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In Reply to: RE: MQ-70 driver for 4 pairs 300B PP?? posted by drlowmu on April 23, 2016 at 10:38:07
I think the choice of speakers is a great matter of taste. I don't care for high efficiency speakers and whenever I mention it, the response is often that I haven't heard the good ones. I've heard horns, Altecs, Lowthers, and more. I been to the Serious Stereo room at RMAF & VSAC several times over the years. They don't sound natural to me. Sorry to be divergent. No offense intended. Just my opinion and it drives my amplifier building choices.
John
De gustibus non est disputandum
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There is also a limit to achievable speaker efficiency. I have yet to see anything within an order of magnitude of what is required for delivering adequate SPL's with these wee SE amps( or even not-so-wee)...:)
So far, nothing has sounded so good to me as a Class A, PP amp operating with adequate headroom. The current system runs to nearly 100W/side and is tri-amped around a Rane AC23B crossover. Keeping the amps out of clipping is worth quite a bit to me...LOL
cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
No problem. I have actually heard what you heard.But I can tell you this, which you seem to have missed - you do NOT always get to hear things at a show like RMAF as best as it would be when set up leisurely at home !! I, just like you, have often been disappointed at RMAF shows, but that is seldom the case with similar equipment set up leisurely at my home.
Its a major job for a very small outfit to do a display room, and "strut their stuff", after transporting their gear over several states, getting little sleep, and having FAR TOO LITTLE time to adjust the speakers, and set up the components to the hotel room and a new environment !!
Good audio decisions take time and experience. It has taken me a decade ( ten years !! ) to figure-out how nicely a two stage DC SET amp I DIY construct can play.
I can tell you, I am generally pleased with what I am getting, but - not fully sold yet on A7 VOTTs, because my system is not quite done. I am still working on multiple fronts, such as speaker mass loading, crossover tweaking, and amplifier film cap tweaking. Within two months I will have a better handle. Yeah, its tough. Also fun, when it approaches perfection.
I so far have concluded "ALTEC tells the truth", and as such, it is incredibly intolerant of even the most minor mistakes in set up. Its taking " everything I know ", truly all my audio experience, to get it to sound the way I would want it to play. A challenge - for sure, but that is what makes it fun also.
'Have a nice journey for yourself !!
Jeff Medwin
Edits: 04/23/16
Jeff, I agree with almost all that you write, but bump on the fact that its always about 'you'.
Subjectivity is after all no more than subjective.
Shane
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