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| Is 5 Watts enough for Horns ? The guy I bought the deHavilland gear from had the faceplates of the mono amps & preamp goldplated at a plating shop. He had an oversized volume knob machined at a machine shop. The volume knob & source selectorknob are also gold platedNow... | |
| Gunk will not clean off LP ? Thanks Eldartford | |
| Is 5 Watts enough for Horns ? Lonestarblues: no doubt, 3,5W sound OK on yr COrnwalls. BUT, try 20W capability and listen to orchestral music -- and I think you'll be surprised.You've modded those Cornwalls I assume (nice spkrs)? | |
| Hearing loss and audio reviewers ? READ ON "Perfect hearing" as described above correlates to the upper frequency response of the system and, mostly SPL. That's only one parametre -- and, outside a FR window (say 15-16kHz), not the most important one IMO. Coherency, correct reproduction of... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? A Symphonic Line Reference one-box cdp -- for the last 7yrs.It still works OK, a bit long in the tooth... it's satisfying AFA digital goes | |
| Speaker cone material pro's and con's Eldartford:Is my lighthearted mention of walking on water considered polemicHardly. If anything, a refreshingly light note...! | |
| Opportunity to buy the best Preamp... but which? Mikelavigne makes a point about the Dartzeel pre linked via bnc to their amp.I had a unscientific experience listening to orchestral music, with that pre:The Dartzeel 18 vs the FM acoustics 255: the 255 was better driving a Dart amp (more sense of... | |
| ASR EmiterII exclusive, follow up? Why use an active pre with the Emitter?? It already has enough gain stages inside... | |
| Gunk will not clean off LP ? Eldartford -- do these cirtus fruit based solvents have a particular name/designation one could look out for? | |
| Best Sonus Faber for 16 sq room. ? Good luck, Tda!An Amati in each corner with the two ports firing into an horn (the room floor + corner walls)... won't be easy to set up!Your room is too small for bass and I strongly suggest you gauge the sound by focusing on midbass -- NOT bass ... | |
| 1st Order Xovers....A question of absolute volume. The xover slope shouldn't impact on the max spl of a spkr... it's the drivers that do.Dunlavy produced huge sealed spkrs with 1st order (I think). They play very loud... | |
| Cartridge life span? Depending upon (MIS)use a well constructed, fresh MC would last 3-5000 hrs of playing.Limiting factors include, dropping rather than cueing the arm on the lp, incorrect setup, time & weather conditions... | |
| Making High End Clones at Home for Fun and Savings Cwlondon -- rule of the thumb: the parts price of a speaker is roughly 1/5th the retail price. That's NOT counting the work involved and the development, the investment in equipm't, cost of matching components, etc.OTOH, manufacturers get a much b... | |
| Cain & Cain Abbeys and Lowther drivers Will it work -- as in produce sound? For sure.Would this be a good match? Assuming you mean better than the Fostex (166?) I doubt it -- but you never know.Here are the measured TS parametres for the Dx4's and hereis N. Pass' trials with a number o... | |
| Speaker cone material pro's and con's Any debate on cone material is really only a contribution to the smoke screen which feeds audio marketing departmentsMaybe. BUT, the thread starter only asked for INFO and pointers, for goodness sake..I fail to understand the pursuant polemics...:) |