mijostyn
thanks for your comments.
turns out eight 24 gauge is equiv to 15 gauge. any other factors of cat 5 involved with 'inductance' concerns?
16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical.
chakster
thanks. as usual, I wish you lived next door so I could hear your variety of speakers, equipment, .... 160 ohm resistor across the terminals. any idea what/why? |
three_easy_payments
thanks, we agree about the video and advantages of 16 ohm reduced distortion. In the beginning, when 4 ohm speakers showed up, some sounded very good, however they were small enclosures, and it seemed to me they needed a heck of a lot of power, the complete opposite of my goals. I didn't know about amount of distortion involved. I encourage trying tube amps, and the way to save money/size/heat/cost of tube rolling/replacing, is to start with efficient speakers, thus you can stay in the 35/30/25 wpc world of tubes, even less if you use horn speakers or other highly efficient speakers. My friends system uses 8 wpc tube amps. I remodeled my office recently, my friend has an unused pair of KEF's, I remember them sounding great, I was going to use my Carver Cube 200wpc, enough power for them. However they are 15" deep (to get more box volume, avoiding port(s) I suppose), sadly too deep for bookshelf use. |
Roger Modjeski always recommended "light loading" his amps and gave numerous reasons why this was beneficial. Some were mentioned by @atmasphere in a previous post. On a pair of 8 ohm speakers I run my RM10 off the 4 ohm tap. The difference is very noticeable versus the 8 ohm tap. Roger often opined why 16 ohms speakers went out of style. Oddly enough in cleaning things up around Roger's shop I ran across a set of Chartwell speakers that are 15 ohms. Going to give them a try on my RM10. |