pauly
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| Amp damping factor? ?? An amp doesn't have a damping factor. Damping factor is the ratio of the rated impedance of the loudspeaker to the source impedance. In other words, you can only calculate a damping factor when you have a speaker amplifier combination.What you ... | |
| Baby Steps back to Tubes. Go with a solid state amp with the NHTs. Any speaker with an impedance curve that varies a lot across its frequency range is generally not a good match for a tube amp. | |
| SET with inefficient speakers On their website Dali claims to have a very flat impedance curve. If so, you'll be able to drive your Dali well with a 10wpc SE amp w/o much problems.BTW, I drove 88db efficient speakers with a homerolled 2.5 wpc amp and the bass was astonishing. ... | |
| Which speakers are higher efficiency? Agreed with JohnK, neither two speakers you are a good match for a SE tube amp. Sensitivity is only one factor you must look at; more importantly is a benign impedance curve. You should consider one of Johns speakers (KCS), Cain and Cain or Carder... | |
| Choice of Koetsu cartridges? One of the platinums. | |
| Best way to store a cart Thanks for the ideas. The oxygen absorber & glass jar sounds like a great idea. | |
| Shakti Stones Do they actuall work guys. Rapogee, there are sound scientific reason why items such as powercord and isolation devices can influence and alter the sound of a system. And you correct that some will influence some devices more than others.Unfortunately, there is no scientifi... | |
| Sound reflecting panel Rather absorb the reflections on the left side. You can buy some absorbtion panels that don't look bad at all which should solve your problems (or at least improve things) While you're at it, do the same for your ceiling.RegardsPaul | |
| KAB 1200 vs. everything else. 12-26-08: Tvad Pauly, I mentioned twice before in this thread that I have used an AT150Mlx in my analog rig. You wouldn't consider the $250 AT150Mlx "over carting" the Technics, would you?No I wouldnt. The Dyna XXII on a SL is over carting and... | |
| KAB 1200 vs. everything else. Tvad, I agree with your comments as to what constitutes an analogue front end table, arm, cart, phono cable etc. etc. Many folks conveniently leave out items such as cabling and phono stages in their costing.I mentioned earlier that you have t... | |
| High efficient speakers You may want to consider some single driver speakers, especially back loaded horns such as carder or kcs. They present a very benign load to a vacuum tue amp that really brings out the best from the amp.RegardsPaul | |
| KAB 1200 vs. everything else. Tvad, with all due respect you are expecting too much from the Technics. The KAB modified tables are fine tables, but by sticking on expensive peripherals (and I use the term peripherals loosely) like a 2K cart and 5K phono youll only end up reve... | |
| Coupling caps, upgrade, similar values David, it depends in what part of the circuit the coupling cap is located.If the cap is between two amplifying stages within the same amplifier/pre-amplifier, it is safest to keep the capacitance as close as to standard as possible. Going bigger c... | |
| Black gate "N" & "NX" series how long to breakin BG "N"s are astonishingly good. To my ear they are better than many premium film caps. Not sure how they make lytics sound quite that good but I sure wish somebody would continue with the BG range of caps. Especially the N and V range.RegardsPaul | |
| Black gate "N" & "NX" series how long to breakin Very very long ... I never bothered to watch the clock but mine took a few weeks running 24x7 before they started settling.Mine was used in the MC stage of a phono, so yours may settle a bit quicker. regardsPaul |