eldartford
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| Driver efficiency vs. overall speaker efficiency You can't measure the efficiency of a bare driver. It needs to be in some sort of test enclosure. The test enclosure is not the same as the final system enclosure, and may yield a lower efficiency measurement. This is not a problem if your objecti... | |
| Mercury Living Presence SACD's The Tchaikovsky Symphony 6, "Pathetique", Pierre Monteax conducting the BSO (when the BSO was great) is of course a superb and classic performance. Various aspects of the recording technique are also also exceptional, but, as with the Chopin Balla... | |
| Limited budget-spend more money on amp or preamp? Muzikat...Correction. Speakers produce a lot more than what is fed to them. They (like all transducers)superimpose their character on the sound. Source quality-per-dollar goes up a lot faster than speaker quality-per-dollar. And if you consider th... | |
| Limited budget-spend more money on amp or preamp? How about a good Integrated amp. This will make you happy for now. When you win the lottery you can add a low level electronic crossover and a power amp to biamp the speakers.I think it is speakers first, with the proviso that the power amp must b... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Maybe that's why the Maggie MG1.6 sound good. Crossover consists of one inductor and one capacitor for the woofer, and one capacitor (implemented as a parallel group) for the tweeter. And NO RESISTOR unless you choose to insert one. This also made... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Tom...These speakers will never sound great, but they do need all the help they can get:-) | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. OK. OK. I will try the North Creek resistors.I guess that the supposed superiority of these resistors is based on characteristics other than inductance, which would obviously be of no concern. | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Herman...I confess, that was me about the wire twisting. It was indeed an "inane" question, and intended as such, but only a slight extension of some ideas put forth here. (eg: wires on Dixie cups). Let's not take ourselves too seriously.This ques... | |
| Living Stereo SACD's are a comin My selection of these discs arived today, and I just listened to the Chopin performance by Rubinstein. I have most of these recordings in vinyl. The SACD is to my mind a big improvement over the vinyl: I appreciate the center channel, particularly... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Tom...It might take a 10K speaker system, and comparable electronics to hear the difference between resistors! Since I am into the business of installing resistors anyway I just might try an experiment: comparing a 38 cent resistor in one speaker ... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Theaudiotweak...1. I asked because some people (like you) insist that resistor type affects sound. Although it doesn't make sense to me, I am open minded enough to listen to other points of view. So far I am unconvinced. 2. Please you tell me what... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Theaudiotweak...As I said, I have always used "Audiophile" resistors (not necessarily North Creek items). But I don't know why, and I rather doubt that it would make any difference for these little boxes. When I replaced the crossovers of my Maggi... | |
| Equalizers anyone? Sean...Procedures for room EQ (that I have seen) always call for the process to be done with the mic in several locations, and the results averaged. Some automatic EQ systems store the results of several runs and do the average for you. (But I'm s... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Herman...Not really. Since "audiophile quality" non-inductive resistors are quite inexpensive (compared with inductors and capacitors) I have never given much thought to why non-inductive was important. The financial considerations of patching up ... | |
| Capacitor-less amps John_tracy...But it doesn't pass through it. |