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| Need help What monoblock power amps for bass? A nice trick with Maggies, at least with tube amps, is keep the speaker cables short, really short, like maybe only 6 inches. I've heard that make a profound difference. | |
| Can tubes ever be as quiet Solid State The trick to getting tubes to be really quiet is the same that is used by transistors- fully differential circuits with really good constant current sources, with a well-regulated bi-polar power supplyThis is not to say that such a circuit will be... | |
| What do defective phono tubes sound like? Sirspeedy, I would be suspicious that the CD player is making either RF, DC or both. I'd pull it out of the system altogether, as if it is RF, well, that stuff can get in everywhere!Given what you have told me its *not* the tone arm that did that.... | |
| speakers for classical music Shadorne is right about 'damping', and in fact its more profound then that- once damping factor exceeds about 20:1 or so, there is no improvement gained. 'Damping factor' is a bit of a misnomer, as it assumes more about the load being inductive th... | |
| Recommended 12au7/5814s for Atma-sphere MP-3 In the MP-1, starting from the rear, the 1st two positions are wired differentially within a tube and the 2 tubes are then in parallel. This is the bottom of the cascode. The 3rd tube is the top of the cascode. So the 1st two make the most differe... | |
| What do defective phono tubes sound like? I would check for continuity between the ground of the table and the chassis ground of the preamp. | |
| speakers for classical music I've spent years playing bass in orchestras and also recording them. I've also spent years looking for the best classical recordings, like a lot of people on this list. What I have found is if you really have a good recording, very few speakers wi... | |
| Need help What monoblock power amps for bass? Audiobb, you can use the passive crossovers in the speaker if they are designed in such a way to allow for separate amps. The problem is that while the speaker only sees the frequencies it is supposed to, the amp still has to reproduce full-range.... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" Wireless200, as time has gone by and my equipment has improved, I have found that many 'bad' recordings were exacerbated by problems in the equipment. For years now I have used that as a yardstick. The playback should be unperturbed by a bad recor... | |
| speakers for classical music If the speaker does classical music well it should do rock and jazz just as well, else it has some sort of rather serious flaw. It would only a matter of time before a classical recording would show up that flaw big time (try an original press of ... | |
| mo' better bass: any substitute for watts? Saki70, with regards to efficiency vs impedance, to me they seem to carry about the same weight. However if the speaker is really low efficiency, you are going to have power issues driving it (BTW 'really low' is 87db or less). Given that that is ... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" I have plenty of recordings that seem bass deficient to me. I don't listen to recordings for bass or lack thereof- I listen to the music (unless I'm doing some sort of reference work). I do want honesty though, I'll take the lack of bass in some r... | |
| Anyone into 78s, mono classical LPs? Piedpiper, I would love to find a 78 copy of the Four Last Songs, by Richard Strauss. It was conducted live by Wilhelm Furtwangler, and is easily the best performance of the Four Last Songs. I have the HiFi mono version, with Schwartzkopf singing,... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" The idea of tone controls is very different from the idea of using equipment **as** tone controls!The whole point of high end audio (IMO) is to get as close to reproducing the original musical event as possible. If you have ever played with tone c... | |
| mo' better bass: any substitute for watts? Saki70, FWIW Steve McCormick, who has been making solid state amps for years, reports that his amps sound better driving a 4 ohm load though the ZERO, such that the amp is loaded at 16 ohms. His amps easily double power- they have no problem drivi... |