mapman
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| Speakers to big room I know tube amps are popular with high sensitivity designs like those, but I wonder if insufficient damping could be the culprit? Tube amps have higher output impedance which results in lower damping. Have you ever tried a SS amp with very high da... | |
| Single driver point source speakers vs. the world? Any comments on some the dula driver point source designs out there? Like Tannoys for instance. How do these compare to single driver point source and perhaps other higher efficiency designs out there these days? | |
| Good Sound under $500 I've heard the Ushers you like.Triangle Titus XS or Comete with sub used might give the Ushers a good comparative run but for much less in your price range.I've run my Titus XS with an M&K sub and will say when dialed in the resulting sound is... | |
| Speakers to big room NEver heard those Tannoys but they look very nice! Are you sure you have the right amp to max out the performance with those speakers? I am not familair with your amp so cannot say, but I would confirm that first before changing speakers if you li... | |
| Best amp for my needs? I've heard stereo pair sound very good run off a Krell integrated so Krell/ML struck me as a good pairing.Same true off of Classe amps years ago. Not sure if Classe does multi channel though?Wyred 4 Sound is another line that I think I would want ... | |
| best position of components in relation to spkers? I have my gear including turntable along the left hand wall towards rear of the 12X12 room and use 18' Audioquest cv6 speaker wires.This setup works great and is the cat's meow!YMMV. | |
| Single driver point source speakers vs. the world? No discussion of single driver point source speakers would be complete without considering these:Walsh Exotic Speakers | |
| solid state vs tubes The m4.0t I had did very well with Magnepan mg1c speakers for years delivering a lot of tube-like attributes in the sound. Most notably, zero fatigue....the longer you listened, the longer you wanted to listen. I cannot go so far as to say the sou... | |
| Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths One thing for sure, those old and often somewhat austere tables sure look a heck of a lot better in a nice, shiny, big new plinth! That alone is worth something! | |
| solid state vs tubes "It is true that the soft clipping of tubes means you will get less of the odd-ordered harmonics, but this has nothing to do with dynamic range."Less loudness cues perhaps then. If you perceive the peaks as less loud because that is how people hea... | |
| solid state vs tubes Hifi,Yes, I think each person has their own goals and motivations that determine the right solution for them. Each approach has its own strengths and weaknesses with considerable overlap possible.In my case, my speakers are the determining factor.... | |
| solid state vs tubes Hmm, not sure I see a consensus that use of negative feedback is always categorically a negative. It seems to be debatable at best.The soft clipping characteristics of tube amps in general seems to be pretty widely accepted. Soft clipping means th... | |
| solid state vs tubes As a corollary, here are a few factors that might push one into the stereotypical (no pun intended) soft clipping/tube amp camp rather than the stereotypical SS one. 1) recordings must be played too loudly in order to hear subtle details (increasi... | |
| solid state vs tubes There is a technique in image processing called contrast stretching. Essentially it means if you clip off the extreme bright and dark extents of the image or picture, you can then stretch out what remains and often show subtle contrast details tha... | |
| solid state vs tubes Swamp,It seems much of the argument revolves around how amps distort, in particular how they distort when clipping occurs.My understanding is that no amp should normally be run in a manner where clipping occurs. If it does occur, then a different ... |