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| Which stereo amp to try under $30k To be sure it's clear, my previous comments about the speaker not being friendly to tube amplification do not apply to the Aesthetix Atlas Eclipse, since its output stage is solid state.Regards,-- Al | |
| Which stereo amp to try under $30k The impedance curves shown in John Atkinson’s measurements of your speaker indicate, on paper at least, that the speaker is highly unfriendly to tube amplification. Especially in key parts of the bass region that you are concerned with, e.g. 50 to... | |
| Vacuum tubes: Radio tubes, TV tubes, Audio tubes To add to the good comments above, during the many decades in which tube-based radios and TVs were produced countless different tube types came into existence, and were used in countless different radios and TVs. A small fraction of those tube typ... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Signal make some excellent cables at very fair prices, imo. +1. I've used a couple of their Digital Reference power cords with fine results. And Frank, the proprietor, is a class act.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Take a tour of Nelson Pass’ listening room Thanks for posting the link, Imhififan. I enjoyed watching it.I’ve long felt that Nelson Pass is one of the most remarkable figures among audio designers/manufacturers, in entirely positive ways, as well as a class act. At the same time as he has ... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? It’s easy enough to use an external DAC and/or an external A/D Converter with a DEQX, while still taking full advantage of DEQX’s very extensive and in some ways unique DSP capabilities. Although most DEQX users who have posted here (including me,... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Hi Richard,What I was saying at the end of my previous post is that most likely there is no issue with leaving the black wire (and eventually wires plural) unconnected, at least in your situation. And even if there is an issue (which I suspect th... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Quick question for Al, if I were to hook up my two (2) subs to my Rowland stereo amp, would I actually utilize the summed red and yellow cables for each left and right connector and the black cable ( now two) for the ground connector ( that Jeff i... | |
| A civil discussion about the state of Audio Research Thanks for what in my opinion is a particularly excellent and well-stated post, Fsonicsmith, that will of course be of interest to many here. (Personally I don't own any ARC gear, though).You may not have noticed in the other thread you referre... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Hi Lalit,Given that the amps you referred to are SETs they do not have balanced or bridged outputs, so connecting your subs as you have described is perfectly fine.My statement about counting their blessings referred to what I had said just before... | |
| DSP crossovers and Phono Stages Not in the case of the DEQX HDP-5, which I own and which like various other DEQX models is remarkably transparent.If you haven’t already seen the following lengthy thread, you’ll find comments in it by a number of members attesting to the transpar... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Daveyf 9-22-2019I connect my subs with the red and yellow summed to the red output per amp and the black to the black output per amp. This is with dual subs and mono blocks. In the case of an amp having balanced outputs, such as Ricred’s, the blac... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Ricred 9-22-2019 Al,"So are you saying, then, that the only difference between what worked and what previously didn’t work was twisting the red and yellow wires together, while having exactly the same connections in both cases?" YES I believe the ... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Wow! Congratulations.So are you saying, then, that the only difference between what worked and what previously didn’t work was twisting the red and yellow wires together, while having exactly the same connections in both cases? If so, I have no id... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers I just received a call from REL. They said I could ground the sub/amp by going from the REL’s LFE to my Rowland Corus preamp while leaving the black lead floating. Not sure that the REL person is realizing that the inputs of your amp are transfor... |