kosst_amojan
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| Be Careful! I've been digging around inside of electronics for 25 years and of all the modes of failure I've come across I can't say static has ever been one. I've delivered some bone-jarring static charges to my gear and never so much as a tick from the spea... | |
| Carbon fibre sleeve over existing cabling, incredible If carbon fiber is good, then carbo-tanium is better. | |
| What Class A is better? SUGDEN FPA-4 or PASS LABS XA-25 As someone mentioned, it's warmer sounding, which is generally expected of a single ended topology. That's not a very common solid state topology. Most turn to tubes for it. It's characterized by a dominant second order distortion harmonic. If tha... | |
| How can Wilson Audio speakers sound that good if they are using OEM drivers? Wilson seemed to love stuffing big Focal W cone woofers in things for a while. All the Alexandria line sports W cone woofers. I'm not terribly surprised Wilson steered clear of Focal mid-range drivers. Focal likes to make mid-range cones rather la... | |
| How can Wilson Audio speakers sound that good if they are using OEM drivers? There seems to be some assumption that a material is just a material regardless of it's manufacture. Correctly manufactured paper has a very high speed of sound while still achieving good damping and stiffness. Wilson used to use a bunch of Focal ... | |
| What Class A is better? SUGDEN FPA-4 or PASS LABS XA-25 In all reality, they're two completely different topologies. Pass doesn't sell any single ended class A amps anymore. They're all push-pull which is why the XA-25 is a more muscular amp. That Sudgen is clearly a single ended amp. | |
| Chinese Class A SS I would be extremely skeptical of any Chinese amp professing finer components. China is the source for most of the counterfeits labeled with those brands. | |
| Tekton custom grills I wouldn't call this operation a "manufacturer". "Amateur integrator" would be more appropriate. He's a glorified DIY'er with poor management skills. | |
| Tekton custom grills That's the clear and obvious solution. It makes a lot more sense than getting you're reputation smeared because of something so stupid. I don't understand why they all don't come with grills though. Who sells speakers that don't come with grills??? | |
| What Class A is better? SUGDEN FPA-4 or PASS LABS XA-25 My homebrew Pass F5 is more robustly built than that Sudgen, and so is the XA-25 by a country mile. There’s a ton of stuff that just screams "CHEAP!!!!" to me. A 300VA toroidal is the bare-bones minimum for a 30 watt class A amp. A 400VA center ta... | |
| Effect Ohms Have on db and Speaker Sensitivity Try the 4 ohm taps if it's got them. | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? @mapman That's an extremely poor definitely of "nuts". | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? @geoffkait I googled it. "geoffkait's generic name-calling smear in the face of anything that violates his mythology". It's like you don't actually know what the term means because you never use it in a context that coincides with it's definition. | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? @georgehifi Couldn't agree more. This is a very technical hobby and I think too many gaze on their gear with mystic fantasies and esoteric occult grandeur. | |
| Effect Ohms Have on db and Speaker Sensitivity How exactly do you plan on changing the nominal impedance of the speaker? That is what the 6 ohms means and that's not changing. |