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| How much power needed to drive 91db speakers? @curiousjim Take care of your ears. Above sone threshold, the louder you listen the more is the distortion, you can note this even in live performances, more in home audio. I didn't put that track on my system but I can try if you are interested i... | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear E.g., Poland, Greece, the Baltic countries. | |
| How much power needed to drive 91db speakers? An amplifier power in Watts is not an absolute measure of power. A standard example, 50 watts in a tube amp can be equivalent to double of Watts in a solid state amplifier. My 5 Watts SET amplifier drives surprisingly good my 87 DB speakers, my no... | |
| What is the most overlooked consideration? Synergy is of course important but room acoustics can be definitive. | |
| What is a good all around high quality speaker to purchase? You should be kidding when comparing Thiel speakers with Bose and Polk Audio speakers or having a wrong amplifier. Thiel 3.7s have outstanding mid and high frequencies, low frequencies are a bit weak. If you want deeper base, look for CS 6s or CS... | |
| Can using a bad tube hurt an amplifier? Yes. My SET amp was damaged (the capacitor below the tube and then other things, it was not easy to repair it) when an El-34 tube was blown up. In fact, I was in front of the amp watching how the tube was blown up, I powered the amp down but the ... | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? @westcoastaudiophile , in most of the sonic aspects including the power (per dolar of price - although it is well understandable that one cannot compare the real power per-watt, in general, of any SS amp with that of a tube one). The distortion... | |
| Genesis Genesis without Gabriel is like the Modern Jazz Quartet without Milt Jackson. | |
| Genesis Just note that Collins learned singing from Gabriel, it is quite clear Gabriel's influence on Collins formation. And I like more Genesis early albums with Peter Gabriel. | |
| Mid level listening Both things combine perfectly well. A good sound quality rises the degree of the enjoyment. | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? You can certainly have a class D amplifier which is better than many class A ones. Look at this as a gift of technology that gives you almost miracle results in terms of a cost, weight, size and energy consumption. | |
| Anyone wear gloves to handle vacuum tubes? I always touch the tubes using a soft clean tissue. Even while powering on and off the gear, if there is a clean tissue at hand I prefer to use it. | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? Recently I also thought that it's almost time to somehow round down, don't think that much about upgrades and enjoy the music. Still, some new upgrade ideas may come later but not necessarily so. It is important for me to have a feeling of stabili... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype I found that synchronizing my clock with the DAC, transport, and DDC took my digital sound to a new level This can be interesting. Could you be more specific on which kind of improvements you noticed with either the clock synchronization or you... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype I've come to the conclusion whomever believes most things ASR says doesn't have a very resolving system. Midfi at best. It's not the dac chip mainly it's the overall implementation. I've owned several dacs over the years and you get what you pay ... |