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| Which Snell Type A do I have? A-I or A-Original? I'm not sure what the white stuff is. It has been awhile since I've been inside of my snells. I assume you are not talking about white putty around the woofer itself around the dust cover... That is mass loading that needs to be replaced if you ha... | |
| more gain = more dynamics or less? Very helpful guys and thanks for keeping it high-level. I think my basic question is answered which is that inadequate gain can cause limited dynamic range. So I will seek the sweet spot in the middle.Thanks! | |
| Hum mystery - Crown K2 amp driving passive subs The mystery is solved. Why the Rotel didn't hum may be because it has a two-pronged plug and perhaps didn't carry the ground hum through. In any case, the hum disappears after four seconds with the Crown because my friend and tech discovered that ... | |
| Hum mystery - Crown K2 amp driving passive subs Yes the mains will be run full range. I took the amp to a friend's house and plugged it into his system and there was no 60 cycle hum however his house has no third wire... two prong plugs only. But whatever noise such as to brush Etc came out of... | |
| Upgrades to Sota Cosmos IV Do any of you know whether the maglev bearing would have any effect in reducing groove noise or other record noise? Or does it only reduce low frequency "rumble" of the bearing? I currently have an old star sapphire vacuum but am thinking of buyin... | |
| Was the Snell Secret a Wide Baffle? I have found that it is difficult to attribute a certain type of sound with a single design element like baffle width, material used in the drivers, time algnment, etc. Its always about the overall execution that combines so many factors. But I a... | |
| Advice on SUT for Koetsu Rosewood - EAR MC-4, Slagle/EMIA, other There was definitely some luck involved but it offsets all the times I have been unlucky with equipment failures, red herring issues, ghosts, phantoms, and just pure stupidity! All the fun of music and audiophilia.I would like to understand why th... | |
| Advice on SUT for Koetsu Rosewood - EAR MC-4, Slagle/EMIA, other Reporting back on the effect of adding Dave slagle's 1:20 Copper SUT to my Berning pre and Koetsu Rosewood Signature. In short, everything is back. The gorgeous tonal balance and graceful top end of the Bernng remain, but now all the Dynamics hav... | |
| Advice on SUT for Koetsu Rosewood - EAR MC-4, Slagle/EMIA, other Barolobrain: Firat of all you may need to explain your username to me (expiring minds want to know).Second, I did not realize these Jensen Transformers had optional configurations. If I could have mine required to 1:12 or 1:24 that would be inter... | |
| SOTA Cosmos and other models - lean sounding? Yeah man! Jeez, the Cosmos is second string? | |
| Advice on SUT for Koetsu Rosewood - EAR MC-4, Slagle/EMIA, other Ralph, I will ask Dave Slagle what he thinks about my setup and loading. The original sound tradition Hashimoto hm-7 I tried had an even higher winding ratio such as 1:30 I think. It sounded pretty amazing with 29dB gain. But it was a little too b... | |
| Advice on SUT for Koetsu Rosewood - EAR MC-4, Slagle/EMIA, other After after all our exchanges, which I appreciate so much, I decided an experiment might be useful. So I am buying a used Intact Audio 1:20 copper SUT to just try and see how different it sounds from my internal 1:8-ish Jensens in my Berning pre.... | |
| Advice on SUT for Koetsu Rosewood - EAR MC-4, Slagle/EMIA, other Again my ignorance raises its head, but would the ideal windng ratio for the non-platinum be different? I believe the impedances are the same but the output is .4mv for mine, not .3mv (platinum). I imagine the answer is yes as long as there would... | |
| Advice on SUT for Koetsu Rosewood - EAR MC-4, Slagle/EMIA, other Thank you Atmasphere! the Berning preamp has loading plugs for the moving coil section but if I understand what you're saying correctly those are for the INPUT side whereas you think the Jensen transformers themselves may need loading on the out... | |
| Advice on SUT for Koetsu Rosewood - EAR MC-4, Slagle/EMIA, other I have only owned the berning preamp I have only owned the berning preamp for 2 months so this is not a change that happened over time. I I think I may have mentioned that my time with the Hashimoto sut was very limited but the impression of dyn... |