tomcy6
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| Where is the significant point of diminishing returns on hi-end turntable? Hometheaterreview and shydog, Out of necessity, it is considered common courtesy not to get on a vinyl thread and tell everyone that vinyl sucks and digital rules and the same applies to vinyl people posting on digital threads. This is necessary b... | |
| Cary SLP-03 pre-amp: Does it need better tubes than stock to sound its best??/ In answer to your original question, many people, myself included, believe that there are significant sonic differences between tubes and that you can improve or tune the sound of your gear by trying tubes other than the stock tubes that come from... | |
| Prima Luna Prologue 3 rolled some tubes and... Amperex and Telefunken are considered top shelf tubes. There may be a better combination out there but I couldn't tell you what they would be. Some other PrimaLuna owners will probably chime in. If you're willing to spend some money, call Kevin... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. So bagwell, are you saying you haven't found a tube amp that works for you with full range electrostats or with any electrostats (including hybrids)? | |
| Selling? I’m in the this-seems-like-an-odd-situation camp. stanwal does not have his amp up for sale. Someone calls him out of the blue and makes arrangements to come to his house and pick the amp up without discussing the price. I’d be a little hesitant a... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Thanks for the advice Stewart, I got your point about the Sanders ESLs. As I said, I haven't heard them, but on principle I don't think I'd be interested in a speaker that was that directional. | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Thanks Erik, Do you have any experience with the MC275? Do you think that in mono parallel configuration it would be a good match for Martin Logans?I haven't heard the Sound Labs or Sanders ESLs, but I'm sure they are both fine speakers with the... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. ivanj, I think that Dick Olsher was repeating Sound Lab's marketing explanation of why their flat panel design is better. If you compare the in-room frequency response graphs of the Sound Lab to the ML Montis, the Montis looks pretty good:http://... | |
| Why has amplifier power become a big issue Some of the sounds speakers make, such as a sharp whack on a drum, a firm pluck of a bass string, a loud voice or voices, the plink of a piano key (transients), can require lots of watts for a very short period to reproduce the leading edge of tho... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. McIntosh has autoformers in their solid state amps and specifies that the rated power of the amp remains the same into 8, 4 or 2 ohms. In the MC275 tube amp they call the output transformer an output transformer but in the specs they list it unde... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. ivanj, I asked about McIntosh because I have read many threads where Ralph recommends Zero autoformers for hard to drive speakers and even for not hard to drive speakers. Since McIntosh makes amps with autoformers designed specifically for a parti... | |
| Rolling Stones Mono Box Set (lp or cd) One problem with the Stones early albums is that their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, insisted on producing them even though he knew nothing about producing records. I don't know if that's your problem or that they were mixed digitally. | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Thanks for the replies, guys, very helpful stuff.Ralph, I’d still like to get your opinion on McIntosh amps with autoformers. Just in general, do you think they are a good sounding amp compared with other amps in their price ranges? Do they implem... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Ralph, I think that there must be some other reason that ML designs their panels with such a low impedance at 20khz. It’s such a radical design that there must be a sound quality reason for it, don’t you think? I don't think anyone would think, I... | |
| Dipole Asymmetry OP: "Thanks for all the feedback. I think, personally, I’ll take rearward firing energy out of the equation and go with a conventional speaker design."Conventional speakers also have rearward firing energy as well as a lot more energy hitting the ... |