mapman
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| Why does most new music suck? ITs mostly just the culmination of what started back in the day largely with Elvis, The BEatles, etc., ie popular music is now all about money, not just mostly. Also increasingly visual these days given that music alone does not sell as well as it... | |
| New lease on life for a pair of Ohm F's Well, the options are out there.1) rebuild what you have if you can find someone to do it right for a price you can afford2) Dale Harder rebuild or new drivers3) OHM upgradeIf it were me, I would not dismiss the OHM upgrade option until I did an i... | |
| Why does most new music suck? "people who think new music sucks are not exploring music enough, there is plenty out there."Most popular music is more of a fusion of styles these days. You hear it more and more even in perhaps the most mindless forms like dance music. Its a goo... | |
| New lease on life for a pair of Ohm F's ZAvato,I used to work at Tech HiFI and recall the EPI 100s quite well.THey were pretty decent for the day but nothing to compare to Fs or most well designed modern day speakers, including modern OHMs. | |
| Why does most new music suck? There is lots of good new music. Not so much great new complete albums, like ones from the classic rock artists referenced. Recordings are mixed differently to fit the ways most people listen to music these days. "The Times They Are A Changing" is... | |
| Why does an audiophile grade power cord matter? Please define "audiophile grade".Thanks. | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? I worked at Radio Shack for 5 years or so back in its hifi heyday. Those were my least favorite popular RS speakers. Tried to talk people out of buying them, except maybe when a good sale ran. They always sounded like all the bad stereotype things... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss I suppose another scenario would be like Petepapp describes, and you want to preserve your hearing. Soft clipping may be a good thing there, so a smaller tube amp might fit the bill for a full range solution with smaller speakers. | |
| high power tube amps vs ss Of course, for full range scenario, nothing wrong with using a low power SS amp in place of a tube amp. Or a larger tube amp with smaller speakers, although this is where the size and power required of the tube amp will result in limited good choi... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss So, individual technical peeves and preferences aside, in the end here are things I think really matter regarding choice of amp and speakers to match.1) If limited frequency range down to only 50-60 hz or so is your game, the world is your oyster.... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I was re-reading a detailed technical review with detailed bench measurements of the older Walsh 200 mkII Here.The impedance measured mostly between 8 and 25 ohms for most of the frequency range, down to 40 hz or so where the port kicks in, at whi... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss Audiogon often seems a magnet for unique or differing perspectives on good sound. SS is old hat and boring. Does not attract much attention these days as a technology. Class D amps are newer and get a lot of attention here. Tubes are cooler and mo... | |
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| When an amp puts out 90 watts.... I have seen some pnm impedance measures in stereophile that show wide impedance flucuations from 4 to 16 ohms at various frequencies. Far frm the constant high impedance that an amp like that would probably do best with. | |
| When an amp puts out 90 watts.... Fin, I think that is indicative of sn amp with higher output impedance, usually but not always an attribute of tube amps. An amp like that will probably perform best into higher impedance speakers, ie 16ohms, which is not common. Its a special bre... |