kosst_amojan
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| MAC Autoformers? It doesn't sound like transformers are that well understood by some. Their big failing is that they are massive inductive loads on the output devices. They don't insulate the amp from the load because things happening on the secondary definitely d... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @terry9 I couldn't possibly agree more with where you're at. There are so many things that make a vastly bigger difference for a hundredth or a thousandth of the price. It just makes sense to the informed, value-conscious listener to pusue those o... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? It's nothing short of foolishness to suggest speaker technology has gone backwards in the last 50 years. We barely use terms like "east coast", "west coast", and "British" to describe the sound of speakers. That's the case because what the entire ... | |
| Speaker Dilemma--A Good One to Have but Confused The Focal Aria is a richer speaker than the PSB in virtually every regard. HR reviewed both and I personally feel his reviews on the PSB, Focal 936, and other competitive speakers reflect the reality. I love my 936’s. Huge, deep, detailed soundsta... | |
| balanced components I'm not sure I understand the question. Do you mean the amp doesn't have a balanced output stage? | |
| Best sounding transistors I'd say any amp built without provision to correct DC offset variances is a very poorly and cheaply designed amplifier regardless of the gain devices. Go look at the AK pinned thread on bias. There's no shortage of BJT amps sporting 200mV offsets,... | |
| Autoformer vs Speaker impedance Curve Large impedance swings and severe phase angles do exactly what you’d expect; they produce dips and humps in response. McIntosh is about the only solid state manufacturer to use output coupling transformers. If you’re driving benign, modestly react... | |
| Autoformer vs Speaker impedance Curve An autoformers is just a transformer where the primary and secondary share a terminal. It doesn't make them behave radically different than a normal transformer. Pretty much everything that applies to trasformers is true for autoformers. | |
| The Question,Tekton Pendragons or Focal 1028 BE I can't take Tekton seriously because of stories like this thread began with, and there's no shortage of stories like that. The Focal is a vastly better speaker if you appreciate what it is. It's far better built with better drivers, and you're su... | |
| Class D Audio Tom's tend to be swell guys in my experience, though they are known to have issues. Apparently class D is this Tom's issue. As for efficiency, we are Americans and it's our God given right to consume as much power as is necessary to achieve sonic ... | |
| Is Speaker design evolution stagnant @bache Not trying to argue. Just pointing out facts. Generally, the more complicated you make the system, the more complicated the problems and distortion get. I've seen what it takes to make an active crossover that replicates what a well designe... | |
| Is Speaker design evolution stagnant @bache I build or rebuilt my own stuff except for the Focal speakers. Practically nobody here is listening like I am for as little money as I've spent. To do as you suggest I would spend nearly the price of the speakers to simply build the crossov... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Practically nobody is running an impedance converting amplifier like the F4. It is, for all intents and purposes, a gigantic buffer that allows high impedance sources to drive low impedance loads. It's designed on the premise that the best place t... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? @atmasphere It's totally obvious to me! | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Just as a matter of studied fact, people do become skilled at using their senses. It's a bit harder to demonstrate with listening, but it's well documented that visual artists become practiced, methodical viewers as coorelated with eye movement wh... |