zmanastronomy
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| For 75-85 dB a few watts are enough so ... You also have to keep in mind that a low powered amp pushing a hard load can clip because of the lack of head room. You may not even know your destroying the speaker beacause of soft clipping. | |
| For 75-85 dB a few watts are enough so ... I agree with Meiwan and Ddd1. Speakers that are not efficient take an amp with a lot of current. A 84db speaker will require 2-4 watts (depending on room size) to play at 84db from the listoning position.Most amps with 10-20 watts do not have the ... | |
| Is the Phile sound an Aquired taste. I agree that most SET's lack the sparkling highs and deep full bass. And it seems that those extentions are something very important to you. I have an SET that does it all. The rich, beautiful midrange and the powerful bass and sparkling highs.The... | |
| New DAC or Speakers? What will put airy-ness in? Room treatments will do wonders for the sound stage and imaging. | |
| New DAC or Speakers? What will put airy-ness in? From looking at your system I would say your reciever is the weak link as Arni mentioned.An integraded amp would put some depth to your sound stage for sure.The speakers you are using should be a very good speaker for what you're looking for.As fa... | |
| What CDP gets really close to vinyl? My freind was at his brother in-laws place that is really into vinyl. He took his CD player with him, it was a very highly reviewed Sony player and he told me by comparison he had to play some SACD's to approach the TT's ability to have that expan... | |
| Zu Omen or Tekton Lore I don't know about the Omen Def's, but I don't think the Omen has any dampening material inside the cabnet.That's one of the reasons I looked at the Lore.And the fact that Eric addresses the phase timing at such a low price point.I also like the f... | |
| Zu Omen or Tekton Lore I've read from a SuperFly owner that the SF doesn't image as pin point as he would like.That being said, you may have to go higher in the Zu line to match the excellence of the Lore.And at an insane price point ($850).I've heard some crazy expensi... | |
| Uneven balance I agree with Opus88.Check your bias settings. If there off due to re-tubing, it will cause the ballance to be off. | |
| Bi wire with one set of speaker terminals? Bi-wiring comes in handy when you have two different cables to use for tunning the tweeter separate from the mids and lows.Other that that, a single cable with matching jumper will work just fine. | |
| Zu Omen or Tekton Lore I'm not sure there broke in yet. I have an impression that traveling from Utah to Florida in a cardboard box surrounded by styrofoam builds a static charge that dissapates quickly.I am using a stereophile burn in disc that will speed up the break ... | |
| Zu Omen or Tekton Lore Ok, heres a short summary of my first impessions of the Lore's.I will give a better review after break in.Right out of the box they were very dark and compressed sounding. So I put some heavy hitting music (Tool) on and called a freind of mine to ... | |
| conundrum Did you hear both speakers on the same equipment?I've heard some very expensive equipment sound really bad.And I knew that the equipment was capable of sounding incredable.Sometimes it just the synergy thang. | |
| Mirage M1 8" woofer substitute Albert.Excellent advice as usual.Why can't I think like that ? | |
| The best CD Player for the money Yes Jed, I should have stated "in my system".I have a freind that was so impressed with the ERC-1 after hearing it compared to my other Oppo's that he bought one for himself.He was very dissapointed with it in his system.He and I are always compai... |