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| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil By "tame" the tweeter, do you mean to sweeten or smooth the highs? If so I suspect the PathAudio would be the better choice, although I haven't actually tried it in a series role like that. A CAST would probably sound rather bright and not as clea... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil One other thing. As you probably know, the PathAudio resistor has 3 leads. The extra wire is for a grounding shield. So far I haven't had much luck with the ground connection. My comments are based on using it without the ground shield. After I am... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Grannyring, I have compared PathAudio and CAST resistors in my high-pass crossover. They both sound good but quite different. I only have one value of PathAudio which means I have only tried it in one spot but it's a critical place---the shunt sid... | |
| Amplifier specs, does they matter? A spec showing that power doubles as the impedance drops from 8 to 4 and then from 4 to 2 may be misleading. I recall a Stereophile test report a few years back of some high-powered solid-state amp, perhaps a Classe, whose ratings indicated just s... | |
| Looking for Altec 604E Horn Check with Great Plains Audio. They are the go-to folks for repairs and parts for vintage Altecs. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Grannyring, I completely agree with you about the importance of the shunt components. In my case, I have 2 shunt parts in the crossover itself---a shunt coil on the high frequency driver and a shunt cap on the woofer. Each of these is critical son... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil New Duelund CAST caps installed in my speakers today. These are for the woofer shunt caps in a 2d order crossover. Even stone cold, they trounce the Mundorf Supreme caps that were previously my favorite for that spot. The excellent midrange detail... | |
| Top resistors Interesting Audioman, maybe I need to run in my PathAudio resistors some more. I was not so pleased with their sound compared to Duelund CAST resistors, but I doubt that I had anything close to 100 hours before I removed them. My main complaints a... | |
| Suggestions? Tubed linestage pre-amp?? A used Emotive Audio Sira would be an excellent choice and is in your budget. | |
| Your favourite recording label? PabloStashConcord | |
| Spendor SP 100/R2 and Harbeth 40.1 - impressions? Good to hear that you like the big Spendors so much Classact. Two questions for you---What type of stand are you using? and what type of jumper wire are you using (assuming you aren't biwiring)?I have both Sound Anchors and Skylan stands and they ... | |
| Fred Volz and Emotive Sira Pre Amp Sorry, I don't know how to load pictures to an AudioGon thread. I was hoping you would try to set up a System page again. If you run into troubles with that, perhaps you could just email me a photo through the AudioGon email system. | |
| Fred Volz and Emotive Sira Pre Amp Your Emotive Sira should please you for many years! And it's bound to sound even better as it breaks in. Can you try again to post some pictures? I am curious how the Sira looks with the aluminum top plate. With its forest of tubes, the Sira is on... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil VPN, I am not Tom but I have some suggestions. First, while placement is important, I don't think there are any one-size-fits-all generalizations to be made. In my case, with a Duelund CAST crossover cap, I started out with 3 brass cones under its... | |
| Fred Volz and Emotive Sira Pre Amp Looking forward to your reports. |