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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... | |
Kronos vs TW Acoustic Were I to be at all interested in any belt-drive turntable, the Kronos would be my choice. This is in no way meant to denigrate the TW Acoustics product. | |
Vinyl and subwoofers It seems somewhat counter to logic to purchase a subwoofer that now requires a rumble filter. If you can "hear" the subwoofer operating during normal playback, that typically indicates the level is set too high; turn it down a bit and see if that... | |
Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? Nandric, How can you, the consummate logician, pose such a question, since likely no one of us has heard both pieces? | |
Wave Kinetics NVS Reference Turntable Review on Positive Feedback Thanks for your responses, JTinn. I always wondered what it was about the platter/bearing assembly that dictated the fact that the two cannot be separated by the end-user (apparently) or for shipping purposes, at least. This is just owing to my ... | |
Tube for a Noob ??? Like Noromance said, "tube" CDPs use tube in the audio section; as you might expect, decoding has to be done with chips in the digital domain. There are a few companies who make or made very excellent sounding CDPs with tube-based output stages. ... | |
Does anyone know where I can get a turntable platter machined to my specs I second Viridian's recommendation of Colby aka "InDaGroove". He's THE guy for this. | |
Wave Kinetics NVS Reference Turntable Review on Positive Feedback No doubt that the combination of these 3 devices must be magnificent to the ear, as it is to the eye. What was eventually done about the problem of shipping the NVS, what with the fact that the platter still seems to be inseparable from the chass... | |
LCR phono stages we know about The revival of this (my) thread enables me to ask a question: I was reading an old review of the Manley Steelhead, in maybe 6 Moons, maybe from 2004 or 2005. In that review, Evanna Manley herself describes the Steelhead circuit from input to out... | |
worst sounding great lps Anything on Roulette, and sadly they had some great artists in their stable at various times, including Mel Torme', Sarah Vaughn, etc. | |
Coincident phono stage - cartridge compatibility (EMT)? I just read a review of the Coincident and something about the specs. This seems to be a dedicated MC phono stage, despite any pretext about using an MM cartridge with it. There does not seem to be any way to bypass the built-in SUTs, in other w... |