willemj
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| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Geoff, as so often you are peddling nonsense. You are not only wasting people's money, but also their time. | |
| The latest and greatest It is not really an update on the venerable LS3/5a (that was indeed also built by Kef, among many others). That honour goes to the Spendor Classic 3/5, and even more so to the Harbeth P3ESR. The LS50 is a rather different animal, if only because o... | |
| Wilson Watch Dog or JL And of course you could just get another REL B1. Twin subs are almost as good as four. Of course, this too with room eq. | |
| Wilson Watch Dog or JL I would suggest that the configuration is more important than the brand of the actual sub. To reduce the major problem of room modes, I would advise multiple subs. See here for an introduction to the argument: http://www.acousticfrontiers.com/2010... | |
| Open Baffle. Why are they mostly limited to DIY? Well, they are different, they are large, and they need a lot of power. Other often praised examples would be the designs by Siegfried Linkwitz: http://www.linkwitzlab.com/index.html | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Too late to edit my post, but see here: http://audiograph.se/ | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? An interesting way to look at the issue is to measure a so called power cube. The late Peter Aczel had the instrument to do that, and here is an example: http://www.biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic_web2.htm#pa | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Geoff did not read my earlier posts carefully enough, for my other speakers are no longer the LS3/5a (lent those to my son while he is saving for a pair of Harbeth M30.1’s) but the much better Harbeth P3ESRs.As it so happens I once attended one of... | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Most tube amps are the equivalent of a graphic equalizer - hence a no no for me. | |
| Harbeth 30.1 or legacy calibre If you want to keep the clarity and musicality but also want more volume and punch, why not add two (or even four) subwoofers? Alternatively, get the Super HL5+, or look into your amplifier: is it powerful enough? Alan Shaw himself believes in big... | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Nearly all nice analogue meters grossly underestimate peak power, however. The meters on the amplifier that Alan Shaw used in the Netherlands were digital peak level meters. But of course, a lot depends on the combination of speaker efficiency, r... | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Well, it is a free world, fortunately. However, for me it is not the job of my gear to change the sound of the music - I am not the artist. What I want is simply what Quad once called ’the closest approximation to the original sound’. I accept tha... | |
| Newbie here again with a follow up Speaker question I can think of two interesting alternatives to the Quad electrostats:1 cheaper Martin Logan electrostats.2 Harbeth. I have the P3ESR in my study, and these are the only dynamic speakers I heard that come close to the Quads in uncoloured clarity an... | |
| You pick I have owned Quad ELS75’s since the mid seventies, but replaced them a few years ago with the modern 2805. I had two reasons. The first was that their life expectancy is finite, and they had already survived longer than could be expected. The seco... | |
| Harbeth 30.1 or legacy calibre Legacy is not imported here, so I cannot comment on their products. However, I htink two things need to be added about Harbeth speakers. They have a very flat frequency response and are not just midrange speakers, even if their midrange is to die ... |