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| One Amp To ‘Rule’ Them All.... Brettmcee,Even if we disregard opinion on sound quality, I don't think you will find any particular amp that a majority of people have actually heard. I bet even the most common and long-lived amps have not been heard by more than 10% of the popu... | |
| One Amp To ‘Rule’ Them All.... The perfect amplifier would be the one that works best with the particular speaker to which it would be paired. For studio speakers, like those made by Genelec, the perfect amplifier, to me, would be one that puts out 0.000 watts/channel.It is cr... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? Gawdbless,Strumenti Acustici de Precisione no longer exists, but the owner/designer, Vincenzo Fratello, has a new company called DolceVita Audio. It is even harder to find references to that company. A dealer in my Northern Virginia area, Deja ... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? I've heard dozens of horn systems. Of the complete systems, I like: the Edgarhorn systems I've heard; some of the Volti systems I've heard were okay, but not that great for my taste; Klipschorn and Lascala not my favorites; Altec Voice of the The... | |
| high-efficiency loudspeakers I am a fan of many high-efficiency systems, but, most are systems built from high efficiency drivers and custom cabinets and crossovers and not complete packages. I like some vintage drivers and a few modern drivers that are either straight out r... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? d2girls,I like a lot of things about Avantgarde systems. They are, like most good horn systems, very dynamic and sound quite good at lower volume levels. They also don't have as much problems with nasal coloration or other types of tonal colorat... | |
| Groovy Picture Chakster,That is a very interesting picture. I like the idea of printing the coil (certainly easier than winding), but this structure looks a lot more massive than the ART-1000's coil, which must significantly increase the moving mass of the syst... | |
| Long-Term Amp Storage Without Use: Bad Idea??? I would just store them. When you do plan to use them, it would be best to slowly bring them back to life using a variac (this allows the capacitors to slowly "reform"). If you hear noise, particularly hum, after the amps are up and running, it ... | |
| Your favorite male soul voices Lots of good selections mentioned, I particularly like Sam Cooke, Solomon Burke and Jackie Wilson. I also like Clyde McPhatter, Smokey Robinson and Al Green. | |
| Get your First Watt SIT-3 now? A friend of mine, using First Watt schematics, built one of their SIT amps and it is a very good solid state amp. That amp, and others I've heard from First Watt, are so much better than most other solid state amps if you have the right kind of s... | |
| Groovy Picture Ketchup,Thanks for the really interesting Neumann sketch. It certainly looks like a similar design, with the magnetic pole pieces and the coils oriented differently. | |
| Groovy Picture bimasta,You raise an interesting question. I don't know if there are many modern advances in cartridge design. Fundamentally, design has not changed in a long time. Even the exotic forms, such as optical cartridges (light source, shade attached... | |
| Groovy Picture That is not an actual slow-motion video of a stylus playing a groove. That was made by stop action photography of static placement of the needle in the groove. It is an animation. | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy I watched someone doing a setup where three different digital scales were used and none of the scales agreed (the user averages the readings). None of the scales were low-cost models, one was a Win scale that is made for cartridge setup and coste... | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? I have heard many good sounding CDs so I don't think the problems with digital sound are inherent in the medium; it is mostly the case of how recordings are mastered. A lot of digital recordings are mastered to sound hard-edged and bright. There... |