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| "Power hungry" speakers I assume that you're talking about Apogee's based on your impedances and mention of ribbons. Having said that, you state that the speakers are 76 dB's yet only a few amps could drive them beyond 70 dB's. How is that possible? It would require less... | |
| Is it best to use a 5-channel amp for biamping?? Planckscale: It is typically cheaper in the long run to plan ahead / think about future moves than to just buy what you can get by with now. If you take that approach, i can pretty much guarantee that you'll end up upgrading later and spending mor... | |
| balanced is inherently flawed Two things Ralph. "Not that I'm saying that SE is bad, just that balanced (done right, which is not that hard) is better and *any* audiophile can hear it. I had a girlfriend who was deaf in one ear, and half deaf in the other, and *she* could hear... | |
| directional arrows on interconnects El: If you found another source for your 45's other than the "pulls" from the juke-box at the local corner pub, you too might have a lower noise floor : ) Sean> | |
| "Power hungry" speakers Some distortions are not "additive" in nature i.e. they aren't creating / adding additional output on top of what the original signal had. This means that losing some ( any portion ) of the signal also equals to distortion. Since more power = more... | |
| "Power hungry" speakers Op-amps can sound quite good when properly selected and implimented. Obviously, there are vast differences amongst Op-amps. Stereophile ran a very interesting article on the subject a few years back. Sean> | |
| Question about Gain, amp power and volume By having more steps in a control, you can obtain higher resolution. That is, rather than jumping up 2 or 3 dB's at a time, you can now step .5 or 1 dB at a time. This allows one to find the exact volume that they want. Only problem is, with that ... | |
| Amplifier design / Bob Carver's thoughts The older Phase amps were very simple circuits, but due to poor implimentation and quality control, sounded worse than they should have. If one removed the current limiting circuit and matched the output transistors on these amps, you would get ri... | |
| Question about Gain, amp power and volume All i will say is that you can't have "too much" power with Dunlavy's. I think that there are better ways to achieve what you desire, but i'm not you and we probably see things differently. Sean> | |
| Amplifier design / Bob Carver's thoughts Rgcards: While i basically understand what you're saying and agree with you to a certain point, i also think that Bob gets hung up on bringing his ideas to fruition. As such, some of the fruits of his labor aren't implimented quite as well as they... | |
| EAD lacks power compared to Sherbourn Look at the input sensitivity of the Sherbourn compared to the EAD. It is possible that the Sherbourn requires less drive to obtain rated output than the EAD does, so in effect, you've got to crank the gain up higher on the TG II in order to compe... | |
| Question about Gain, amp power and volume I need to amend what i said here:"Now you've got two attenuators in line, which can only sound worse."The following is actually more accurate:"Now you've got two attenuators in line, which can only perform worse. With that in mind, that doesn't me... | |
| Acurus Act-3 volume level Snicka: I think that the units with adjustable input gain are designs that do not allow analogue pass through. If i recall correctly, the ACT 3 does allow pass through, so it may not have this feature.For those that are wondering what pass through... | |
| Amplifier design / Bob Carver's thoughts Steakster: The Lightstar Reference is supposed to be slightly more neutral sounding than the Sunfire amps. Bob purposely built a slight dip into the upper midrange / lower treble of the Sunfire amps as he finds a small amount of euphonic colourati... | |
| Question about Gain, amp power and volume Ed brought up a good point and i agree. Having said that, i would rather have too much gain and have to keep the pot turned down than to have to run it at max and still be shy on volume. This is the kind of thing that boils down to component desig... |