In Reply to: RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... posted by tyu on January 25, 2012 at 06:38:15:
Huh?
For years, the D-76 was a popular amp for driving Maggies. Using moderately powered tube amps on Maggies is nothing new. Whether that got all out of them that could be gotten probably depended on how loud you liked to listen.
People don't seem to understand that the difference between 100 and 1000 watts is, subjectively, only a doubling of loudness. People also don't seem to get that subjective loudness depends on short-term averages, *not* peaks, and that acoustical music has a 10-20 dB peak/average ratio.
A 10 watt amp will give you about 95 continuous decibels out of a pair of Maggies. That's going to sound pretty loud. It won't sound very good, though, because the peaks will be gone.
RMS figures don't tell you all that much about peak capability, or recovery from overload, or how audible clipping is. Amps with a given RMS power rating can in practice vary pretty widely.
As to talking oneself into and out of something, it seems to me that Wazoo has done quite the opposite -- he's trying it to see if he likes it. I'm sure he can decide for himself whether the sonic benefits of the amp are worth a bit of trouble and expense.
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- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - josh358 08:31:41 01/25/12 (74)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - Norman M 17:26:04 01/31/12 (0)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - morricab 06:27:17 01/26/12 (0)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - Medium Jim 15:11:18 01/25/12 (71)
- I really feel sorry for you guys who have never gotten the Maggie . . . - Alan G. 10:41:16 01/26/12 (10)
- for me, it's precisely the opposite ;-) - wazoo 18:40:45 01/26/12 (7)
- RE: for me, it's precisely the opposite ;-) - emsquare 05:59:09 02/03/12 (0)
- Okay - cool, just call me Argentina! I'll call you Hybrid man! (nt) - Alan G. 19:42:54 01/26/12 (2)
- I can live with Hybrid man - wazoo 19:58:54 01/26/12 (1)
- RE: "said my 'Hail Marys' and 'Our Fathers' in penance for the corruption" - JBen 21:00:36 01/26/12 (0)
- RE: for me, it's precisely the opposite ;-) - josh358 19:38:11 01/26/12 (2)
- mine had a slightly different title - wazoo 19:46:42 01/26/12 (1)
- RE: mine had a slightly different title - josh358 17:02:21 01/31/12 (0)
- RE: I really feel sorry for you guys who have never gotten the Maggie . . . - JBen 12:28:25 01/26/12 (0)
- RE: I really feel sorry for you guys who have never gotten the Maggie . . . - Medium Jim 10:55:20 01/26/12 (0)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - josh358 17:28:40 01/25/12 (59)
- none at all - wazoo 18:14:27 01/25/12 (10)
- bias points - Medium Jim 18:29:01 01/25/12 (9)
- I did ;-) - wazoo 18:41:28 01/25/12 (8)
- RE: I did ;-) - Medium Jim 19:31:47 01/25/12 (7)
- milspec is also interesting - wazoo 20:34:20 01/25/12 (6)
- Graded milspec - esande 20:49:56 01/26/12 (2)
- RE: Graded milspec - Medium Jim 21:29:35 01/26/12 (1)
- RE: Graded milspec - Medium Jim 11:56:01 01/27/12 (0)
- RE: milspec is also interesting - Medium Jim 20:50:10 01/25/12 (2)
- JAN 5751's - MaggiesAndCats 09:53:58 01/26/12 (1)
- RE: JAN 5751's - Medium Jim 10:05:32 01/26/12 (0)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - Medium Jim 18:10:53 01/25/12 (47)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - morricab 06:37:03 01/26/12 (43)
- maybe; maybe not - wazoo 15:04:30 01/27/12 (41)
- RE: maybe; maybe not - morricab 01:46:09 01/29/12 (38)
- very old information - wazoo 09:43:30 01/29/12 (32)
- RE: very old information - morricab 13:16:16 01/29/12 (27)
- no argument - no problem - wazoo 12:57:32 01/31/12 (18)
- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 04:42:32 02/01/12 (17)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 08:50:22 02/01/12 (16)
- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 02:46:31 02/02/12 (15)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 08:19:48 02/02/12 (14)
- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 01:28:00 02/03/12 (11)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 07:08:07 02/03/12 (10)
- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 07:20:51 02/04/12 (7)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 07:55:31 02/04/12 (6)
- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 09:35:47 02/08/12 (5)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 11:42:58 02/08/12 (4)
- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 15:21:49 02/09/12 (3)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 15:50:38 02/09/12 (2)
- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 02:19:35 02/10/12 (1)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 07:03:31 02/10/12 (0)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 08:02:44 02/03/12 (1)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 21:36:58 02/03/12 (0)
- Final Thoughts - Medium Jim 09:36:45 02/02/12 (1)
- RE: Final Thoughts - morricab 01:06:45 02/03/12 (0)
- RE: very old information - Medium Jim 14:38:05 01/29/12 (7)
- RE: very old information - morricab 01:18:06 01/30/12 (6)
- RE: very old information - Medium Jim 07:18:18 01/30/12 (5)
- RE: very old information - morricab 02:14:19 01/31/12 (4)
- RE: very old information - Medium Jim 16:19:03 01/31/12 (0)
- RE: very old information - Medium Jim 07:17:24 01/31/12 (2)
- RE: very old information - morricab 04:24:02 02/01/12 (1)
- RE: very old information - Medium Jim 07:21:35 02/01/12 (0)
- RE: very old information - Medium Jim 10:33:04 01/29/12 (3)
- then, you see my point... - wazoo 11:36:04 01/29/12 (2)
- RE: then, you see my point... - Medium Jim 12:06:24 01/29/12 (1)
- RE: then, you see my point... - morricab 13:20:52 01/29/12 (0)
- Not to stoke the fire... - Medium Jim 09:28:07 01/29/12 (4)
- RE: Not to stoke the fire... - morricab 02:18:59 01/31/12 (3)
- RE: Not to stoke the fire... - Medium Jim 07:13:10 01/31/12 (2)
- RE: Not to stoke the fire... - morricab 04:28:57 02/01/12 (1)
- NITA nt - Medium Jim 07:20:15 02/01/12 (0)
- RE: maybe; maybe not - 66mgb 16:50:40 01/27/12 (1)
- not what I meant (but one never really knows ;-) - wazoo 18:02:55 01/27/12 (0)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - Medium Jim 07:30:54 01/26/12 (0)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - josh358 18:31:50 01/25/12 (2)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - ahendler 19:20:02 01/25/12 (1)
- RE: Are you *really* paying attention, or... - Medium Jim 19:47:01 01/25/12 (0)