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| Most Beautiful Receiver / Integrated - Ever was... ? My vote will have to go to the Technics SE-A5 and its later siblings the SE-A1000, SE-A5000 etc. This 35-year old design is just about as fresh today as it was when tit came out in the early 80’s.https://www.flickr.com/photos/48136705@N05/14254248... | |
| Help me get started again. Tube amp... Since you can DIY and are also somewhat familiar with the ST70, I would suggest that you look into a VTA ST-120 over at tubes4hifi. It is I would say. somewhat based on the old Dynaco but much improved. The input and driver circuit utilizes a Mull... | |
| Know a Good NYC Electrician for Dedicated Lines? Nori Komuro is a notable designer in the SET amplifier field. He is a degreed electrical engineer but owns and operates an electrical contracting business in NYC. Being an amp designer, I am sure he understands house electrical wiring as it pertai... | |
| High eff. Musical warm bookshelves for a 45 amp? The model "One Pi" from Pi speakers. It seems to be pretty sensitive at an honest 94db/m with a bening impedance curve for an SET amp. At 12"x18", it's not a mini-monitor, but likely as small as you're going to find, while being fairly efficient w... | |
| 1.2k Output Impedance to 10k Input Impedance The preamp to amp relationship is the same as the amp-speaker one as far as source-load pairings go. Just as not all amps are created equal when driving speakers, so it is with preamps when driving amps. Nobody knows better than the preamp's desig... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Atmasphere,I tend to agree with most of what you've said. In addition to these points I'll add that the distribution of the harmonic spectra is also important: their amplitutes should be inversely proportional to the order of the harmonic(ie. 3rd&... | |
| Why aren't ALL remotes like Playstation PS3 ? I'll now go do my taxes on the Oppo and then get to some CAD drawings which by the way will look great on either the plasma or the projector.All kidding aside, the only advantage the Oppo offers, is in DVD playback because of the ABT chip. BR pict... | |
| Why aren't ALL remotes like Playstation PS3 ? As a Blu-Ray player the PS3 is just as good or very near the equal of any high-end audio/videophool-approved BR player - don't knock it. | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Horns sure have their fans, but to my ears, they sound nasty. To each his own, YMV, etc.,etc..Unsound,I agree that horns can sound harsh and have colorations and just plain sound bad, but what loudspeaker technology doesn't have it's bad examples?... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Kana,Oops! Guess you're right.Although this is the case it should also be known that the Dream Maker uses the same drivers arranged back and front in a bi-pole configuration, so it's sonic signature should be close to that of the monopole. | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic "Bear in mind mastering engineers compress the crap out of what you mostly can buy in recorded music - so you won't always achieve realism except on recordings where dynamics have been deliberately preserved"Excellent point, very well said and per... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Shadorne,Thanks, and right you are about the tweeter sized woofer voice coils of the north european drivers. Very well put.To further my point, let me say that in addition to the Summas' reviews that more than anything else cite that speaker's unr... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Pacific,Your argument about home audio listening is valid if you listen at fairly low average spl levels of lets say, around 75db. Because for a good sense of dynamics a loudspeaker must be able to easily handle 20db peaks above the average level ... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Dave,Dr. Geddes teamed up and went into a partnership with a music producer / sound engineer to manufacture and market pro-sound loudspeakers. The company, AI Audio is based and operates out of Thailand. The ESP15 is the Summa, using the same driv... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Dave,On the above links you will just gonna have to scroll down a bit to get to the posts that I am referring to. I agree that the site needs work if he is going to promote the product but Dr. Geddes is a scientist and an author and places more em... |