zaikesman
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| "Parts upgrade" on crossovers -Any experiences? Very interesting - as I posted in a recent thread, I had to have an under-spec'ed resistor that went bad "upgraded" on one of my Thiel 2.2's by the factory, whose tech stated that this particular resistor (at 1/4 watt) had caused many previous pro... | |
| The heat of tubes... Peter, it's not necessarily the tubes that suffer most for being run in a hotter ambient environment, though it's good to keep them cooler as well - it's also many of the other electronic parts inside an amplifier, especially capacitors, which wil... | |
| The heat of tubes... Although I've never been bothered by the heat of my tube amps in the summer - the AC's usually on anyway here in DC*, where it's almost always hot and humid during July and August - I would be wary of keeping my amps in a closet; I'd much rather t... | |
| Another Issue with Hum.....Advice Needed Hey, if you can bear to turn off your receiver (an amplifier itself), you can just as well turn off your subwoofer. Don't sweat it - the potential sonic gains to be made from leaving a SS amp always-on probably aren't detectable in a sub anyway (a... | |
| Anybody heard the new Thiel 2.4? Since I didn't get to hear them at the factory as I had hoped, I guess I'll (maybe) have to go and make a rare (for me) dealer showroom appearance if I can't stand the curiousity. Tom, since you are running the 2.4's with a similar quantity of wat... | |
| Thiel - Inventors and Tinkerers All Thanks for the tip - now that I have been in a more properly-sized listening room since last summer, I can sit farther away and bring the speakers out a bit more, both of which have ameliorated the 'listening-down' sensation I used to get in the r... | |
| Running balanced. Difference between XLR vs. RCA. An experience on the question of whether balanced connection can make a difference with shorter cable runs: Between my balanced DAC and balanced preamp, I experimented by trying 1m runs of two different cable types in both balanced XLR and single-... | |
| Running balanced. Difference between XLR vs. RCA. A piece of gear might be internally balanced (or not), but any gear can only offer balanced connection on XLR-terminated, internally-balanced cables (though not all gear offering XLR connectors actually provides balanced output and/or input!). RCA... | |
| Looking for a great tube headphone amp Gilbaino, it sounds as if we basically agree on what we heard, and just have different preferences. In another thread a while back, someone posted that the current-production MG Head DT now eschews the use of an output transformer, like the X-Cans... | |
| Thiel - Inventors and Tinkerers All Hmm...we must just differ in our perceptions of Thiel bass. I've found their stuff in general to excell in LF transient definition, but perhaps at the expense of some utlimate bass weight and slam compared to competing designs in similar price ran... | |
| Understanding Tube Power Ratings Agreed Sean, I wouldn't think tubes first if I had a low-impedance, multiple-woofer, highly reactive load to drive. I'm more just curious about the audiophile psychology when it comes to this type of spec (and anyone can feel free to chime in on t... | |
| what CDs are most in need of remastering? A lot of the compression on pop recordings is built into the original mastertapes (whether digital or analog), and so is not just a CD-mastering issue. As Marakanetz (I think) alludes to, every vintage analog recording is actually 'remastered' whe... | |
| Understanding Tube Power Ratings I had more success running my 2.2's on 45 tube watts (C-J) than on 70 (Classe) or 100 (NAD) SS watts. Now I have them on 200 tube watts (VTL) and they're even better (this isn't a parable though - my SS amps weren't of comparable cost or quality t... | |
| Thiel - Inventors and Tinkerers All Unsound: Thiels, at least as I have gotten the impression, have long been thought to have excellent bass no matter any other perceived shortcomings, and I concur with this view. I don't personally believe that the line's bass response is at all co... | |
| Thiel - Inventors and Tinkerers All Kinsekd, you must have visited Thiel shortly before me. We were not lucky enough to get a listening session, but I wholeheartedly agree with you about the hospitable atmosphere and all the friendly folks who took time out of their day to explain t... |