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| Speaker Impedance A lot will depend on your room and your listening habits, but in an average room 60 watts will be a good minimum power. Any tube amplifier or solid state should be able to handle that load. | |
| Can digitizing vinyl match CD? If you are ripping vinyl, and you have the Alesis Masterdisk, set it to record at 24/88.2 This way there will be no algorithm needed to convert to Red Book, but there will be the same advantage of 24/96 in that there will be no brickwall filter us... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Newbee, the idea that a certain age of music recordings is designed to sound right on a certain vintage of speaker and amplification is a red herring. Often recording engineers, just like today, are recording on location and using headphones. Mic ... | |
| How does smoke effect speakers? I used to service a lot of loudspeakers in the old days. You could always tell if the speaker was owned by a smoker- of course they would smell, but the suspensions of the drivers would usually be rotted long before their time. The same is true of... | |
| Titan, Transfiguration Orpheus or Air Tight PC1?? One should be mindful in all these exchanges about cartridge loading- whether that was done in the case of each system and experience where cartridges are compared. For example, if you were to listen to the PC1 you might think that it is cold and ... | |
| Titan, Transfiguration Orpheus or Air Tight PC1?? Sunnyboy1956, I've used the Lyra, Transfiguration and the Air Tight, all in the Triplanar. All are great cartridges; I found myself preferring the Orpheus. It seems that it has a little more body... | |
| 4 ohm, 8 ohm or 16 ohm tap on amp for quad 57 Hi Lula, Some people have had good luck with the S-30. I've not tried it mayself, but I have used the M-60, which works great. With either amplifier, a speaker fuse might not be a bad idea (or be careful with the volume control), as the speaker re... | |
| Using a 15 inch woofer to do mid range One nice thing about this approach is the smaller capacitor that is used to keep the lows out of the midrange (as opposed to a lower crossover frequency). The smaller cap will be more transparent. | |
| 4 ohm, 8 ohm or 16 ohm tap on amp for quad 57 Hi MrT, the 8 ohm tap is a pretty good bet. You'll have to try it and see how the highs do. If you use the 16 ohm taps, the highs will be rolled off. There's lots of cool things that you can do the the ST-70 to improve performance- set up right it... | |
| How to make sound less detailed with warmth? In amps and preamps, the mechanism that contributes most to a situation of harsh detail is emphasis of the odd-ordered harmonics that the ear uses as loudness cues.These harmonics tend to be emphasized by transistors and the use of global negative... | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 ? Hi Raul, I've not had direct experience with the Phantom as I have a Triplanar for each of our Atma-Sphere 208s. I've seen a lot of people argue about which of arm is better and I don't doubt that there are differences in sound nor (more important... | |
| The 'tube-transistor' enigma by MC carts? Nandric, I suspect the comparison of different cartridge construction to tube vs solid state is likely a red herring. Tube phono sections do not have to have higher distortion, and some transistor phono sections OTOH can have quite high distortion... | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 ? The Phantom and the Triplanar seem to operate at a level above the SME V. The reason for that seems to be arm tube resonance- all three arms have some sort of damping system to control that, but the SME seems to be the least effective, and has a s... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Lrsky, I know what you mean about the Sound Labs- I've heard them many times as I have lots of customers and friends who have them or had them. The detail and cohesive quality that ESLs are capable of on a day to day basis is something that usuall... | |
| The 'tube-transistor' enigma by MC carts? Nandric, my understanding is that the bobbin in the Orpheus is round, like the bobbin in a voice coil of a speaker. It is not cross-shaped like the Micro Benz use. |