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| Step Down Transformer Actually, you need a step-up transformer or convertor. Most electronics stores (maybe not Rat Shack) carry some cheap convertors and that's all you need to drive a motor. A few hundred watts is all that's needed. Don't be worried about any audioph... | |
| Achieving Preamp nirvana with a SF Line 3? It is more neutral than many tube preamps but still has that organic quality. Very good bass and dynamics, maybe even a touch exagerated. Smeared highs with the stock Sovteks that should be replaced. Much better with XLR. Even better with balanced... | |
| MBL 101e's vs. Soundlab U-1's Can't help you decide but I can add to the confusion by suggesing you should listen to Genesis 201's. | |
| Tweeter quest Since that PMC is all active, perhaps the DEQX would help with the conversion, among other things. | |
| New Subpanel? If you're feeding it 220, make sure it has dual buses. | |
| Tweeter quest Had a friend convert the soft domes in his Dunlavy's. He found some that were a direct fit but required lots of playing with caps and resistors to pad them in. Fried one or two in the process. Even replaced the ribbon elements with aluminum foil.h... | |
| Using a 220v amplification equipment in the US I've used convertors on source equiptment and converted, internally to 110V. Shouldn't have bothered, convertor sounded better by small degree but had a bit of mechanical hum. Trying to find a convertor with the current for amplifiers might be a c... | |
| Canadian Musicians Downchild Blues BandPowder BluesBelieve it or not, Lee Aaron is singing Jazz now. | |
| Can tube preamps be as 'detailed' sounding as ss? MachmanYou lose your forum cherry with the tube vs transistor argument and you nailed it, first time. | |
| Recommendations on Bohlender Graebener 512's The BG's have a great midrange but have a limit on upper and lower extension by the nature of those large ribbons. Wisdom uses proprietary ribbons and Genesis added tweeters.Brian at VMPS might have something if you don't mind tacking another pair... | |
| Transformer noise including Powervar I've been playing with transformers for the past year or so in several configurations, including TVC's, autoformers, power, isolation and balancing. I've made every mistake imaginable and managed to make them work. What I've learned is that they'r... | |
| Infinity Kappa 9's The 9's are a notorious load that dip below 1 0hm. Many amps will see that as a short and automatically shut down . For amps, consider Aragon 8008 and Palladium monos or Spectron. There is no such thing as overkill for those speakers but, as your ... | |
| Isolating the listening chair? Did you suspend it above a beehive? | |
| Isolating the listening chair? My chair is made entirely out of myrtle wood blocks and sorbothane. Further, I hang it from the ceiling with aviation cable and springs. The trampoline was too big to fit in the listening room. | |
| Pass Labs users. Next upgrade? I'm surprised. Pass amps and passive pre's aren't usually a happy marriage because of low sensitivity and impedance. My ex would agree.Tube pre's like BAT, Manley, and VTL would tame the highs, perhaps too much with Sovteks. The Pass pre's are hig... |