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In Reply to: RE: Finally made the move to Arizona posted by airtime on June 07, 2016 at 07:09:14
With a cash infusion and some "horse trading", you can have your cake and eat it too.
Klipsch "Cornwall" speakers require very little power and are truly full range. The 5 WPC or so full pentode SE 6BQ5/EL84 "finals" yield will make "bleeding ears" SPLs possibile. SS rectify the B+ and use "fixed" bias, to hold extraneous heat generation down.
Look for a used "Cornwall" pair on CL and/or FleaPay, as brand new Hope, AR, product is darned costly.
Eli D.
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Go to Arizona Hi Fi order a Grommes phi-26 pair with any good klipsch
cornwall, quartet, Forte I
plenty of sound little heat
"Klipsch "Cornwall" speakers require very little power and are truly full range."
I just got rid of my Cornwalls for lack of bass. Had them several months and really WANTED to like them. A perfect match for my little 4W/ch amps in all other respects. AFAIK, no commercial high-sensitivity speaker is really full range, although Klipschorns can come close.
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TK,
The OP has a SERIOUS thermal problem. If "Cornwalls", as you indicated, have bass extension issues, he needs to go to a multi-amped setup of some kind. The NAD SS amp the OP already owns should be satisfactory for bass duty. Let the OP DIY or commission a preamp/crossover/SE pentode main amp unit and add a bass commode.
Do you think an F 3 of 90 Hz., along with a 24 dB./octave Linkwitz-Riley configuration would "unload" the Klipsch or other suitable high efficiency speakers sufficiently?
Eli D.
I've yet to try a sub that blended well with any of my amps. I built a 24dB all-tube xover a few years ago as a last resort, but even that didn't cut it. The guy I bought the Cornwalls from had an expensive sub, but it sounded awful at any level at which it actually extended the bass. I've concluded that medium efficiency speakers and a larger amplifier (or headphones/tiny listening room) are the way to go with these pristine-sounding tube amps. Klipshorns are another possibility, but my livingroom is too small.
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Have you tried a SW driven by the speaker level I/Ps? Don't "daisy chain". Instead, simply connect the SW in parallel with the speakers already present. The SW's SS amp will pick up some of the tubed main amp's sonic signature. Adjust the SW's controls to fill in underneath the main speakers, where they are deficient.BTW, 16 AWG OFC zip cord is quite good enough for connecting the SW to the main amp. Remember, the SW's crossover presents a high impedance to the main amp below the "corner" freq. and above the "corner" freq. no load is present, making that high impedance too.
Eli D.
Edits: 06/07/16
The possibility of amplifying hum and noise from speaker-level signals would ordinarily turn me away from that. However, I've seen amplification from that level work OK in other applications. Yes, it's something to try when I get re-motivated on this subject. Thanks for the suggestion!
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