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| Martin Logan Quest Z Bass - can it be fixed ? Great analysis Drew_eckhart. Didnt the ML Prodigys have a push pull dipole-like woofer or am I mistaken? | |
| Martin Logan Quest Z Bass - can it be fixed ? you must protect the panels from bass energy.Drive full range = disaster.YOu may disable the woofer and custom build a woofer for it.The SL3 is the most successful in mating a relatively quick woofer for the panels.Not so with Quests and Monoliths... | |
| Martin Logan Quest Z Bass - can it be fixed ? Adding a sub makes it worse. It's a phase coherence issue.The "speed" of the panel and that of the cheap cone are vastly different.Tried it before... biamp, muscle amp, cables, you name it.They play certain things right but once it gets to bass in... | |
| Thiel CS3.5 vs CS3.6 Art, Believe it or not I have "downgraded" from Avalon Eidolons to JM Lab Utopia Divas (call me crazy but I spent quite a bit of time modifying them, in stock form they are terrible, but I got tired of the Accuton ceramic tweeter of the Avalons). ... | |
| $3500 to spend on a tube preamp....ideas? I assume phono stage not required?Consider the Ming Da Mc-2a3 for about 1k and throw in 1k worth of mods. Any competent tech can do the mods and make it rival anything thats out there. There are a number of fellow audiophiles here and on AA who ca... | |
| CAV-50 and 804 Diamonds CAV-50 may sound better than Krell integrated unless it's one of the newer Krell's made less than 10 years ago. | |
| ARC vt100mkiii Questions? I sure hope you are using power tubes from Audio Research.At 60mA or higher those so-called Black Sable 6550Cs wont last you more than a few hundred hours.User beware. | |
| Thiel CS3.5 vs CS3.6 If I remember correctly Art actually took over the 3.6s from my friend after we both gave up and went with Avalons. I guess Art had Thiel 3s right? | |
| Avalon Acoustics vs Wilson Audio I second Nolitan and Elberoth. I've owned Eidolons for over 10 years now. I dont think that even WP7 is less musical than my Eidolons (not diamond, not vision). | |
| CAV-50 and 804 Diamonds The CJ CAV-50 is the 40W per channel Ultralinear integrated.To get it "up to par" with speakers worthy of diamond tweeters you need to sink in major $$$ to redo the power supply.Do you want to stick with Integrated amp or go separate?The only inte... | |
| Thiel CS3.5 vs CS3.6 An audio buddy had a pair of 3.5s I listened to many times and he bought my 3.6s.The 3.6s are one grade up for sure but both have woofer issues.The 3.5 uses a bass equalizer to add artificial bass,the 3.6 uses a passive radiator that emits a one n... | |
| Does the wilson sophia 1 sound good only with perf May I ask which Audio Research pre/power are you using?I heard them through the more modern Audio Research gear (Ref 2 or was it ref 3 driving a VT 1X0 (forgot, sorry) )and didnt like them.Then I heard them driven by Melody 1688 (a very sweet 6SN7... | |
| Avalon Acoustics vs Wilson Audio I've owned Ascent IIs, Monitors, and still own Eidolons.After listening to WP7s, Sophia 2s, and WP8, my vote goes to Wilson. WP7 and Eidolon used prices are roughly the same.The Eidolon's accuton and possible the crossover makes it borderline grai... | |
| Help needed to diagnose preamp channel unbalance. Alps volume is like "Vishay resistors"They have different grades, starting at a few bucks each.Chinese amps have "alps motorized volume pots",probably made by the same people who make fake gucci handbags.6550Cs problem is likely the preamp has a g... | |
| Help needed to diagnose preamp channel unbalance. If the volume control is discrete resistor based, then its one of the following possible scenarios:Cathode and plate resistor mismatch between the channels.(no, tube mismatch wont affect gain unless the cathode is grounded and you are using a bias... |