alpha_03
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| Biamping with Digital amps Minimally Effective? what is the input Impeadence of your amplifiers?If it is below 25kOhm you have your problem in hand, most pre-amps wont drive two amplifiers below 25kOhm sensitivity because in series the load is halved, this load (what the pre-amp sees), i.e. two... | |
| tube watts vs solid state watts Watt's are Watt's period. As for tube vs ss with concern for dynamic headroom, heh, the guy that said tubes have 3 to 6 dB more head room is quite incorrect.Tubes DO NOT scale on the power curve as SS amps do, why? Because they are non-linear, tha... | |
| Why so many amplifiers for sale? TUBES, that's where most everyone I know is headed- I can not for the life of me figure this out. I have some really good tube gear on hand, and really good SS gear beats it's ass IMHO in all but the midrange. Yes tubes sound good, at LOWER volume... | |
| Van Alstine Well I recieved my preamp today and it arrived as listed, it sounds very very good. All be it it is kind of smallish. I am simply amazed at how such an old design can compete and even surpass my modern day gear I have. To my ears it sounds better ... | |
| B&K ST 202+ Hello again, If you decide to switch speakers, the Dynaudio lines, Vandersteen's, and the Theils (expensive and require very good amplifiers to really "sing") are good, but for the money, have a look at B&W's 600 or 700 series line, they are v... | |
| whats your idea of loud music. Seems to me there is some difficulty with what a dB is and how it relates to the ability of the human ear, and hearing. 80dB is not very loud at all, but then is 150db loud to a jet mechanic? Not to me- I wear ear phones. The source may PEAK at 12... | |
| A tubes vs. Solid State question. Hmm, this is getting to be a good conversation. I have heard Krells, VTLs, Brystons and Holcrons in the same room with the same speakers and the same source players, what sounded the best to me? LOL, the Conrad Johnson in the other room.All that a... | |
| B&K ST 202+ One other thing, it seems you some-what are new to this game, Try a better cd/source, you wouldn't believe the difference that alone can and WILL make. Try Audio Refinement by YBA, I did and I have never heard a finer player under $3k, I am proud ... | |
| B&K ST 202+ I too would keep the B&K, and sadly, no offence intended, but PSB speakers are sorely inefficient, and after owning stratus golds, My dynaudio/vifa cerwin vega combination blows the PSB's away- in ALL respects, and they require far less power ... | |
| Active Crossover Recommendations I am presently running a B&K PT-5, it has an 80hz low pass output, and a 100hz high pass output, and dual mono outputs, it works very well. However, certain amplifiers can tax this units power supply, and hence, it's output abilities, the soun... | |
| Is my system bottlenecked? I agree not enough power, those speakers are not your typical 95dB+ speakers. | |
| Van Alstine oh and one other thing on the speaker selector knob it shows several selections, I know what the A, B, A+B is, but what are the others off to the left?thanks | |
| Van Alstine well actually my question refers to the sound, not the mechanics. I was wondering what to expect form this tube preamp. But then I guess I wasnt clear on that. I am presently using a B&K PT-5 and Proton D1200's.thanks | |
| Mono blocks-High current/low impedance...options? A_rt, I too am curious, if you are so wise, informed and scientific, how is it that you have no clue to Proton gear I use? And why haven't I ever heard of the stuff you sell/manufacture? LOL, HYPE, 90% of audio is hype, and the rest is truth, reve... | |
| Maggie 1.6 vs Von Schweikert VR 4 Hmm, what is nobility? Would it not be fair to say that the Chineese should be noble and do the right thing to begin with? if you have such a problem with this issue perhaps you should write your congressman/woman, and dictate world ethics to them... |