wwoodrum
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| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' George,How do I split the output from the pre-amp/DAC? Does someone make a decent splitter cable with XLR terminations? Or am I missing something? | |
| Benchmark Preamps and Amp - For real? DAC3HGC/AHB2 (no pre) with Joseph Audio Pulsars - definite synergy there with great definition and deep, wide image. Having not heard the pre-amp, it is not a priority for me right now. I think the extra money spent on excellent cables is probably... | |
| Pulsars and the Mythical Armchair Speaker Maker @soix - Probably $450 speakers that cost $32.67 to make. Wouldn't that be ironic? | |
| Pulsars and the Mythical Armchair Speaker Maker @kenjit - That easy these days, is it? Be that as it may, I'm done with all of that (and my wife was done with all of the parts laying around). Besides that, I'm really very satisfied with the Pulsars that I have in my current listening space. | |
| Pulsars and the Mythical Armchair Speaker Maker @kenjit - It was a long time ago. I've thrown out and/or given away my books on the topic and all of my notes, but from memory, I was building mainly LR-1, LR-2, and one or two LR-3-type designs. I experimented with Butterworth, too. Sloped cabine... | |
| Pulsars and the Mythical Armchair Speaker Maker So.... I own Pulsars. For about three years now. On the way to finding them, I was listening to speakers in the $10-20K range - that was my dream budget, and I liked Vandersteen Quattro speakers a lot, but not enough to spend that kind of money on... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' Trolls as in the mythical beings that live in caves and assail unwary travelers; the modern context is here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll[off topic] Not that I’ve never appreciated really nice work by the very best, but most of t... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' I’m not going to gush over the improvements offered by the second amp as in overall terms they are not massive. But isn't it the incremental improvements that sometimes make the biggest difference? Take speaker cables for instance - a person wh... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' @jl35 - That’s the final step, to be sure. I won’t do that until I’m reasonably sure that’s the way I am going. I don’t want to create ‘distressed merchandise’ for them if I can help it. | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' So far it sounds as if those who've actually used a pair of AHB2s in bridged-mono mode have no regrets.... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' @tobes - Regarding your former post, it is true that I don't know how much I need the extra power. I have a 14'x20' listening room to which I've been gradually applying acoustic treatments to get rid of slap echo and eliminate standing waves (with... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' @tobes - I find that I tend to stop following discussions after the trolls find them and do what they do. I'd rather politely ignore them than provide them with the attention they so obviously lack and need. I don't know all of the names yet, but ... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' I have seen the amp clip at what I thought should have been a reasonable volume, but only on a very demanding recording - Steely Dan's 'Gaslighting Abby' from "Two Against Nature." But just that once and so I'm not too concerned in that respect. I... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' @georgehifi - Well, George, your post on the other thread was what made me start to question whether I should go the bridged mono route! I've seen posts by others that stated that going bridged mono was awesome, or words to that effect. (Now, I re... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 - To 'mono' or not to 'mono' @pcc67 - The only objective comparisons (head to head) have been with a Bryston 60W integrated amp and with a Rega Osiris. The comparison with the Bryston and the superior mid-bass resolution of the AHB2 during my in-home trial of the latter was t... |