paulfolbrecht
Responses from paulfolbrecht
| 45 tube types I cannot believe nobody has posted this yet, but the best 45s are actually NEW PRODUCTION anyway - TJ (Full Music) and EML.They are not cheap but last a long time. | |
| Why terminations on speaker cable? FYI, I am now running a pr of Clear Day solid-core silver cables, unterminated, and they are GOOD (and cheap). I won't say what they are replacing but they are substantially better and considerably cheaper. Noticed smoother mids and especially bet... | |
| Where does your user name come from? Glory, how dare you say something religious in this haven of secular humanism (also a religion). You're lucky all you got was raised eyebrows.My username sounds suspiciously like what my mother used to call me, although I think there was another s... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more I had reminded myself to mention Daedalus in this thread and it slipped my mind. These are indeed excellent speakers, some of the best around, and they are indeed SET-compatible, but perhaps only higher-power SET.I had an older pair of DA1s which ... | |
| Scout drive upgrade FYI, VPI has told me they will do a Scout rim drive soon, and I intend to try it.Properly isolated and setup, the bone-stock Scout already takes far more money to substantially better it. I would expect the rim drive to take it significantly furth... | |
| Why terminations on speaker cable? Elizabeth, rolling my own is exactly what I did back in college (and I am talking about speaker wire).I really do not think bare wire causes any greater chance of shorting - some spades I've had are so big that on some amps one rotating can cause ... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more Mapman, driving a speaker with a class D amp does not mean that you get the liveliness and emotive capability that high-efficiency speakers seem to bring. The point of HE is more than just drivability. And, while in general ICE, Tripath, and other... | |
| Scout drive upgrade Ok, you are rather right - I contradicted myself. I complained of lack of speed stability and a speed controller will certainly address that.I think the motor drive with the rubber belt has issues other than speed stability, actually - it may just... | |
| Why terminations on speaker cable? I should have mentioned I like solid-core wire. Stranded would indeed pose some issues.I see that Mapleshade sells a nice, simple, unterminated speaker cable. Silver-place solid-core copper. Cool! | |
| Scout drive upgrade I knew I should have said "no SDS". :) When I had an ultra-tricked out Scoutmaster setup a few years ago I had it, and found *little* difference. I have very clean AC.I don't think that's the problem.I think a Scout rim drive could be killer and i... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more The Avantgarde speakers (especially the Trio) can be quite good *when setup right* and everything gels.But the best hi-effeciency speaker - and the best speaker, period - that I have ever heard is the Cogent horn system with their field-coil compr... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more Funny story - when I had a Trio audition it was so bad I felt compelled to feign death in order to escape. To make the sale convincingly I popped a drug that lowered my heart rate and respiration to almost imperceptible levels - and woke up just a... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more I owned AN/Es (HE Kit 3s - basically equivalent to the factory SpE HE) and TL-D1s together for several months and went back and forth between them often. I think I can speak to their differences pretty well.The Tonians are significantly faster and... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more The Lamhorn is very good - can be forward.The Beauhorn is also very good, quite a bit smoother, but less heft.Of course neither of these have any real highs (and if you 'throw in a super-tweeter' you're now building your own speaker).Devore are gr... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? People that appear to have drawn conclusions about passives without considering the critical issues - the impedances & voltages involved - haven't drawn meaningful conclusions.A well-known member here could not find any active better than his ... |