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| Tube power vs Solid state power, how much is enoug A watt ain't a watt ain't a watt. This is true even though it is supposed to be and there are set electrical parameters as to what constitutes a "watt". Tubes and SS devices work on different principles. To put it in plain English, almost all SS d... | |
| Why all these JC-1's for sale? I think that many people confuse "leaving the amps turned on but with little to no signal passing through them" with actual "break-in" time. While the idle current consumed and heat generated will help somewhat, there's nothing like throttling the... | |
| VenHaus Pulsar™ interconnects I'd be curious to see what Driver thinks of these cables now that he's probably had them a while. Personally, i think that they are a great buy. You can read some of my further comments here as posted over at AA's Cable Asylum. As i've mentioned b... | |
| Pro amps I've not used / worked with Crown amps in a long time, but their older models sounded hard, bright and sterile. They were built quite well though and you could pound on them night and day, hence their popularity with the Pro Sound crowd. My guess ... | |
| Speakers for loud listening. really loud... FP: When i took those readings, i was running a pair of highly modified 4 ohm AR 9's. These are four way, five driver 150 lb tower with dual 12" woofers, an 8" mid-woofer, a 1.5" upper midrange and a .75" tweeter per cabinet. Since all of the driv... | |
| Starting a website...need AR Turtable info Dave: I finally found the literature for the AR Turntable that i mentioned that i had. I normally keep all of this stuff in file cabinets, but it wasn't there. After looking all over for it, guess where it was? Believe it or not, it was inside the... | |
| OK Come Clean, whats in your closet ? Hi, i'm Sean and i have an audio / electronics related disease : ) My "closet" would have to be about the size of a three car garage to hold all of my "spare" electronics and speakers. The last time that i looked for something that i knew i had bu... | |
| Speakers for loud listening. really loud... Fatparrot: How loud is it when you're driving an amp rated at a couple hundred watts per channel into clipping with 104 dB speakers in your living room? How loud is it when you're driving a 1200+ wpc amp into thermal shutdown in your living room?I... | |
| Why all these JC-1's for sale? Audioengr: You didn't address any of the points that i brought up. On top of that, if you're not pulling anything above the steady state draw that the amp produces at idle, you're listening to elevator music and / or have very high efficiency and ... | |
| where to find info on DIY solid state electronics? This would be the place to start for free. This would be your second best bet, but nothing there is free : ) Sean> | |
| Speakers for loud listening. really loud... If you want to play loud with authorityand keep it clean with speakers of that efficiency level, you would need 1000+ wpc and speakers that could sustain that type of heat dissipation. You obviously need speakers with a much higher sensitivity if ... | |
| Test Equipment Rives: I wasn't thinking along the lines of computer based test equipment, but you bring up a very valid and over-looked aspect of modern day technology. For what many folks are looking for, it's quite probable that computer driven test equipment ... | |
| Why all these JC-1's for sale? Audioengr:If you can run these amps off of a single 20 amp line and aren't encountering any problems with them, you're obviously not driving them very hard. That could be due to having very efficient speakers, high impedance spekars, a small liste... | |
| Why my system has detail but no body & warm vocal? Audioengr: My old Perreaux's use zero global feedback ( according to the manual ) and are anything but "thin" sounding. The bass on these things "pound with authority", hence my use of them for subwoofer amps. If you do a search in the archives pe... | |
| Test Equipment If you know what to look for, Ebay can produce some phenomenal bargains. I typically do pretty good there on this type of stuff as i just snagged another piece of test gear last week. What was originally a $40,000 piece of test equipment is now mi... |