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| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Atmasphere,Thank you very much for that explanation.Best Regards,Gary | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. atmasphereThank you for this explanation as it gets to the heart of the matter. I just want to make sure I understand this correctly. What occurs to the sound of the speaker when the transformer saturates or begins to saturate? Is transformer s... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Lewm,For some reason, I did not ask the question of what resistor value is currently being used in the updated back plates with the Toroid ll when I discussed my upgrade. Dr. West did confirm what you disclosed that the Toroid ll will not saturat... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. To summarize what Lewm said above (that he and Will have tried in their speakers) :1. You can remove the brilliance control (or short the terminals) which is in series with the Toroid transformer (I removed the brilliance control and put in discre... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. LewmI will definitely try both of those configurations. On my list is to remove the resistor I used to replace the brilliance control and increase the resistance. Thank you for all the help.Best Regards,Gary | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Lewm, The resistors are in series (10 ohms). That is what I had in my circuit when I changed to the Toroid ll. I do not know what they are using in the new Toroid ll backplate circuit. I did exactly the same thing (you described) when I rep... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Lewm,Congrats to you and Will on the work you have done in bringing forth a significant improvement to the Soundlab speakers. I can attest that the transformer upgrade was a significant improvement over the prior toroid l transformer. It is not ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. One other thing. Have you ever tried the zero transformer? It sounds like it would help especially with low power amps that could have trouble driving the difficult load. The only thing that could be at issue is the lower frequencies that get m... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Lewm,Yes, I did ask many questions with Dr. West who was more than gracious with his time and help. He told me that a 300W SS amp was more than enough to drive the B1s. I am currently using a Crown K2 (350W @ 8ohms) on the B1s.I am trying to abs... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Also, since you seem to know Soundlabs, would there be an optimal frequency band for using the A1s from an impedance standpoint (e.g. minimize the wild impedance swings that the amp sees).Regards,Gary | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. lewm,Thanks for the response. I have an old set of Soundlab speakers (A1 and B1S) that I have been working on and upgrading. I am currently driving the system with SS amps (Innersound ESL 800) but would like to try a couple of tube amps I have l... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I realize this is an old thread but it has a lot of information related to the issues of using a tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I have a question related to the information provided. It seems the issue is the impedance variation from high... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I know this is an old thread but it has some very useful information. I have a question from reading the thread that I hope someone could answer. Assuming you have an electrostatic speaker that varies in impedance from 2 to 16 ohms (hypothetical... | |
| Dac, Preamp or Dac/Pre I guess this thread should have been titled what preamp or dac works well with the KEF LS50s. gwho | |
| Dac, Preamp or Dac/Pre I was aware of the P5. Is it out yet? In function it is similar to the Wyred and Peachtree. Would you know how it sounds compared to the others.gwho |