raquel
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| looking for best speakers to match with small 25w "25 watt tube amplifier" and "tight/fast bottom end" are generally mutually exclusive.I love tube amps (and use tube monoblocks in my main system), but aside from the megabuck ones, the bottom end most tube amps produce, regardless of the speaker,... | |
| SET for Orchestral , Big Band etc. Provided you have highly efficient speakers with a reasonably high minimum impedence (95 db.+ efficiency and minimum 6 Ohm impedence), a very well built single-ended amp that puts out 15+ watts/channel will generate high sound pressure levels. You... | |
| Record Damage and Conical and Shibata Styluses RCA was evidently a subsidiary of JVC:"RCA was one of the first companies to release quadraphonic product in the United States with it's line of Quadraphonic 8-Track cartridges. (These early "quad-8" tapes can be distinguished from the more common... | |
| Record Damage and Conical and Shibata Styluses The Shibata was developed for RCA's quadrophonic program ("CD 4") in the early 70's, as they needed a sharp stylus that could track the then-very high frequency 30 kHz. carrier signal that held the musical information for the back two channels. Th... | |
| VdH VTA setting preferences The van den Huls are known to be "artisanal' in the sense of variation from one cartridge to the next for a given model. Nsgarch's findings that one stylus was spot on and the other a bit off is consistent with this reputation.A line-contact stylu... | |
| VdH VTA setting preferences Nsgarch:God forbid I would be associated with the Intelligent Designers.I don't doubt that you're right -- I'm sure you are -- maybe it's just that "ass (pivot) end down" is what it takes to get the vdH "spade"-shaped stylii seated in the grooves ... | |
| VdH VTA setting preferences I can only second what Cincy_bob has added. It just sounds best this way to me.FYI, I run my Frog into a Rowland Cadence loaded at 400 Ohms. | |
| VdH VTA setting preferences I have a vdH Frog and followed the instructions on the van den Hul website for setting VTA, which does indeed advise that the arm be slightly raised at the pivot end. After much experimentation, I was still not satisfied that I was getting everyth... | |
| Best 10K Speaker I own Mahlers (and Salons).Assuming you have a large room (Sumiko, the U.S. distributor, actually recommends Mahlers over Amatis if you have a large room) and are careful about pairing them with the right speaker cables and a fast solid-state amp ... | |
| Manly Steelhead - any downside?? Hi Shane:Cincy_bob is correct on all points. Where did you get the impression that the Steelhead is lean?Best regards. | |
| Revel Tweet Break-in after repairs Why on earth are you sending the speaker back? The tweeter can be replaced by anyone with an Allen wrench and a soldering iron.Harmon is not insisting that you return the speaker because of some warranty policy, are they?You'd need to talk to your... | |
| The Levinson 33h? Pros and cons? You may have a bit more headroom if you are bi-amping with four 400 series amps, but the 33H (and 33) use power regeneration, and feature better parts quality than the roughly half the price 400 series (the 33H and 33 were designed and made at the... | |
| Dunlavy Speakers SC-III vs. SC IV The III's have dual 7' woofers, while the IV's have dual 10" woofers. The IV's therefore have deeper bass and higher peak loudness. The midrange drivers and tweeter are identical.Both are 6 ft. tall, the III's being reasonably thin, and IV's being... | |
| Do small preamp tubes 12ax7 need to be matched? Palasr is correct on all points.I would only add that perhaps the bigger issue is whether to bother with (i.e., pay for) tubes that are "low-noise" in the context of preamps. While it obviously depends upon the preamp, my experience is that low no... | |
| What Was Thrown Off the Tallahatchie Bridge? Mary Jo Kopechne. |