eldartford
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| SA-CD/DVD-A? True, I don't see many SACD or DVDA in record stores, but who buys from record stores anyway? They never have much in the way of classical music on any media. Check out the web sources (such as elusivedisc.com or acousticsounds.com) and you will s... | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Tbg..."Mismark"? JBL probably thinks they are right and the world is wrong. And this is ALL JBL drivers not just the ones I use (according to what I read). It is purely arbitrary anyway, and as Sean says you just connect wires accordingly. | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Tbg... JBL LF drivers are also phased backwards from the rest of the world. I actually experienced this when wiring up some 15" JBL subwoofers together with some 12" subwoofer drivers of a different brand, and thought that I had screwed up the wir... | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Tbg...Unless it is a JBL driver, which goes the opposite way. | |
| question on using my SPL meter Your quote indicates that there is no "right" answer. The ear's variable frequency response as a function of SPL is why preamps used to have "Loudness" controls. Nowadays you have to play with the tone controls, but they have become rare in modern... | |
| Review: H2o Audio Signature Monoblocks Muralman1...Yes, CarverPro uses the Tripath module. The Tripath people will tell you why their design is better, and the ICE folk will blow their horn. The only thing I know for sure is that the H2o costs more than three times as much and delivers... | |
| Review: H2o Audio Signature Monoblocks I might buy the stereo version, partly out of curiosity regarding how it might compare with my CarverPro ZR1600. The comment about the H2o resembles what was going around several years ago about the ZR1600. The main difference is that the H2O cost... | |
| Better SS amp than my Bryston? Cinematic_systems...You should not be so dogmatic about Maggie ribbons. Quite apart from the lower cost and lesser tendancy to be damaged, some people prefer the MG1.6 sound. There is something to be said for having the tweeter and the woofer shar... | |
| Rothwell In-Line Attenuators? These attenuators, or ones you could make with a few resistors, are no different from the multiposition Attenuators costing several hundred dollars that some audiophiles prefer to pots for gain control, except that they are permanently set to one ... | |
| "High Current" Sean...How could I have missed your point? All those beautiful audiophile words..Clean power, refined musical and natural, lack of smearing strain and ringing, harmonic structure, yada yada,yada. I just don't agree with all your conclusions. | |
| "High Current" Sean...To put it briefly...we don't operate our amps at clipping. What we care about is distortion-free power, and that's what is usually quoted.BEAR this in mind :-) | |
| mono amp for sub Rooze...I use CarverPro zr1600 amps for my subwoofers, and they certainly do the job. One advantage, for a SW, of the zr1600, or any digital amp, is that their efficiency is very high. Much music has no signal content in the SW range, and where th... | |
| "High Current" Sean...To achieve the "doubling down" at clipping which you describe requires a substantial increase in the power supply cost. It is not a characteristic that is particularly useful in the home audio situation, where amps are not driven to clippin... | |
| mono amp for sub Kenwood LO7M (vintage from the 80's). DC coupled from input to output, and super for a SW amp. (Lots of luck finding one). | |
| Anybody blow a ceramic woofer with an OTL amp? I used tube circuitry for several decades and never had a tube "blow". In my experience when a tube "went bad" there were symptoms like audio distortion, noise, oscillation, blue glow and the like but never anything catistrophic.One of the disadva... |