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| Any heard of Porcupine Tree? Been using Voyage 34 as a reference for years. The original vinyl has mind-blowing bass. The new vinyl reissue is not bad.I've not seen Stupid Dream or Lightbulb Sun on LP but I have everything else. I tuned into them about 1991.When they were in ... | |
| B&W 802D vs Wilson WATT Puppy The WP7 has a 2KHz trap to deal with a resonance, resulting in an impedance dip at that frequency. As you might imagine, transistor amps tend to heat that trap in the crossover rather nicely, where in a tube amp the filter does its job rather well... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight:Low "The Great Destroyer" (their latest is also their best) Porcupine Tree "Deadwing" (Dude!)the Gorillas "Demon Days"Thomas Tallis Scholars "Palestrina Masses Missa Benedicta Es" (Gimell Records) - simply the best series of Palestrina Mas... | |
| B&W 802D vs Wilson WATT Puppy The 802D employs a pair of 8 ohm woofers in parallel for an impedance of 4 ohms (roughly) in the range of the woofer (bass) region. The rest of the speaker is nominally 8 ohms. While you might think that a tube amplifier playing on this speaker is... | |
| B&W 802D vs Wilson WATT Puppy An additional thing to consider- B&Ws are not tube friendly- the 802 in particular will not reproduce bass properly with a tube amp due to the impedance relationship between the amp and speaker in the woofer region.Wilson, OTOH, have no proble... | |
| The most placement forgiving planar speaker? Sound Labs are indeed the most forgiving planar speaker of room placement due to their curved design. However I wanted to mention that getting bass out of them as a lot more to do with amplifier choice then room placement (as long as a few simple ... | |
| Tube power vs Solid state power, how much is enoug 93 db is a medium efficiency, not high. High would be over 100db. Plus you have to factor something else when you use the word 'senstivity'. It is NOT the same as efficiency.The Senstivity spec is 2.83 volts measured at the speaker terminal and th... | |
| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? Not at all. Horns, like cone speakers, come in a variety of performance capabilities. IOW, some work very well, are highly revealing and others pretty much suck at the same task- just like cone or for that matter planar speakers. It would be throw... | |
| Sonics of Soundlabs Time for my 2 cents again: Never attempt to audition a Sound Lab with transistor amps! You will come away with the mistaken impression that the speaker is harsh and has no bass. This is not the fault of the amplifier so much as it is bad physics t... | |
| Tube power vs Solid state power, how much is enoug My 2 cents (like anybody asked...)?Trying to get disparate amplifier technologies to get along in the same system is challenging to say the least. You'll need some sort of electronic crossover, which is an additional (and audible) building block, ... | |
| High impedance Speakers I have advocated high impedance speakers for a long time, not just for my own activities, but for the fact that any tube amplifier with a high impedance tap on the output transformer will perform noticably better with a high impedance speaker (in ... | |
| Sonics of Soundlabs Keep in mind that the room dimension issues above apply to all speakers, not just Sound Labs. I have found that having the capability is more convincing regardless of the size of the room.Also keep in mind that to drive Sound Labs you must use a t... | |
| Causes of long term listening fatigue? You are correct- the reason is that our ear/brain systems are tuned to accept odd-ordered harmonic content as *the* loudness cue (read: Listener fatigue) in anything we hear. Anything that causes an emphasis to those harmonics results in listener ... | |
| Attention Minneapolis Audiophiles We've got speakers, amps, everything you need. When you are ready to make your comparison, let me know. If you want to hear what the BAT and Aesthetix stuff does beside the MP-3, I am game for that too. | |
| Causes of long term listening fatigue? LF is caused by odd-ordered harmonic content in the signal, usually harmonics of the 9th order and beyond. These harmonics are emphasized by the use of negative feedback in amplifiers and by non-linearities in transistors (and to a lesser degree b... |