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My Sony Bravia has a line out for audio, so this makes a nice home for my 3wpch magnavox el84 amp and the utah 2a's. Vocals are very nice which is always helpful with TV. Wife is happy as the prior speakers there had a no grills and mismatched woofers! Sorry about the grainy picture..this ipad camera is handy but no flash!
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
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I've got the same little Mag amp. Any recommended changes to the circuit you can suggest? I've recapped it and changed out the electrolytics. Use it for my computer desk top system. Sounds great.
I have heard that they are very fun to tube roll with as the effects are quite noticeable between different tube models. I used mine at the computer for awhile as well and loved the near field effect!
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
Those look great! any obious holes in the frequency response curve? Utah speakers usually have a bit of mid-bass warmth compared with, say Advent or AR, which is sometimes nice. The others tend to be a bit dry.
Once I corrected the polarity issue with the tweeter replacement, they sounded fine. Obviously they have no low bass, but for TV vocals they are fine. The sony has terrible audio from its own speakers, but the line out signal seems good. Voices are more natural and less boomy now. Also, vary pleasant with the cable music stations. This room has pretty bad acoustics, so we watch movies and have the fancier 5.1 system in the living room.
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
You could add one of the readily available 10 inch subs, and have a great 3-piece setup, far better than the modern small-woofer speakers commonly used nowadays. Or, you could DIY a small sub.
Yup, that.s a thought I had as well.
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
I was using an M&K that I bought from a thrift store for around $30. It broke. I am planning to try and fix it, but in the meantime, I found a 10" down-firing sub, which looked very good but I can't remember the name. I looked it up. It used to be sold by Audio Advisor and had decent specks. It sounds great with my Spendors. My point is that with the popularity of subwoofers in home theater system, it is one of the few useful things you can find easily at the thrift stores. I see them all the time. I would have a room full of them if I bought every good one that I saw.
Alternatively, Part Express has some very cool parts to put together a subwoofer system. They have them in all price ranges.
Dave
The gain from the Sony line out circuit is strong. Should I run a direct feed to a powered sub from the line out and bypass the magnavox? The magnavox only has L and R, of course. I have a separate in line volume pot for the magnavox as the sony seems not to be able to control the line out volume.
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
I run my subwoofer from the pre-out of my preamp. I prefer not to put anything between the main amp and speakers. I run the speakers full range and roll in the sub. if you plan to cross high, you might get better integration running from the power amp speaker outs. So it depends on you implementation.
Dave
So Dave,
If I understand, I can split my RCA line out signal from the tv and feed the sub and the magnavox tube amp/ front speakers at the same time. then I set the sub hz level and volume. However, I have to adjust sub volume every time I adjust front speaker volume?
Thanks
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
Does you TV control the volume? If you split the signal out to the sub before the volume control the volume of the subwoofer will not go up and down with you main speakers.
Dave
I did as you suggested and split the signal, after my in line volume pot. Sub is rolled in at about 80hz, still playing with that...adds a lot to TV shows.
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
Looks like you've got it!
Dave
No, tv does not control audio out volume. However, Could i put the splitter after the inline volume contol?
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
Looks Great - compact and clean!
well done
Happy Listening
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