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| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” Long ago I helped - well, stood around uselessly - at a recording of a choral concert in a chapel at an Oxford college. We had a coincident pair of crossed ribbons(good ones) feeding directly a set of Quad ELS’s via Quad II amplifiers, all set up... | |
| Amplifier stability with very low impedance, high efficiency mid/tweeter section??? There is another, very serious issue that no-one has mentioned. An amplifier will often - usually - run into stability issues when it is loaded by a reactive load. An ESL looks like a capacitor to an amplifier, and that means it’s stability marg... | |
| Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse? Every so often I suggest that a simple way to upgrade your system is to wrap all the fuses with aluminum foil, including those in your main power box (or the circuit breakers, same thing). The reason being that high frequencies go through the sur... | |
| Power Amplifiers A pair of the original Quad ELS speakers. Together with an original Naim amp bought directly from Julian Vereker, they sit in a closet while I listen to a Sanders Sound system which is in every way better. Still I like just having them! I’ve al... | |
| Spatial Audio open baffle speakers, who has them? Worthwhile change from Maggies? For this sort of money, and enough space for planars, you owe it to yourself to checkout the Sanders Sound hybrids - electrostatic midrange and treble, transmission line bass, bi-amped with the bass amp included. The electronic cross-over include... | |
| Frustrated with Vinly The overload margin of the phono stage is a critical aspect of the noise issue. The noise sources have a very fast rise time, and even though the RIAA curve turns them down, the feedback loop of the phono stage can get quite upset. Also, a cartr... | |
| Best tonearm for London Reference Cartridge I've been using the Jubilee with a Well-tempered Amadeus turntable and arm. It is a match made in heaven. You have to fill the damping cup with goop, but when you do it seems to track faultlessly. I also had some hum problems but a better set o... | |
| Highest detail cartridges I agree with the poster who mentioned the Decca cartridges. However the tone arm used is critical - the cartridge has ver’y little damping and so the tone arm has to be very well damped. Far and away the best combination I’ve found is the London... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( Thanks to trickle-down economics, combined with the idea that corporations are in business purely to make as much money as possible, we now have a highly stratified society with wealth extremely concentrated at the top. A million dollar system is... |