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| Rowland 302 v. Krell 400CX Rowland 302 is rated at 300W into 8 Ohms, 500W into 4 Ohms, apparently not rated into 2 Ohm loads. What does that tell you about power supply? To me it means that if you have speakers that dip down into the 4 Ohm region at some frequencies of the ... | |
| Best Recording of Scheherazade By far my favorite is the circa 1979 DG recording by Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa. They get the timing right and dynamically make the music swing in just the right places when it needs to. Plus there is no better, longer, mor... | |
| Best Orchestral Film Scores Anything by Howard Shore; one of the best IMO | |
| Has Anyone heard the New 200 gram CSNY "Deja Vu"? Ordered and on its way, stay tuned... | |
| recommendations for Paradigm Studio 20 V2 I agree with S7horton; your best bet will be to maintain the same manufacturer's speakers all around. | |
| A really dumb tube question Though each of the tubes you list are dual triodes with identical pinouts, they all differ from one another SIGNIFICANTLY in gain structures. Therefore, the use of any of these tubes in any placement in a high end piece of equipment should maintai... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A When venturing into the $$$ territory for speakers that you are Dbk, room optimization should and ultimately will become a significant investment in both time and money. My hunch is that as best we can evaluate speaker, amp, pre amd source combina... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A 1) We can all get along; no more "fighting" about engineering from my end...2) Actual listening to systems is the best way to evaluate ultimate inter-component compatibility...but3) One CAN make sensible choices BEFORE listening to particular comp... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A Right on Ritteri. High current is certainly what's required for lower impedance designs. I was not aware that BAT can produce such current and I definitely investigate. I have only heard their components at Audio shows. Always a difficult environm... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A Big fan of F1. | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A I am still being called a Fool and a Jackass by Ritteri and Natnic. C'mon guys, lighten up will ya?And thanks Lowrider for confirming Serblin's use of Krell to power his speakers, for whatever application.Semi: Thanks for the kind response. Obviou... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A SEMI:I never once used the term "best". That is solely your assertion or invention Semi.Serblin obviously (probably?) values Krell as ONE of many tools when evaluating his own designs. Most high quality speaker designers also use several amp manuf... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A Just found this by Mgs on another thread:"For what it's worth, I believe Franco Serblin (sp), the designer of Sonus Faber speakers, uses a pair of Krell monoblocks as part of his test system at the factory."You guys make me laugh. Thanks for the g... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A "if you actually knew anything about physics of amplifiers you would know that NO AMPLIFIER can truely double down their power when impedance is cut in half.""Go back to www.Iamaspecwhorewannabe.com until you can validate a competant argument seri... | |
| Audiophiles & music-have you got it wrong? The main issue for me these days (and something that was briefly alluded to above) is that, as some of us grow older, the amount of perceived actual time diminishes. Yet music will always require real time to enjoy. Devices may be faster and machi... |