mitsound
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| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? Speakers are the most subjective link in the music chain of all, even tge moreso by being placed in a different room than whatever "typical" room they were designed for, and whatever electronics they may have been voiced for. To that end, after ma... | |
| High end speakers at low volume I gave up finding what I was after from pre-made a few years ago, and after a few hiccoughs made my own. I used a 97db wide range driver with a 91db efficient planar tweeter in a folded open baffle, sized to work with the driver QTS to make a pas... | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? That could well be right. I've gotten several preamplifier's and power amplifiers over the years, both tubed and solid state, yet here I am again, using my non remote, non surround Sumo Athena preamplifier in passive mode, including its built in ... | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? In my case it would be a tie between a Yamaha CT 1010 I bought second hand for about $30 in the mid eighties, and a Sumo Athena, which I picked up around 1992 for $100. Neither are the best of course, but I still use them every day, and have built... | |
| Are you interested in the new generation of "old school" design loudspeakers? The ease to the sound of larger drivers may be in part due to a three or four way having less Doppler distortion from the much shorter mid and upper midrange wavelengths riding along and launching from the woofer producing long deep bass wavelengt... | |
| What speakers work with low wattage class A amps After years of accepting the colorations of my 12 inch 96db full rangers, I just prototyped a pair of Bohlender Graebener 4 ohm satellites. They have a nice flat 4 ohm impedance, which my old style class A can deliver 15 watts to per channel. ... | |
| Transparency Yes, I've built and sold custom speakers for about 35.years, any kind I've come across. My idea with full range drivers was to simplify things as much as possible and still get the results I am after. Your comment to me has nothing to do with wi... | |
| Will increasing speaker cable AWG make a difference in sound quality? I was given some heavy networked speaker cables years ago, but changed to a much lighter easier to handle 8 stranded set of 13 gauge aggregate braided wire. No change for the worse, and having had my speakers apart, I know it's many times thicker... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Back to the past. Santana and some Headpins. | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? Responding to the first post. I had many boutique power cables from a few manufacturers, all stiff and unwieldy. Sitting on several metres of 4TC and 8TC wire, from a custom speaker cable order that cancelled, I listed them for sale at $1 a foot ... | |
| Fantasy or reality? Inexpensive solid state preamps that get you 80% there? Sometimes you get what you need in unlikely places. Over the years I've owned maybe a half dozen solid state and 4 tubed preamplifier's since first buying a used Sumo Athena. I always go back to it, like right now. After enquiring about improvi... | |
| "High end" store snobbery I have changed from buying new to pretty much happy with my system now, and it was built with components I wasn't willing to prioritize at new prices. The few times I did try trading in, salesmen explained they could take the trade, but as they ... | |
| Power cord length Not power cord related, although it involves timing- why are the windings in inductors and voice coils never mentioned as causing timing errors then? There are relatively vast differences in wire lengths between even a common 4.7mH inductor, a woo... | |
| Do I need 10 gauge power cord if I have 10 gauge from panel? It seems unlikely. Component power supplies are usually built with capacitors lage enough to store power beyond their staedy state demands, and supply power for transients much closer to the output devices than the power cord is. | |
| Power Cord for PS Audio Power Plant Premier? I don’t have many aftermarket power cords left, but tried out an old PSAudio 12 gauge Lab cable, Wireworld Aurora, and a Cardas Golden Cross. None improved things overall over the stock power cord, but in the interest of adequate gauge and ease o... |