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| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 1. Current vehicle? Beat up, 120,000 mile Nissan Sentra (tops out at 30mph before bogging down);2. Prospective vehicle? Nothing;3. Were $$$ no object, what vehicle? Choice A. My legs; Choice B. Vespa scooter/moped. | |
| Crown amps I heard a Crown Macro Reference (as I vaguely recall) at an air show: the sound was incredibly loud out on the airfield, and standing about 100 yards away from the speakers; but if you're looking for detail, precision, and accuracy, you might cons... | |
| Refrigerating Circuit Board Based Attenuator I take it this means the circuits will die a miserable frozen death. I did some research and apparently the condensation bringing them out of frozen condition will likely do more harm than if they were simply left alone, outside, sitting on a shel... | |
| Innersound Speakers It's a pleasure to read and hear the different voices and perceptions on Dr. Sanders' ESL engineering. We currently use the Eros in our main system, driven by Henry Wolcott's CA-250 tube monoblocks. They do 225Watts per side and drive the Eros qui... | |
| What amp with Innersound Eros ? Henry Wolcott's CA-250 industrial monoblocks: 225Watts per side; Eight 6ca7's, two 12dw7's, two 12at7's per side. | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables Perhaps Jeff Weber's "WeberWire" speaker cable: Threshold Corp.'s reference during the Nelson Pass era.*Cable cross-section = 4 gauge;*0.00053 Ohm resistance per linear foot for transmission and return paths combined;*Can manage 100amps rms to 500... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Please allow me to also credit the following:William Firebaugh (Ford Aerospace, Inc.) and Andy Payor (Rockport Technologies) for their innovative carbon fiber tonearm with viscuous damping design -- integrated on the Well Tempered Super Classic an... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame 1. A.J. Conti and Associates -- Basis Audio, Inc.: Ovation, 2500/2800 Series, and Debut tt's;2. Henry O. Wolcott for implementing distortionless amplifier designs used in mission critical laboratory applications for Uncle Sam and converting these ... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Walk; and, when the legs can't take it, I take the wife's 35th Anniversary Mustang GT, one of only 5000 made -- Customized cpu software, Flow Master w/ H-Pipe, and K&N Cold Air Intake. I'd rather walk though or take a moped: Saved gas money = ... | |
| I have some regrets selling... Threshold Stasis 7.0 Amp: A Power House from what I recall listening. | |
| Stepped Attenuator to replace Potentiometer. Ngjockey: that's a pretty technical question, which will take me a day or so to research: for now, all I know is that the input on the amps are the two pronged banana plug type (I plug the the male RCA connector coming from the preamp. into a bana... | |
| Stepped Attenuator to replace Potentiometer. The amps are not single-ended; they are push-pull at about 225W per side, each side using eight 6CA7's. | |
| Solid State or Tube Preamp mated with Tube Monos? At this point, I prefer to err on the side of caution and not mess with success, i.e. "Be careful when you are this close." Like a gentleman advised me about putting on too many layers of spar varnish, "Two or three layers is fine; but, when you s... | |
| Stepped Attenuator to replace Potentiometer. Good evening to all. Pardon the misperception: I just zoomed in on the gain pot of each monoblock and I saw a faint "." stamp followed by a space in "OHMITE TYPE-AB 0. 25 MEG OHM." Apparently, this means I could substitute a 250kOhm resistance att... | |
| Solid State or Tube Preamp mated with Tube Monos? Thanks for the informative responses gentlemen. It's a privilege to be amongst a community of human beings in touch with not merely cutting-edge audio engineering but more significantly with cutting-edge science. |