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| differences between tube and solid state designs Well first of all, there are different types of solid state amps, and different types of tube amps. Areas where different topologies produce different results mostly have to do with their distortion characteristics. For instance, tube amps soft-cl... | |
| Magnepans in a small room Dipoles are in my experience quite forgiving of small rooms and/or wierd room acoustics. I have a customer who used 3 foot wide by nearly 7 foot tall electrostats in a 12 by 12 foot room and was quite happy with them.You might try setting up your ... | |
| "Absolute best" used speaker for $8-10K Greetings Queanh74,Well I don't know what the "absolute best" is either but let me toss out something for you to consider.I presume that you plan to sit fairly far back to listen in that large room of yours. In that case, the reverberant field res... | |
| Low level listening In my experience electrostats and high efficiency speakers do the best job of giving you good clarity and detail at low volume levels. In my opinion a fullrange electrostat is probably the optimum, but also a fairly expensive approach. A high qual... | |
| Pre-amp recommendation: JC-1/Talon Raven C/ARC CD2 In your post you state that you're limiting your choices to what's available locally, and apparently you've already listed those choices. Since I don't have experience combining any of those preamps with the JC-1s, I don't have any comments about ... | |
| Do Bridged Accuphase Amps Sound Better? I once took two Accuphase 100-watt per channel stereo amps in trade (lucky me!). The owner used to run them in bridged mono mode for something like 400 watts per channel, as I recall. Anyway, I definitely thought they sounded better in unbridged m... | |
| Small speakers for retail store Joncourage,My apologies in advance for what may look like a thread hijack attempt, but that's not my intention. I have a stalker who sends me threatening e-mails when he decides that I'm being too commercial. He has e-mailed me three times about m... | |
| Small speakers for retail store Just for the record, I happen to be a Gallo dealer - so I appreciate the thumbs up they're getting here. However, I still think that for this particular application a pair of omni-type speakers makes more sense. It occurs to me that you might even... | |
| Daedalus DA-1: How Good Are They? Lou,Thanks for your replies to my questions. Best of luck with your venture!Duke | |
| Small speakers for retail store I would suggest omnidirectional speakers, as what you want is good tonal balance throughout the room with little consideration for imaging. Mirage comes to mind.The problem with conventional speakers listened to well off-axis or from far away is t... | |
| What so special about electro-static speaker NGjockey and Aktchi,My comments assumed large fullrange SoundLabs or possibly Quad 989 (or whatever its successor is). These big megastats have the diaphragm area to do deep bass.I have four customers who claim to have measured their full-sized So... | |
| speakers efficiency Bignerd, I don't really have any experience in pro-sound applications; I just have played around some (maybe too much) with prosound drivers. I have no specific knowledge of the effect of a crowd on room acoustics. I'd guess a crowd of people woul... | |
| What so special about electro-static speaker Andy2,Kal is right - Maggies aren't electrostats and a good electrostat will outperform the Maggies in some areas (including retrieval of low-level detail). But chances are neither will image as precisely as a good conventional speaker. I'm a deal... | |
| speakers efficiency Myraj points out that I wasn't clear in something I said.Let me try re-writing the second to last paragraph from my post above:"Now make sure that the manufacturer is really claiming 89 dB/1 watt EFFICIENCY. If it's a 4-ohm speaker, the manufactur... | |
| Is my ceiling too low? Shouldn't be a problem, but an effective solution would be to use speakers that have limited vertical dispersion. Tyler Acoustics' new "Pro Dyamics" series comes to mind - very intelligent configuration in my opinion. If I was designing a speaker ... |