angle required for Stevenson much more acute than that which is required for Lofgren and Baerwald? I think it's the opposite, because of the aforementioned need to twist the cartridge inward on a Stev... | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Thoughts on pairing the Reed with the SME turntable(s): Just do it. The interaction of a tonearm with a turntable is much less significant than the complex interactions among the mat, the tonearm, and the cartridge, each with the other two. In ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Audioman, ESLs (like Sound Labs) are not "controlled" by a high power amplifier in the same way that the misinformed might say that an electromagnetic speaker (like a Magneplanar) is controlled by high power. Electromagnetic speakers, woofers in... | |
| LCR phono stages we know about Dear Ghetto,Thanks for the information on the Steelhead. I wonder what they do via the MC inputs that bypasses the LCR corrector. I do know that the MC inputs feed autoformers, but I thought that was to alter input impedance only. There are a f... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Thom, The issue of doing the twist (Chubby Checker, where are you now that we need you?) has most to do with using Baerwald or Lofgren with a tonearm designed for Stevenson. This issue therefore only or mostly comes up with vintage tonearms of the... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Thom, I don't "view" it one or the other, either. But my recommendation is based on actual real life experience. At least one other person, reporting on Vinyl Engine, had the same experience. I would not argue that others who do it do not seem ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Stewart, I apologize for the tone of my remarks; I was feeling playful, and perhaps that came across as hostility, which was not my intent. It seems impossible to get my point across to the assemblage, which is simply to re-state that one should... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Here is my advice: Find out what geometry your tonearm was built for. (Headshell offset angle will vary according to the length of the tonearm and the geometry assumed by its designer.) Then use THAT geometry for THAT tonearm. Here is why: In a... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Dear Stewart, You wrote, "There's no analogizing......and I know they're different (that's why they're not both called electrostatic)" Wrong! Your magneplanars and even ribbon tweeters are electromagnetic, not electrostatic. In your speakers, th... | |
| What is Technics thinking? Just returned from 2 weeks in Tokyo, where I visited Akihabara twice. The new 1200 was on display at several stores both small and large. Sorry I did not have the presence of mind to price it out, but it's available in Japan, at least. | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Dear Tim (Pryso), Let me help you with that. Stewart is full of baloney if he insists on analogizing a magneplanar type speaker with an ESL. They may both be "flat", but that's about where the similarity ends. The principles of their operation ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I think Al and I did allude to such issues. It is not the high frequency information per se, unless you are talking about RF, which is never good for any system, but how the load (the speaker) reacts to those frequencies in a way that then feeds ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I would only add one point to this discussion. It is folly to talk about "tube amplifiers" and "ESL"s in general terms, because each and every tube amplifier and each and every ESL in the marketplace has its own idiosyncrasies of design that stro... |