jtgofish
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| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? Well there is no perfect speaker.I would much prefer not to have to limit myself to just one pair of speakers and instead have say four or five pairs so that when you feel like a change of flavour you just set up a different system.Of course that ... | |
| Damping Factor - Interesting article "With low-damping-factor tube amps, I hear more of a sense of ease and liveliness and immersion. I’m hearing more stuff going on, it’s like the voices and instruments have more texture. Music is more engaging at lower sound pressure levels, which ... | |
| Damping Factor - Interesting article Most modern speakers are simply wrong because they have uneven impedance curves and their impedance is too low in the bass region which then means you need amplifiers with low output impedance/high damping factors/negative feedback/high current su... | |
| Amp and Preamp recommendations for Yamaha NS5000 Yes the impedance curve ,phase angles and reasonably high efficiency indicate the NS5000s should be quite easy to drive .They are nominal 6 ohm and do not dip below 3.7 ohm.Most 50 watt amps will be comfortable driving that sort of load.Not dippin... | |
| Amp and Preamp recommendations for Yamaha NS5000 There is nothing in the measurements to suggest that the NS5000s need a lot of power.In fact they indicate the opposite.I do suspect however they might be better with low /no negative feedback lowish damping factor amps.A medium powered push pull ... | |
| Tube Preamp with Solid State Amp? People with high sensitivity speakers might be shocked by how good they can sound with a really good tube preamp like a Supratek driving a really cheap gainclone type chip amp. | |
| Are Pass Labs amps probably the best ever you can buy ? Better value and better sounding than the Nakamichi PA7 [Pass designed] amp is the Usher R1.5 which is also a Nelson Pass design[a Threshold Stasis 200 copy].The SIT 3 might be the best sounding of all the Nelson Pass designs but you would want to... | |
| old high end preamps.. The Metaxas preamps sound excellent.I owned a Marquis 2 for several years.Most older preamps are not very good.There are plenty of very good old power amps but modern preamps tend to sound a lot more transparent and 3D. | |
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? If DHT preamps are not the best at creating 3D soundstage why would manufacturers use them? Perhaps they are just stupid? DHTs are a lot more difficult to use than dedicated preamp valves.It also seems odd that for those that have worked out how t... | |
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? DHT preamps produce the most 3D /holographic soundstage.Probably because those same tubes do the same thing when used in power amps.Which is why so many people love SET amplifiers.Except you are better off getting those qualities in your preamp an... | |
| What preamp creates the largest soundstage? The biggest 3D soundstage comes from directly heated triode [DHT] preamps.Especially if you can use meshplate tubes .Coincident,Ming Da,Manley and Supratek make DHT preamps.I use a Supratek 300B preamp and it has a very big room filling soundstage... | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? A lot of the time when a system sounds bad it is due to an amplifier/speaker mismatch.Unfortunately many modern speakers are very badly designed from ease of drive perspective which means they are likely to sound bad with a lot of amplifiers.I was... | |
| What country builds the best audio equipment? The U.S. and A.Becoz Bose is made there. | |
| Are Nakamichi amps any good? The Usher R 1.5 is excellent.That is a Nelsen Pass Stasis design. | |
| Revel F208 Review by Earl They have recessed imaging/soundstage.Some people might like that more distant presentation I suppose and they might even suit some "live" sounding rooms better than most but potential buyers need to be aware of this character. |