jaytor
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| Open Baffle Speakers: Question About Materials Yes, it is just as important for open baffle speakers as box speakers to have a stiff baffle. Spatial uses a thick wood material (I think it is a composite of some kind). PAP uses metal bracing to reinforce their baffle panels. My open baffle spe... | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson - that’s a cool idea Lynn. There are certainly plenty of audiophiles out there with KT88 amps that are running them in triode mode that could benefit from these, not to mention folks with KT88 amps that don’t currently have a way to ru... | |
| Best place to live for good quality power @carlsbad2 - I live less than 1/2 mi from our electrical substation which may help explain the more consistent voltage and lower THD. I don't think there are any manufacturing operations (which tend to operate large motors) very close to me. I don... | |
| Best place to live for good quality power According to my PS-Audio Power Plant, my incoming AC at my audio system (Portland, OR) is typically119.5-119.7 VAC with 2.2% to 2.3% THD. | |
| Totem Mani-2 vs Devialet Phantoms Gold I've owned the Mani-2s for about 15 years. I now use them in my workshop but they were in my main system for a while. The bass from such small enclosures is quite impressive But to achieve this low frequency performance, they are not very sensitiv... | |
| Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update @deep_333 - Yes, Alvin provides a link to the original firmware as well as the new updated firmware, so you can switch back if you aren't happy. | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson @donsachs @atmasphere - Thanks for your responses. My system is bi-amped with a SS amp driving the lower three octaves, so I'm primarily concerned about upper bass on up. I'm pretty happy with my current DIY 300B PSET monoblocks, but I... | |
| 300b lovers @lynn_olson - First, let me state that I've really enjoyed your, Don's and Ralph's discussion of amplifier design and tradeoffs. I've been intrigued by Alan Wright's designs (I'm currently building a line stage preamp inspired by the RTP3D). You'... | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? I liked my Pass XA60.8s (now gone) but they weren't quite as good as my PSET 300B monoblocks. | |
| Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update @liquidsound - I've been using the NOS mode over the last couple weeks. Before the update, I thought NOS was too dull sounding, but I'm liking the way it sounds now. However, I haven't done any critical listening since shortly after doing the upg... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? I think the quality of Delta-sigma DAC chips had gotten very good and will continue to subtly improve, but there is more to a really good DAC than these chips. Quality clocks, output stages, power supplies, enclosures, and even connectors, are qui... | |
| Couple of simple forum website suggestions @middlemass - this should not be necessary, and some of the websites I use for my work break when an ad blocker is used. Besides, I want this forum to continue and using an ad-blocker takes the revenue away from them necessary to maintain the site... | |
| 300b lovers @atmasphere - makes sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation. | |
| 300b lovers @atmasphere - If the input of the next component is balanced and not referenced to ground (e.g. transformer coupled), I don't understand why it is necessary to decouple the output in the source component from any ground reference to achieve the fu... | |
| Couple of simple forum website suggestions @lowrider57 - I understand the need for ads to support forums like this. Incentivizing users to install an ad blocker to get around less-than-optimal website design is truly a bad business decision on the part of Audiogon, particularly for somethi... |