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| Power conditioners around $500 RF, can you swing a soldering iron? I have built a number over the years. I can honestly say that with the exception of PS Audio PS300 on some source gear, it will match anything out there ... and it's dead easy to do.Attached a URL of a very easy... | |
| Need for Power Conditioning?? Every electronic device you use contaminates the mains; your amps dumps noise into the mains that your DAC and pre-amp must consume. They in turn do the same. Best is to have at least one form of conditioner per audio component. Needn't be an expe... | |
| Bass Suckout in a Square Room - Remedies and Solut Meth, you suffer from standing wave, meaning you have low pressure and high pressure points at a frequency determined by your room size. Moving around till you find a sweet spot is really putting a band aid on cancer. If you listen carefully youl... | |
| Most fancy tonearms 02-07-10: Fightingwords still not surprised they lost the space race. They won the space race ... | |
| New to SET - Help in all areas Single driver, back or front loaded horn or transmission line is normally the best match for a SET amp. Driver such as lowther and fostex with high(ish) efficiency is needed, especially if young or for 300B or 2A3s. The choice of speaker will make... | |
| "Tube Like" SS Integrated Amps Sonic, this is one of the few times (or the first?) I agree with Mr. T. 'Tube sound' means different things to different people. The vast majority refer to 'tube sound' as the coloration caused by a tube amp - speaker mismatch, hence the comments ... | |
| Will a PS 300 provide enough juice? No it won't. | |
| 30 ft rca run too long for a phono to preamp? I am using a 15 foot IC between my phono and amp and I don't use a preamp at all. I have used a couple of phonos; Pass, Herron and a couple of home rolled tube units w/o a hint of a problem. | |
| Amp damping factor? Kijanki an amplifier that has a DF rating is probably something I'll pass on. When specs are written by the marketing department, one never knows just how creative theyve been.RegardsPaul | |
| Baby Steps back to Tubes. Has2be. No amount of tube "power" will ever make up for big variances in impedance curve. If you want to use tubes you must have a tube friendly speaker.On an over, over simplified level: A transistor amps output goes up as the impedance drops i.... | |
| Amp damping factor? ?? An amp doesn't have a damping factor. Damping factor is the ratio of the rated impedance of the loudspeaker to the source impedance. In other words, you can only calculate a damping factor when you have a speaker amplifier combination.What you ... | |
| Baby Steps back to Tubes. Go with a solid state amp with the NHTs. Any speaker with an impedance curve that varies a lot across its frequency range is generally not a good match for a tube amp. | |
| SET with inefficient speakers On their website Dali claims to have a very flat impedance curve. If so, you'll be able to drive your Dali well with a 10wpc SE amp w/o much problems.BTW, I drove 88db efficient speakers with a homerolled 2.5 wpc amp and the bass was astonishing. ... | |
| Which speakers are higher efficiency? Agreed with JohnK, neither two speakers you are a good match for a SE tube amp. Sensitivity is only one factor you must look at; more importantly is a benign impedance curve. You should consider one of Johns speakers (KCS), Cain and Cain or Carder... | |
| Choice of Koetsu cartridges? One of the platinums. |