lynn_olson
Responses from lynn_olson
| Doozy of an amp question There's no way of knowing in advance how two components will align with each other. Actually, three components, the speakers, power amp, and preamp. I'm not an ARC guy, but I agree with jperry's comments that ARC is the safe choice. Anything else,... | |
| Tom Evans Phono Preamp Repair The build "quality" is something to see. Particularly if you compare it to anything built in Shenzen in the last five years. At a wild guess, this is a hobby project that sells for silly prices. Gotta give them credit for the creative writing in ... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Good news! Nice that the Revels respond to an amp swap. You're probably hearing better current delivery thanks to the massive supply. | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Looks like quite a good loudspeaker, and surprisingly, fairly priced for what you get. Thanks for the link! Always good to see high efficiency speakers with quality drivers. Definitely a solid alternative to the Tannoy and 604 Duplex loudspeakers. | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? You’ve heard the expression, "A Quart in a Pint Pot"? Yeah, like that. A little woofer sounds little. Maybe a 500-watt amplifier will make the 6.5" woofer sound bigger. Maybe. But I am dubious. Which is where subs come in. Two of them have twice ... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? From previous conversations, the T/S efficiency of the compact Revels appears to be in the 0.2% to 0.3% range. This would imply only 10 watts/channel are needed to reach 95 dB at a one meter distance. Allow another 2X for a 2 meter listening dista... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Sorry, not a JBL guy. "Smooth" is not the word that comes to mind when I think of JBL. They have their fans, I’m just not one of them. I prefer modern horns if possible ... see the Australian AH425 Azurahorn, which was designed by Bjorn Kolbrek u... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Oh, by the way, the Klipsch Cornwall is the most "civilized" of the classic Klipsch speakers, and in stock form has more or less flat response. The latest model is expensive, but there are lots and lots of beat-up old ones around (which are cheap)... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Kevemaher, I agree about the Zu’s. I’m not a fan of any speaker with whizzer cones ... mechanical crossovers have a whole host of problems that do not respond to electronic correction. (Mostly time-domain distortion and energy storage.) The lates... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? I should mention there are hard limits on the dynamics of a 2-way speaker with a 8" woofer and 1" dome tweeter. The only dynamic step upwards is a 3-way with a 10" or 12" woofer, 4" midrange, and 1" tweeter. But ... unless superbly engineered, 3-w... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Not interested in Revel, sorry. I would take Amir’s subjective opinion with a grain of salt, for the simple reason I have yet to meet any reviewer that has the same tastes as I do. I’ve been to their houses (not Amir’s) and didn’t like any of thei... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Well, if you want ruler-flat response and headroom, your choice is made for you: professional studio monitors, not audiophile-focused speakers. Audiophile speakers typically have woefully low efficiency, 85 to 88 dB/meter/watt, which is frankly as... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Hi Kevemaher! Hate to tell you this, but loudspeakers are very imperfect devices, and frankly there has only been limited progress over the last fifty years. The field is mostly limited by materials science and the cone and dome materials we have... | |
| 300B Tube Amps with 15/16 Watts Per Channel? There are oodles of 20 to 35 watt push-pull amps from the classical era of the 1950’s through the 1960’s. Most of the "mods" of these amps are nothing more than updating the coupling caps, which is a good idea anyway with an old electronic product... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? Two subs increases bass headroom by 6 dB, as well as significantly reduces peaks and nulls from room modes. You can’t EQ out a null, which can be 15 dB or more deep, and worse, the nulls are in different parts of the room, so even measuring them i... |