zorpman
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| What's the review of Gon'ers on Norh speakers?... Very Good. I have a pair of 6.1 wood and 6.9sm synthetic marble. Both are unbeatable both for their value and their sound. Rich tight bass, marvelous mid-range, and non-glare highs. Much less glare than B&W or other metal tweater boxes. Great ... | |
| Whole house surge protection/voltage regulation Get a Sola CV series commercial voltage controller. Controls voltage to a couple of percent and also works as a surge protector. I have a 5kv Sola protecting my system. Any VA that you can pay for. This is what commercial labs use. Sometimes avail... | |
| Device for voltage at 120 Look on Ebay for a Tripplite line stablizer/conditioner(LC). These come in 600-1200, 1800, and 2400 watt sizes and are dirt cheap by audiophile standards; These things use a heavy autotransformer to keep voltage within a couple percent of 120. Sou... | |
| Your ''best kept secret'' speaker choice ? Norh horn speakers. I have both 6.5 (wood) and 6.9sm (synthetic marble). Both sets are smooth and clean with tight bass and non-bright highs. 6.5s are about $500.00 usd with shipping; 6.9sms about $700.00 usd with shipping.You either love the look... | |
| Ohm Walsh speakers; Anyone have any experience Sean,The Dynaco 416 (vs. the 400 or 410)has proved stable (for me) for the Fs.Your point re refoaming is well make. Since the bass is not deficient for my music system I have not really thought about refoaming which would be a real_&*$#$.I wil... | |
| Review: Antique Sound Labs Hurricane Tube amp I have a pair of ASL1008DT 100wpc monoblocks in my main tube system. After replacing the signal tubes with 6sn7 Tung-Sols and the power tubes with a couple of matched quads of 6550EHs these guys give me all I could ask. Fast, tight, tube midrange ... | |
| Ohm Walsh speakers; Anyone have any experience Sean,I have had my F's for about 5 years. Bought used in great condition with new surrounds. I have found (as have most people I've talked to) that they are mommoth power hogs. I was powering them with a single Dynaco 416 (300 wpc into 6 ohms)(w/C... | |
| Ohm Walsh speakers; Anyone have any experience I have a set of Ohm F's in my main SS system driven by phase inverted Dynaco 416s operating as monoblocks (@1000wpc at 6 ohms) they are the clearest and fastest speakers I have ever had with the least amount of hash. No great in the bass dept. but... | |
| What tube tester to buy? These testers (especially the Eico)will be in your price range (see Ebay)and will provide useful info on essentially all (yes I know that there are weird exceptions)modern or semi-modern tubes. | |
| Hubbell HG, Surge Protected & IG, Anyone use this? Good Luck!Have you thought about using twist lock plugs/outlets throughout the set up? Dead reliable, orders of magnitude more contact area than NEMA straight plugs. Cheap by the dozen on Ebay. | |
| Hubbell HG, Surge Protected & IG, Anyone use this? Three errors in my second post1) 3000va not kv2) 150-200 should be 150-200%3) solid state should be steady stateSorry | |
| Hubbell HG, Surge Protected & IG, Anyone use this? My point is that more/bigger is not necesarily better. The system you describe does not merit 4ga wire or an 80A breaker. You have turned the breaker from a circuit protection device into a HD switch. It also appears that you have more MOVs than t... | |
| Hubbell HG, Surge Protected & IG, Anyone use this? Although you have protected yourself from damn near everything but a close strike nuclear EMF pulse it would seem that your much is to much. Exactly what real world damage are you trying to prevent? A direct lightning strike to your home (not thro... | |
| Jolida reliability? Anyone with comments? I've had a 801 integrated amp for several years with absolutely no problems. | |
| Power Consumption idle Buy a "Kill a Watt" P3 volt/amp/watt digital meter on Ebay, Cheap and lots of fun. About the only inexpensive way to actually check current draw from your audio/videa gear a idle, full power, and anything in between. What is the vampire current dr... |