drbarney1
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| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? I tried subwoofers with Magnepan 0.7's with no luck. I wired them up with a pair of DW-M bass panels which filled in the lower frequencies with much better integration. I connected the 0.7's to the 4 Ohm outputs on may Hammond 1642 SE Transformers... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? Before you consider the more expensive moving coil cartridge consider the following: When the stylus on a moving magnet cartridge wears out it is easy and inexpensive to change the stylus. But when a moving coil stylus wears out it costs almost a... | |
| How much $$ do bells and whistles add to preamp? I made my own with a tube rectified polypropylene filter capacitor pi filter choke power supply for both channels (crosstalk due to low series equivalence resistance of the final 100 microfarad filter capacitor a small fraction of an Ohm) so I don... | |
| Large room with low budget for speakers Don't overlook what Magnepan can offer. They circumvent the complications of cabinets and dynamic drivers and save expense and you might like the planar sound. | |
| Speaker Questions Have you considered entry level Magnepan speakers? | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? The 1912 DeForest single ended triode is an example of a classic that has been resurrected. One manufacturer described the change to class B as making compromises to improve efficiency and other tricks to enhance measurement of distortion already ... | |
| Least Expensive Power Conditioner/Surge Protector That Won't Worsen Sound For surge and lightning protection they are a good idea, but higher frequency noise is better removed by anti-ripple filters in the power supplies where capacitors and inductors become proportionally more effective with higher order Fourier harmon... | |
| The Law of Accelerating Returns I can accept it costs more to produce better performing components. But there is some voodoo physics in "high end" products. One example is speaker cables costing tens of thousands of dollars. The issue of skin depth attenuating high audio frequen... | |
| Power Cables and Wall Sockets 10 gauge is a good idea for an amplifier that intermittently draws much current to power loud passages, but for class A such as SET, it is not necessary. Before you spend on "clean power" AC regenerators or filters do you hear all the claimed "dir... | |
| Better R2R DAC Recommendation? I will probably stay with my vintage MSB Platinum which has upgrades. One used should be a good choice. | |
| Tweaks, money pit or real value? Speaker cable marketers claim energy from the signal gets into the dipole molecules of the insulator and returns back into the cable to distort the signal. Try this test. Tie the left channel cable close to the right channel cable. Connect only on... | |
| Class-A Amplification and 15 Amp Outlet At lease a SET tube amp draws constant current which is modulated through the output transformer. The current draw does not change - increase - when louder passages in the music play. Therefore, you need not have the high current carrying capacity... | |
| Power Conditioning on the Cheap While I value power conditioners for surge protection and lightning protection including such lightning protection for FM and TV antennas (to which I add lightning arresters where the cable enters the house) I am skeptical of their ability to do a... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” Caution, if you invest in extremely expensive components such as cables costing over $20,000, you invest your ego in believing you are too clever to have been taken even though you will only imaging it sounding better because you can't admit any d... | |
| Are there any audiophile Air BnB's? Let any tenant supply his/her own system and make it clear to the tenant and neighbors that any complaint, which need not require a neighbor to confront the tenant and put up with false promises to turn it down only to be followed by experimenting... |