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| Counterpoint - Alta Vista - Mike Elliott Happily retired. | |
| Jm Lab Alto Utopia what kind of amplifier ? Try using a high end hybrid amp.A good friend has an AltaVista NP100 Platinum build driving his Altos.Does the beryllium tweeters justice and has enough current to deal with the flabby woofer. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Granny ring beware that 1500uf usually means high esr.You don't need 4 caps in series unless you have 1200v B+.Best is just 4 470 to 560uf arranged in a square quad ie both series and parallel to yield a composite cap of 560uf 900v. | |
| Review: JM Labs Diva Utopia Be Speaker Nick Gowan is a scholar and a gentleman and I am about 15 miles away from him. As if he would like to do it. Maybe I can help chip in my 2 cents. | |
| Review: JM Labs Diva Utopia Be Speaker Do you have access to anyone who knows how to operate a soldering iron of 25w or more and knows how not to overheat a component? | |
| Review: JM Labs Diva Utopia Be Speaker Even simpler and cheaper go mod than the three way ones. It will take it to micro utopia level. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil The supply caps to the output stage NEEDS to be big, as big as the tranny and rectifier diodes can handle. A composite config of about 800V or higher tolerance is needed due to turn on spike.Hardly anyone uses film for the output stage.You need ab... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Take a picture and email it to me. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Grannyring, Lytics are not necessarily bad when they are used pre-regulation. I use Nichicon 400V audio grade caps in my amps for smoothing before regulation. Check mouser or digikey and see if your current caps are low ESR. If so they are good en... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Nichicon caps are it bad caps at all and to me they sound better then Sprague atom any day.If they are before the regulator, as long as they are less than 10 years old I suggest you leave them alone.Post regulation bypass is a different story. Try... | |
| Amp suggestions for Avalon Radian HC Not a believer in cables ever except when I had Apogees with low low impedance.INstead of spending thousands in cables try a pair of cheap high current mono SS amp for the bass and get the dude to drive both the ST100 and the SS amps.$100 bucks sp... | |
| Amp suggestions for Avalon Radian HC Giving up already ? I had my ascents for many years before finally throwing in the towel. There are many great qualities of the Radian you will miss. | |
| Amp suggestions for Avalon Radian HC I tried all sorts of audio research with my ascent ii.CL120, VT150, CL150, VT200, VT130 with and without mods. While they can drive full range with no clipping they sounded pretty unmusical. Not even close to acceptable compared against TRL s100 m... | |
| Furtwangler's 9th on Arkipel. Glad you still have the SA11. Take VERY good care of it as Dai no longer services audio gear.The Ming Da... keep it, there are ways to make the filament supply better, less prone to noise and less whistling. These things don't have much resale val... | |
| Furtwangler's 9th on Arkipel. Otto you are definitely the living encyclopedia of classical music recordings.Just so happens I have the abovementioned recording in CD in front of me, an EMI ARt reissue of that performance.BTW you still have the SA11 and the Ming Da?Cheers,-Johnson |