rower30
Responses from rower30
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? I have an over thirty year old APT Labs amplifier that is still running a pair of old 1979 B&W 801's! Yes, it's a 100-watt amp into 8-ohms and runs near clipping all the time. It sounds fine.Electrolytics are no better than +/- 20% tolerance s... | |
| Is an amp the next upgrade path for me? Advice... I'd say at the volumes you play, you stand to really do some damage to things. Big loud sound on a small budget is burned out tweeters.Based on THAT fact of volume (each 3dB is about TWICE the power), I'd go to the ODYSSEY site and look at some go... | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? Let's see...we see a big voltage drop across the power cord, but ignore that TINY little device called a FUSE that EVERYTHING power related goes through!Wow,I guess a $200.00 Rotel integrated amp would be simply crazy good if we bypass the fuse. W... | |
| Good Tube Amp w/Quatros? Remember, you are trying to get the best sound you can from your Quatros, not to just use tubes.Quatros have great advantages to getting tubes to sound good;1.0 Super easy impedance.2.0 Main amplifier isn't really driving the bass, a tube weak spo... | |
| Good Tube Amp w/Quatros? I would listen for an extened session with your equipment before making a decision.I auditioned a Conrad Johnson CT3 SE, and the "tube" mystic just didn't get it with me. They cropped the top off detail and transients. Sure, they never sounded "br... | |
| DynAudio C4 _ Explodes my sonic perspective Well, I have them with about 200 hours time break-in. They are (as were the Quatro's) really strange during break-in. Remember, I changed the amplifier, preamp and speakers at the same time. The pre-amp was in my Quatro system, so I know the XP-10... | |
| Review: Pass Labs XP-10 Preamplifier This could get interesting. I bought a McCormack RLD-1 and sent it directly to SMc Audio for upgrades. It will be fun to see what the two vintage audio gurus can do, Nelson Pass and Steve McCormack. I LOVE the XP-10 from 200Hz on up, but the last ... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Until they settle on a true supported digital format (and I doubt that FLACK is it) and address the STUPID prices on essentially PC hardware I can't get too excited about hi-res audio. No easy to obtain source material, obsolescence a real certain... | |
| Review: Pass Labs XP-10 Preamplifier I'll have to keep you posted as I move to Dynaudio C4 II signature speakers. I do like a solid and stiff bass with some punch. Bigger speakers just seem to do this much better. Yes, this is entertainment and I'll color as needed to suit my taste. ... | |
| Favorite Pre Amp and Amp with Vandersteen? I'm using a XP-10 with a McCormack DNA-225 with Quatro woods. The detail the Quatro's extract with this preamp is really nice. The buzzwords are micro dynamics and noise floor retrieval.The only upgrade would maybe be a touch more bass impact. But... | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? Plants run THHN wire in flexible and solid conduit all day and night. It's SAFER than ROMEX run bare inside your walls! Yes, flexible conduit is UGLY in your house, but the NEC, which the fire marshal follows, allows this circuit. People confuse f... | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? ROMEX is 100% soft annealed copper, it is simply the AWG size that limits flex. You can run equivalent AWG stranded copper cords straight from the box (hard-wire, no connectors)to your device. AC is 60 cycle, it only knows resistance (AWG size). Y... | |
| Thiel model 3.7 - nice speaker. No, I run my Quatro's dead flat per the EQ data. The eleven band equalizer smooths the room signature peaks and dips, it doesn't eliminate it. Simple laws of physics say a box the size of the Quatro (3.7 is about the same volume) and about the sam... | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? We had a customer actually bury 9/16" SOLID copper rod in his wood floor to his speaker terminals from the power amp. And, he ran the ROMEX into his power supply. Way cheaper than the silly cord. If you have a power conditioner, the power cords ma... | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? Yep, and the IEC plug is rated at just TEN amps. Count them; 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 AMPS! That's all you get. A far cry from what people realize. The conductors in the cord are NOT dropping the voltage you are measuring. Can't be true. You are measu... |