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| Alternative Rack to Salamander David, the Sistrum racks are the main competitor to the Grand Prix racks for performance. We've done extremely well in head-to-head competition against GP, in the few instances where people actually compared them for performance against Sistrum.I ... | |
| Speakers for low power amps? Gliderguider, I went to the website and those Fab 1 speakers look pretty cool.Good extension specs on the low end too.The Abbeys are nice, but they're not like Lowthers. The Fostex drivers just don't have the speed and detail or efficiency like th... | |
| Spikes versus wall coupling Barry, I agree with you, and I'm really pleased to see that you have some testing charts and other documentation to help people understand the need for vibration management in their audio and video systems.I always read your posts, and I also feel... | |
| Alternative Rack to Salamander For a performance-oriented rack, alot of people like the Sistrum racks. Winner of the 2004 Brutus Award for Excellence from Positive Feedback Online publication. They are consistently mentioned in any conversation about performance platform system... | |
| Spikes versus wall coupling Without being argumentative about anything, I'd simply(and predictably) recommend trying a set of Audiopoints under your speakers, and compare them to the BrightStar stuff, or whatever you like, and let the winner dictate the purchase. If you need... | |
| Speaker design myths revealed Fiddler, you can calculate the size of the needed baffle by using the quarter wave formula.It depends on how deep in the bass you want these things to produce.Pick a frequency above the F3(resonant freq) of the driver, and deep enough into the bas... | |
| Speaker/Amp Impedence Interface....... Newbee, a reduced damping factor between the amp and speaker can definitely influence the control of the bass driver(s).Exactly how the loss of control manifests itself may not be exactly predictable, because sometimes the speakers(especially ones... | |
| Fully Modded Origin Live OL1 or Stock Rega RB-600? I agree that due to various aspects of the design of the 250, it can be a better arm(when modded) than the 300, 600, 900 arms.Some of the "tweaks" often used for the 300/600/900 arms are trying to restore them to as much like the 250 as they can g... | |
| Top ten DD turntables of all time? Rod1957, in direct drive turntables of the vintage sort, the platter is actually part of the motor, and the spindle bearing is actually also the motor bearing.Since motors vibrate, and since the motor bearing is not nearly built to as close-tolera... | |
| Speaker design myths revealed While the Jordan driver is not high-sensitivity like many single-driver systems, it has many of the pros and cons of these kinds of systems.The Jordan driver was awarded best sound in at least one national "DIY speaker" competition, and has gotten... | |
| Speaker/Amp Impedence Interface....... In addition to Sean's good response above, if the impedance of the speakers dip at the same frequencies as the output impedance of the amp rises, then you are losing damping factor(speaker impedance divided by amp output impedance) which can resul... | |
| Top ten DD turntables of all time? Don't agree with you on the vintage DD tables.Anyway,1) Rockport Sirius2) Goldmund Reference3) Micro Seiki DDX-15004) Micro Seiki DDX-10005) Denon DP-60L6) Technics SP-107) Technics SL-12008) Revox 780?(DD w/linear arm)9) Denon DP-55F10)any more m... | |
| Active speaker, the future? or another fad? The Dali Megaline is an active system, but doesn't include the amps. It comes with the speakers, and an active crossover. You provide the amps. Albert Porter uses this system currently.I think that active speaker driving is a very good idea. I thi... | |
| Speakers for low power amps? El, yes that has been done by people on occasion.The big issue becomes integration of the drivers, because the Lowthers are so fast that most subs or LF drivers don't keep up, and sound sluggish. Sort of the same problem that occurs when trying to... | |
| Help needed for outdoor stereo with no electricity In a word,maybe. But likely not.The 12vdc battery has, according to your specs, 33ah capacity. When you convert this to 120vac via the inverter, this gives 3.3 amp/hour capacity at the needed line voltage for the receiver.If the receiver is a 30wp... |