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| Who Were Your Mentors I was introduced to audio by my dorm mates at Lehigh University which led to a Dynaco/ Acoustic Research graduation present from my parents. I moved to Philadelphia for graduate school where I met Bud Fried(IMF & Fried speakers) at his offices... | |
| Tube or R-2R DAC for Tube System I've had very good results with a very rare DAC, a GeorgeMark Audio from the early 2100s. It's a tube gain stage with volume control and an MSB DAC board built in with tube output stage. I drive it with Cambridge CDX drive running into two Monarch... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard Two songs off the top of my head:1. The First Time - a love song hit in the 70s which was really a love song written in the 50s by a British man and great song writer, Ewan McCall for his life long partner Peggy Seegar, Pete's half sister.2. And T... | |
| Sibilance I noted the comment blaming it on speaker response in the 3 kHz area. That's often near the crossover to tweeters. And crossovers can be crazy. A speaker can be flat in the crossover region but if the transfer function(shape of the roll offs at cr... | |
| Why so many tubes? For non output tubes sometimes a gain tube is followed by a cathode follower which is sort of an electronic transformer to lower the output impedance of a gain tube so it drives the next gain tube better. Goof examples are 1970s and 1980s Audio re... | |
| Monitor suggestions? The Wells amp specs damping factor at 200. Assuming that's in the bass(sometimes it's spec'd at higher frequencies) that's way more than enough to control the bass of any speaker. I assume you don't have long lengths of thin speaker cable then the... | |
| Class A into Class AB Class A/AB and class AB are the same thing. At lower powers the amp is class A and at higher power class B. How much class A depends on the amount of bias and can range from less that a watt to lots of watts which is rare.But even a low efficiency... | |
| Speaker Recommendation up to 70k For half your cost I'd advise looking into Arion Audio Apollo speakers, a 2 way almost full range Air Motion Transformer system line source. The Top end goes down to 125 Hz crossing over electronically to 2 to 4 subs, each with 2 10 inch drivers. ... | |
| Putting an end to the audio cable debate! Part 1 There's never an end to any audio category debate, much less to audio cables. These are the kind of debates that will still be going on after the universe explodes. | |
| You can go home again I used to work at a store that sold the old L100s and only carried Dynaco A25s at a super low price to draw customers. If I sold the A25s I made no money. However the A25s were so much better than the L100s it was sick. | |
| Speaker impedance patterns - how to read them? Basically the frequency response of an amp with a low damping factor(high output impedance) will be affected by the peaks and dips of the speaker. The amp even if it's flat into a test resistor will not be flat into a reactive speaker load. The am... | |
| Are most tube preamps ‘ultra linear’? Not all preamps are one tube, single ended. Some use two tube and are push/pull but all are still class A. The low power of a preamp is imple to make class A.Single ended amps are not so obviously the purest thing around. They are low power with l... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? Musicality is a fine alternative but then you shouldn't use terms like high fidelity. Fidelity implies truth in reproduction and then good recordings will be musical and bad recordings will sound lousy. | |
| Looking for Speaker Input Let me throw an alternative into the discussion. I was shocked but I found really good anti vibration feet an anything can make a huge difference. They worked under every piece of electronics I put them especially under my CD drive(it was a brand ... | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? I love bass but I can't stand bloated mid bass. It makes sound unlistenable for me. I'd rather miss the bass. But what I value most in sound is clean attack and even more clean decay at all frequencies. Plus I need dynamic linearity, accurate leve... |