stanwal
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| Experience w/ 40-75 watt amps on Dunlavy IVs A friend has a the same or similar system with subs; however, he has settled on Parasound JC-1s, which are 400 watts a channel. He is a professional musician[ violin] who wants realistic sound so a lot of power can't hurt. I use a CJ 350 myself on... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Recognizing that the term "warmer" appears to be impossible to define with any degree of consensus I would add that I find soft dome tweeters "warmer" [whatever that means] than metal domes. I base this on the Scanspeak ones in my Spendor SP 1/2Es... | |
| Phono stage advice ProJect Tube Box 11 SE at $750. | |
| Amps that are "forward" If you want to hear more detail I would add room treatment; "bright" sounding amps appear to give more detail but just alter the balance of what you were already hearing. Getting rid of cancellation due to reflected sound will give you more real d... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Play "Light My Fire" over and over again. | |
| What causes speaker cone to extend when... There might have been enough stored in the caps in the first case if they moved when unplugged. There is sometimes some very low material that is not musical; I have notices this on a CD as well. Some kind of artifact from the recording process is... | |
| Is it hard on my amp to be driving 4 ohm speakers? No, that is not necessarily true; it is quite likely that the amp will put out as much or more power at 16 ohms. SS amps TRY to double their output every time the impedance is halved so the Sugden will struggle more with the 4 ohm load than higher... | |
| Most effective Room Treatment for slap echo, etc I use Ready Acoustics. Some come with a frame that you can just lean against the wall. I use 2 like this at the first reflection points of my speakers as well as wall mounted ones. I think they also have stand mounted ones. | |
| Oh how I wish Class D amps ... Class D is the amp of the future; always has been and always will be. LOL If they ever do get them fixed send me a message via medium as I will have been long gone. | |
| Conrad-johnson TC5 or Cary SLP 05 ? My CJ amp inverts phase, just switch the speaker wires on one end, ie black to red and everything is fine. | |
| Is centerclamp like TT Weights as good as TT maker Get something like the SOTA or Basis that does not need a threaded spindle. The Pierre Lurne is suppose to be excellent but they haven't answered my inquires. I wouldn't pay that much if you like the table as it is, just get a good clamp. Or a goo... | |
| Cardas vs Synergistic I use GRs and have heard them on a friends system and later heard some SR he bought on it. Very different, the SR much farther forward and brighter in balance with less bass. It was impressive but tiring after a while. He has replaced it with a hi... | |
| Short piece of spk wire sustitute for spk link? I am using Cardas jumpers [both the bigger and smaller ones] and lengths of bare wire. Plain Romex is better than some of the stock jumpers in my system and dirt cheap; I have been using some 14 Ga. 99.999 silver wire from VH Audio, running both s... | |
| Best Karmina Burana performance I have both those as well as several others [ Ormandy and PSO, etc] My favorite is the original version on Harmonia Mundi. | |
| What Outlets? I used FIM 880s which are very good, recently switched to Oyaide R-1s which are even better at a 50% higher cost. |