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| 20 Vintage Amps That Prove They Really Don’t Make Them Like They Used To All these amps were excellent designs for their days but many of them had negatives too. Parts are way better today(except possibly NOS tubes) and power supplies which are the true heart of an amplifier are way stronger today. Plus I'd never get n... | |
| Can AI Build a speaker? NO! I had a friend I saw design speakers using computers. I asked him how done they were before listening. He said 95%. His speakers were good and I saw this process. But behind his use of the computer was 40 years of designing and listening and k... | |
| Top DYI Speaker Options NOGAPS suggestions are top notch. The Linkwitz is great. The others offer designs from lower cost to almost ultimate. Troels kits don't offer cabinets but there is a German site listed in some of his designs that offer CNC flat packs for some of h... | |
| Class of operation for Tube Power Amps If a mono tube amp has just one tube or a stereo tube amp has just 2 tubes it isn't likely to be class a, it is absolutely class A. There is no other choice due to single ended circuit topology. Other wise it's not absolute but the odds are any p... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass The shortness of the piano tone is the point. Stopping the overhang in the bass is a major problem for most speakers and the piano is a great test for this. | |
| Are you operating in the correct SPL window for high-fidelity listening? I basically agree but also believe the linearity of level changes matters. Compression, even subtle compression causes many of us to listen at higher levels to compensate. And compression matters at all levels even the lowest levels. | |
| Pass Labs XA-25 vs XA-30.8 amplifier The Pass class A amps are not pure class A. They are class A up to the rated power but then they go into AB for a lot more power. The XA-25 will put out a clean 75 watts easily. But except for super short peaks the amp will stay well below its cla... | |
| Best amplification for Magico S3 newer version on your experience The S3s are a difficult load. For a relatively cheap amp I'd try the Schiit Tyr mono blocks. They have a huge power supply for the money using chokes(which produce super smooth current) needed for the large current draw for the S3 load. Power supp... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Actually while the Klipsch is called a corner horn that only means it was designed to fit in a corner because the walls reinforce the bass but just like putting any speaker in a corner. The corner doesn't really act as an extension of the horn. A ... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Actually John Wright designed the IMF transmission lines that Bud was initially involved with. He was more involved with the Fried speakers although it's not clear to me how much. | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers guscreek; actually your DCMs are not transmission lines. It's a common mistake. Infinity did it on the 2000 model. They are stuffed ports, also known a variovents. It is a good way to get tight bass. The best known example was probably the best se... | |
| ??? WHY WHY WHY ??? Class A vs Everything Else Class A has positive attributes but you do give up stuff like high power often needed by some speakers and of course there's the heat. Like the real world it's different compromises which vary with your taste in sound and your system. By the way ... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Horns and transmission lines are completely different. Horns are a way to maximize the efficiency of a driver. A transmission line is a way to dissipate the back wave of a driver with minimal reflection back to the driver and they tend to be ineff... | |
| Subjective vs. objective? Or subjective and objective? II didn't listen to the video, partly because I didn't have the time but mainly because it's a subject that has been part of my hobby for six decades and have seriously thought about it ever since. Plus I have had friends who were designers and wh... | |
| Favorite Newly Discovered Female Vocalist Sandy Denny Bonnie Koloc June Tabor Priscilla Herdman Joan Baez Judy Collins There's a ton of them and too many are not nearly known enough. |