Well spotted Iain, I didn't notice my spell checker alter my post.Originally Posted by Iain Sinclair
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Well spotted Iain, I didn't notice my spell checker alter my post.
Bet you don't know what a criterium is without looking it up ?
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A place where criters live?Well spotted Iain, I didn't notice my spell checker alter my post.
Bet you don't know what a criterium is without looking it up ?
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Well having just heard Marco's bad news, it's perhaps not the best time to elaborate this thread. However Marco described his amp as 60w, whereas I suspect that if fed a continuous duty signal at high level, such as I use to test my amps, then it would struggle to sustain 30w. This is only my estimation based on his description of the components.
Marco said he listened at a very high level on sp100's. A combination of a knowledge of electronic circuit modeling, and experience with that type of amp and those speakers suggest that under those operating conditions, clipping is unavoidable.
This is reinforced by Marco's suggestion that to his ears, his amp sounds better than any other amp he has heard, particularly ss ones, and is exceptionally "musical".
Conclusion: His amp is almost certainly clipping and he likes the effect so much that he thinks its better than anything else he's heard.
For my purposes, therefore his ears are unsatisfactory, although I accept he is very attached to them.
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(did you look it up ?)
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Bollocks, JC! I suggest you come and listen before writing such ill-informed nonsense. You haven't heard my system so you don't have a clue what you're talking about, amigo! Stick to your little computer speakers and give me peace
What "bad news"? Ashley's bottling out of our meeting yet again? It was highly predictable!
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Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Marco,what is the quoted sensitivity of the Spendors?
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90db, mate, and an easy 8ohms load. The Yaqin drives them to serious levels, believe me, and there is no (audible) clipping!
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Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Ok Marco I'll listen to them, just to please you.
I thought you were looking forward to going to AVI ? what happened ?
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