paulfolbrecht
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| Who has found happiness giving up on DACs? There are also definitely performance increases to doing so, potentially. | |
| Who has found happiness giving up on DACs? You have a DAC - it's in your CD player.There is no difference between trying/using CD players and trying/using stand-alone DACs with some transport. | |
| Older Altec horn speakers FWIW, I bought a pr of (absolutely mint, one-owner) 1977 Model 19s and am very impressed. Especially on a fairly tight budget, these things are very impressive. Only downsize is the weight & size, if you consider those things negatives.You can... | |
| why aren't ribbon tweeters more popular? I actually think the main reason is that they are difficult to integrate with dynamic drivers.Tonian does it extremely well, somehow.They also don't have the dynamic snap of a cone tweeter. | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Gopher,Thanks for your (further) feedback. I may be in the market for a toddler-friendly HE speaker in the near-mid future and at a bargain price as I've drastically reduced my audio budget (and suffered little in doing so).As I think I mentioned ... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Hey Bill,Don't you think the AA PX-25 would rock the Souls? I have a hard time believing not. As everyone knows that is one ballsy amp that can respectfully drive ~90 dB/6-ohm nominal speakers.That said, talk of amp "requirements" are next to mean... | |
| Best high-efficiency speaker under 10K I was not unfortunately able to hear the more expensive Tonian models. I owned Beauhorns and they are very good, but pretty bandwidth-limited as you said. What they bring is smoothness missing from almost all Lowther speakers. Front-loading the dr... | |
| Best high-efficiency speaker under 10K Don't buy anything without hearing the Audio Note AN/E Spe and the Tonian models.DeVore are very nice speakers but not really HE, and they don't sound like it. Yes a 300B will drive them but they do not give the dynamics and nuance of an HE speake... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Gopher,Yes, the WC is a copy of the concept - probably Vinnie deserves the credit for that (almost certainly). It is an amp that gives a large portion of the same performance at around 15% of the price. For some, that is very appealing. | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Regarding the Blessing of the Wineclone, the amp is simply a battery-powered Tripath amp. There's no patent on that - very simple idea - and no need for anyone's blessing. | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Gopher - FYI, I have one of these Wineclones, and it is a good amp. In fact it is very good for the money. | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Zanon,The thing is that "Class D" is just a general classification and in fact various "class D" amps have almost nothing in common. In the implementation, that is. In terms of sound, there is probably some general overlap. But to me a (say) Red W... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Zanon, if you can't tell the different between a Tripath and an ICE amp, you probably can't tell the difference between an EL34 and KT88 or a 2A3 and 300B either. | |
| what percentage of us really knows sound Juan,Merlin speakers are not really capable of reproducing dynamic range properly. And so I now know something about your system & your ears.We could say that, if C is the "coefficient of audio realism" - the factor that tells us how closely a... | |
| 2A3 Set power amp The amp you are considering is almost certainly a push-pull design using the 2A3 DHT.The answer you should get is that the sensitivity of the speaker is nowhere near enough information to determine how well it would work with such an amp. If it is... |