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| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? Interesting... It says in the manual for the Aleph 5:"For the lowest possible operating noise in any environment, the amplifier is equipped with balanced inputs featuring a common mode noise rejection of greater than 60 dB. Balanced operation is a... | |
| Pass XA 160 review:life span is 6 years? Yeah - just so we're clear the issue is that for D dollars you can have W watts from XA series or 5 times that in X series (I'd have to open excel do find the actual numbers, and its probably not linear across the lineup. But that is the idea.). A... | |
| How many have heard the Beveridge Electrostatics? Hey - sorry if this is a dumb question, but if the voltage was 108 volts (that is what it says on page 3 for why the sound might have been off a bit) would the Monster Pro Power AVS 2000 have rectified that? | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers If you get Magnepans then you can spend as low as 10% of your budget on speakers :)... ha ha ha ha ha ha to everyone else...Just having fun. But its actually somewhat true. If you look through virtual systems Maggies tend to get paired with much m... | |
| subwoofers and panels don't mix Mr Tennis - from your post 2 above - can you give me a specific track to listen to and what exactly should one listen for to identify that the woofer and panels don't blend seamlessly? I know when they sound really bad together - but when a system... | |
| subwoofers and panels don't mix Hmmm... I know this thread is a bit old, just for others reading this and if you haven't gotten anything yet, I recommend the Hsu HO. I may have some of the problems described above but it sounds pretty darn good to me! Using test CD (Stereophile ... | |
| Anything better than Magnepan 1.6? Yeah, really just saying it takes that much to get into a Von Schweikert speaker - but if something were truly absolutely fundamentally amazing I might consider it at 4 - but I really don't want to go that far. 3 is already my 'I've gone too far' ... | |
| Roger Sanders is back Yeah, that is some serious stuff. I was going to say can you make an analog - use as much of the technology as you can put into a 5k set of speakers, but reading through what Beveridge does and how you describe what is being done, it doesn't sound... | |
| Anything better than Magnepan 1.6? Those are great comments. I am indeed intrigued by the Von Schweikert various used models which at used prices can be in the 2.5-4 k range depending on how far back you go. There is a place close enough to where I live, so I'll try to check them o... | |
| Quad 2905 amp matching As far as I know Pass amps can drive anything... Not as familiar with Threshold, but after 2 minutes of web reading it seems they also focus on similar goals as Pass and can deliver power to super-low Ohm loads. I would be shocked if the Pass 350.... | |
| Cost no Object but Small Room Check out the Tetra stuff, maybe 506, 406, etc. www.tetraspeakers.com. These are somehow a bit different than most other box speakers... They have a different feel. These are fairly popular with musicians - they cerainly aren't studio monitors, bu... | |
| Roger Sanders is back Hmmm... Could be interesting. However, I try to stick with lower-priced products - do you think they will sell anything in the sub-5k level? Can't go over 5k... I could see them having a 7k and 15k+ model or something like that. Maybe I'll give th... | |
| Roger Sanders is back Am I being dense, or are there no speakers advertised on the Sanders site? I see amps for esl, etc., but no speakers? | |
| I have Maggie MG 1.6's - need amp advice One person mentions them above, but a 2nd plug for Pass Labs. If you can find a used Aleph what you get per dollar spent is very hard to beat. Stereophile showed that these perform super well into amazingly low ohm loads. They provide serious curr... |