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In Reply to: Re: Cart BEFORE the Horse? How to get it right? posted by Francois G on August 25, 2004 at 06:23:40:
Hi there,Its not such an easy thing, to find an amp that mates well with your speakers. But I think the correct sequence is to select the speaker first, then try out different amps.
In the late 1970's I used FMI or Fulton loudspeakers and I was the Southern California rep for the firm. I tried out a whole succession of amps, tube and solid state, and never was satisfied. Was it the speaker or the amp?? I always thought .......it was the amp.
I never sold off my Fulton speakers, but it wasn't until January of 2004 when a buddy with similar speakers bought some Paoli 60M's with GE 6550's from eBay, that we both figured it all out. We were both "blown away" with what we heard. Sure, we had owned Paoli 60M's before, but always with GE 8417's as output tubes. After many years of "searching", almost three decades, we finally found the right amp and the right output tube.
This put my all-RCA field coil two way horn system, and ALL the zero NFB amps I had designed and built "on hold" and out of the picture. Anyone interested in up to six RCA Ubangie ( direct radiating - two 15's ) bass horns??
Since March 2004, I looked up the 1975 patent on the Paoli amp and discovered in that patent disclosure that the designers used FMI speakers and specifically compensated the amplifier's design to DRIVE heavily inductive real-world speaker loads, such as the FMI J-Modular. Well, using all I had learned about amp design, I have ( almost ) finished an improved Paoli 60M version, mostly improvements in the power supply, to even better drive my load. So, it has taken me many years of building to get where I want to be.
Fumbling along in audio as I have for many years, I can only offer others the general advice of finding a speaker you like, ( and trust in ), first. Then the amplifier search begins.
Now, in 2004, I am more excited than ever about audio because I know I have found an equipment solution that pleases ME, and I am tickled pink. YMMV. Good luck and best wishes.
Jeff Medwin
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