russ69
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| Make Magnepan LRS Better You need to get your ear at the same height as the center of the panel. So you must have low furniture, be height challenged, or get tall stands. All three methods work. | |
| how can low watt tube amps drive speakers with higher power requirements If you buy a lot of equipment over the years you will find out that consumer grade receivers at 100 wpc have trouble keeping up with 25 wpc tube amps. You'll also find some 60 watt amps that kill 100 wpc receivers. The difference is power supplies... | |
| Need HELP with my CD player How can you take an original source and make it better than the original source? Your CD player is the weak link. | |
| Dolby vs. pre-Dolby It was compression, then expansion to reduce noise. There was a device that controlled both ends of the process. No frequencies were eliminated and the process was used to expand dynamic range. Lessor one sided Dolby systems were not as good but m... | |
| Re-terminate speaker cables "...Probably a silly question but I don’t want to short something out if I decide to do this myself..."Check your work with an ohm meter. | |
| Variac or not? That amp is 45 years old. I wouldn't power it up until it was sent in for a full service and verified that it's performing correctly. The problem with old gear is that some of the parts may not be available anymore, like transistors. pop those or ... | |
| KLIPSCHORN AK6 advice/opinions? The guys on the Klipsch forum are saying 30K. There are many versions of the Jubilee now, the early pro series were affordable and some may trickle down if people upgrade to the new ones. | |
| New-ish to Audiogon Forums... Is it always like this? "...The thread ends up being a running list of members' favorite gear..."It's hard to recommend gear that's not our favorite or we haven't heard. | |
| Focal Aria 926 with Rotel integrated? It probably won't be as sweet as it was with the PrimaLuna but it's worth a try. | |
| Ideas For A Beefy Solid State Amp For Subwoofer Duties "...that is a myth, there is no stereo..."99% true but I guess you didn't own any stereo Beatles albums, lots of single channel bass. "...I suppose SMPS help in this regard..."There are times when you can't pull enough power out of the wall, that... | |
| Amp for 1.6qr Krell and Emotiva are my last choices for any Magnepan. The Maggies can use a little extra flavor and bounce and those two amps are dry and flat IMHO. | |
| Klipsch Heresy iv...Your experience. :... are simply great high end honest speakers..."I found my H3s very neutral and better than expected but I don't think they ever appeared on anyone's high end list of speakers. BTW I have factory custom rosewood cabinets, serial number 1 and 2,... | |
| Ideas For A Beefy Solid State Amp For Subwoofer Duties Did you ever wonder why pro amps are thin little rack mount devices and home audio amps are big heavy monsters with half the power? The main reason is that home audio amps have huge transformers, big or many capacitors, and the power supply to eff... | |
| Universal disc players as CD players. I might catch some slack here but here goes. Any decent disc player will sound pretty good. The high end players are better but the disc player usually isn't the weak link in a system. If your system tune and cabling is adjusted to get the best ou... | |
| Low gain preamp options A pre-amp is very important for many reasons. As example for driving multiple amps such as bi-amping or mono blocks. Most of the problems come from high power amps with very efficient loudspeakers but you can always pad down the pre-amp's output b... |