rleff
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| Amp advice for Sound Lab M-2's Chris-did you ever use the mod from jafox for the brillancecontrol in your speaker;if you did,how were your results? | |
| Amp advice for Sound Lab M-2's thanks Ralph | |
| Amp advice for Sound Lab M-2's Ralph;if you pop your head back onto this thread;I have m2's with impedance mods;would your 60 watt amp with the autoformers drive these;I don't listen to large SPL's on my m2's; music is mostly vocals,jazz and acoustic but sometimes pink floyd do... | |
| mono versus stereo ampflication What speakers and pre amp do you have in mind???I would select monoblocks from the choices given so far;keep speaker cables shorter;maybe even use balanced cables if the option exists as longer runs from the pre amp would now be possible if you ca... | |
| Tube amplifier bad caps I would pay attention to Ralph's (atmasphere) comments. | |
| Class A Amp Here is a amp that can do it and heat the room up as well:Atmasphere's MA3;specs are:500 watts/channel, 2-16 ohms Bandwidth 1-100KHz within .5 db IM distortion: 0.04% at full power Input impedance 100K single-ended, 200K balanced, selectable to 60... | |
| Used Dunlavy V's - what if they 'break' I had a pair of scIII's and blew a tweeter;madisound have replacements available;they also matched a pair of them for me at a small extra cost several years ago;great support. | |
| "Breathing" of the air I think tvad and atmasphere (ralph) probally hit it correctly;but there sure a lot of other points of view to consider as well.Mrtennis there a lot of recordings in which I can hear a artist/player take a breath;or the valves of a instrument openi... | |
| Best speaker under $1K...... used market I would look for a pair of snell c4 or c5's. | |
| Which is the most tubelike solid state amp around Maybe a mccormack dna-1;I had a pair of these as monoblocks driving merlin 4b+'s and dunlavy scIII's;very tubelike in the mid frequency range;also odyssey's mono extreme se's fit the bill as well.Better yet a moscode 401hr or the new 402;30 day in... | |
| Repairing older amps I would consider Odyssey amps;maybe even a phone call to Klaus as he might have some B stock he would sell at a reduced price;this is what he did for me on a deal for mono extreme SE's.Odyssey products have a 20 year warranty that is transferable;... | |
| IYO, Best speaker for rock music under $1k Snell CIV's or CV's work very well for rock;they show up used now and then. | |
| EL34 Lovers? I have jj kk88's in my cary slam 100 mono's and love the music they make with my soundlab m2's; never have been able to audition a tube amp with the el34's though. | |
| New preamps making new claims. Pay attention to Tvad's advice its solid;what pre amp,or pre amps have you visa card moving around? | |
| Amp advice for Sound Lab M-2's I think you maybe missing the boat going solid state on the m2's. Do you know if they have the impedance mods and diffusion ring?If you can you should try a tube amp at least to see what these speakers can really do; The wolcott mentioned earlier ... |