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| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. The solder joints just fall apart from vibration. Interesting. My Force is still going strong after 15 years. Pre ROHS.Two good questions for sub makers :)Another is "Why provide such useless controls?" Many subs are clearly not designed to be int... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. I would like to hear how each of you figured out how much power you needed to buy in watts?Never bought by power. Always purchased by sound.Currently have 100 and 150w SS and 40w tube84db 1w / 1m. min 3.2Ω, max 16Ω, mean 7ΩLoud level is 90db C wei... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @cakyolI predict that these capacitors will be in a vicinity with a temperature of about 60 - 65 C most of the timeDefinitely use 105°C parts.Cap ESR goes up with age, so while the C may still be good with old parts, the increased ESR will play ha... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. If a system is not broken and has serious deficiencies cables will likely not correct the problem. How can they?I'm not suggesting cables can cure a serious deficiencies. However, since cables interact with the amplifier and the loudspeaker, they ... | |
| Watkins Stereo Generation FOUR Loudspeakers Compelling BARGAIN!! BTW, the post by IEALES is disrespectful and inaccurate. Sorry Bill, but the post is accurate.All drivers have a high frequency resonance. For Peerless 6.5" woofers it can clearly be seen here https://www.tymphany.com/transducers/sds-160f25cp01-... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. The whole idea of tuning a system with cables seems rather weak to me.The missus once said "Those wires are the only ones where the clarinet sounds like a clarinet." [She had perfect pitch and played the clarinet.] We had decent amp and speakers, ... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. And, with regard to the great interconnect debate: do you know of any testing done that approaches that of scientific blind testing that shows that any given wire, if made out of a certain material, and wound in a certain way, and shielded in a ce... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Keep in mind just because a unit has a XLR input that is no assurance that the input is balanced.A balanced input is no guarantee of better sonics. The devil is in the details.Every audiophile should read Bill Whitlock's AES paper"An Overview of A... | |
| Anyone compared GoldenEar Triton 7 with Triton Reference? Nola - NOT!They will be a phase nightmare with an incoherent image.Their product sheet is laughable buzzword bingo: These drivers employ advanced technical features such as edge-wound Kapton voice coilsKapton is an insulator, so a voice coil made ... | |
| Watkins Stereo Generation FOUR Loudspeakers Compelling BARGAIN!! Nope.From TAS : The front baffle is angled backwards to time-align the drivers by placing the acoustic center of the tweeter behind that of the woofer. This also helps to match the sensitivity of the woofer (88dB) with that of the tweeter (91dB) w... | |
| Anyone compared GoldenEar Triton 7 with Triton Reference? I get your point regarding the size of the sweet spot, but that in and of itself is unnatural. That's not how one hears things when one is at a live acoustic event when one moves around. The Ohms are much closer to the live experience with this on... | |
| Anyone compared GoldenEar Triton 7 with Triton Reference? The only drawback of all the GE speakers is a narrow sweet spot.Interesting. I've never found a narrow sweet spot to be a defect but a strength.Mixing on a nebulous speaker makes it difficult to create a sound stage whereas one with pinpoint focus... | |
| full-scale orchestral music—best test of speakers’ potential? You are orthogonal to reality. Please provide laboratory test data to support that most CDs are inverted polarity relative to the master tape.None that I checked ever were.And, Mr. Kait, please answer a question that has always bothered me about t... | |
| full-scale orchestral music—best test of speakers’ potential? There are no standards for PolarityThat nonsense went out in the 60's. Studios and engineers were very cognizant of polarity and gear was wired so the studio maintained it. By the time CDs made their appearance, it was a non-issue.A studio may hav... | |
| full-scale orchestral music—best test of speakers’ potential? Makes us even. Most CDs are not inverted. |