toddalin
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| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? One-off Super Big Reds, tri-amped with a one-off electronic crossover, and one-off passive eq units between the Marantz and horns. Uses two Marantz 170DCs for the four woofers and a Marantz 1180DC for the preamp and horn amp. Cabinets are soli... | |
| Do you build anything for your high fidelity system? If so, what do you make? Stands, Speakers (both modified and from scratch including crossover design, https://youtu.be/aTBtgi7QV_U House wiring (dedicated 8-gauge on 20 amp breaker with no splices), Canare cable through walls, A/B/X switcher of my own design. U... | |
| Let me explain something to you jive turkeys. | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Atmasphere, If the 15 dB of negative feedback was meant for discussion of the Melton MKT-88 tube amp used in the videos, I have no idea where you came up with this figure. Melton advertises 0 dB of negative feedback, and doesn’t appear to have a... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... holmz, What plastic? There is a cloth cover over the glass table top, but there are no plastic coverings on any of the furniture. BTW, my videos were all made using a Nikon D750 SLR. | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Then you need to "up your game" and listen on better equipment or headphones. The difference is very noticable on even a decent system. After all, this is an audio forum. No one would expect to go to a gaming site and expect to be competative ... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... djones51, do you not hear the differences in the videos, especially from the Heil? I matched the levels to within 0.1 dB. Do you really think that changing the output voltage on one amp or the other by maybe a couple thousanths of a volt is really... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Like I said, you are only listening for a difference, no matter how small or which you care for. If you can hear a difference, then YouTube is capable of displaying/resolving this difference. And no one is saying that either is exactly as how it ... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... The contenders are a Yamaha RX-Z9 in Pure Direct Mode and a Melton MKT-88 with push/pull KT-88s, Sylvania input and driver tubes, and tube rectifiers. This is an SACD played on an Oppo95. The stereo direct RCA plugs (Canare 18 gauge) feed the ... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... "How can you expect any sonic differences be heard for the viewers through a recorded YouTube session ( w/ what mics & recording equipment?)which is then digitized & then re / converted back to analog & played through computer speakers... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Tell you what. How many people in this audience do you really think even have those three amps for comparison? Make a YouTube video of the three playing the same piece with all else being the same. Make sure that each amp first has at least 30... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Well tube amps (at least this one) certainly seem to sound different than high current soild state through Heil AMTs and I’ve done videos that easily prove this. Everything was held the same. The Vanessa tracks are within 0.1 dB and the SRV are wi... | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer I have always considered "Macs" to be the "Harley-Davidson" of audio, and anyone who knows "bikes" knows just what I mean. 😉 | |
| JBL L112 I have a pair of L112s that I got in ~'89 from the original owner, refoamed correctly once by OCS. They sit in the family room and never get played. | |
| Which Tweeter preferred- dome natural material, Beryllium/Metal or Planar Ribbon? Why? I modified my AMTs to take the peak out of the high end (~10kHz) using a diffraction lens I designed/developed, and to boost the lower end by extending the flair. I also remove the back wave because I don’t want the reflections, which can be u... |