timlub
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| Help me build a fine PC sound system Hi Blindjim, I am attaching a thread from Headfi.org This soundcard/dac had a thread there that ran about 2 years. It is the Musiland Monitor 02US. It is a pain to set up because of all it takes to get it right, but when you get there, I have foun... | |
| Appreciate recommendations for SS preamp purchase Hi Noslepums,I tend to think pretty much like Michael above (Sufentanil)But I would like to add to his list a couple of my favorite $1000 or under pre's. The Muse 3 Signature is musical and envolving, smooth and detailed, articulate and great bass... | |
| Is preamp remote volume a deal breaker for you? Remotes have never been a deal breaker for me.... until I found a few different nice sounding pre's with a remote...Deal has been broken | |
| Android Tablets - Plausible to use asMusic Server? Places like Best Buy regularly have notebooks that have a dual core processor, windows 7, 3gb ram and 320gb hard drive for $350 or less... Add JRivers or Foobar 2000 as a server program, download wasapi for output and you are set for a great and i... | |
| Android Tablets - Plausible to use asMusic Server? You'd really need an external hard drive. I haven't seen a tablet with more that 32mb drive.... | |
| Best Bang 4 the $ Intergrated Amp Hard core bang for the buck... Audio Refinement Complete. This is surprisingly good and cheap. 50 watts to 8 & 90 watts to 4. In the same league in sound quality, but a bit more power is Musical fidelity A3cr or 3.2. A clear step up, still wit... | |
| preamp advice.. quad 909 + esl-63 I like all of Stanwal's suggestions. There is a B&K Pro 10 on agon right now @ $285.00. It is as good as you'll get at the price point, musical and smooth, good bass and this one is in very good shape. Good Luck,Tim | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Hi Magfan, I am no amp designer, I have built alot of speakers. Recently I built a nice MTM. I ended up with an 4 ohm bottom and an 8 ohm top..... In speakers anyway, where you deal with impedance dips and peaks of up to 30 ohm or more, it is not ... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Unsound, Atmasphere wrote about Power and voltage Paradigms. Here is his article:http://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.html | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Atmosphere: "Its like I said, just follow the money. The advent of transistor amps and lower efficiency speakers was not about advancing the art (although the marketing certainly made it look that way) it was about *making money*"Hi Ralph, I reall... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Acurus, Rather than getting yourself so upset and others until you are called names, Why didn't you just click on another thread and ignore this one? I completely agree that there has been alot of useless info passed, but in this thread some knowl... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Speaker manufacturing has evolved. Technology has improved in the form of materials, software and the equipment that drivers are made from. All along, manufactures have done their best to produce a quality product. The solid state amp came to be c... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Charles1dad:"It seems the popularity and proliferation of low efficiency speakers can be traced to the advent of transistor amplifiers" I didn't know the tracing of low efficiency speakers to be linked to solid state amplifiers. Could you please e... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? Atmosphere: "the simple fact is that any speaker that has high efficiency conforms to the Power Paradigm unless the designer went through extraordinary steps to prevent that"This is fact: My Current MTM's had a hugh power response hump about an oc... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? You know guys, it seems to me that the op really just wanted to know if if efficiency is something to seek out. We have all blown this up. I have built speakers from 84 db sensitivity to 99 db sensitivity... The all sounded quite good in their own... |