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- I've totally lost the plot....
OK, seeing as I'm such a bad influence at some of the threads here, I just thought I'd start a NEW thread where it just didn't matter wot the hell I said. (as long as it's PG-13 of course, but I guess soon enough even this thread will end up banished to the Man Cave, simply because of the company I keep. (I won't mention that Nav fella's name of course.)
So, occasionally, something might be on my mind, so I'll throw it out there to see wot happens.
Anyway, today, I finally had enough of all this mega power type amps and finally went back to my old trusty T-amp.
I thought, well, I've got pretty efficient speakers, then why not? (The T-Amp for those that don't know, is this (to put it technically) itsie bitsie thingie that puts out about 6 or 7 Watts at around 20% distortion, BUT, don't let that fool you. Measured today on my trusty ol' analyzer, that comes in at 90dB at 3 metres, and that's not too shoddy for wot it is. (I was exaggerating about the distortion of course, although to some of my audiophile friends, that's pro'ly wot it would sound like to them, but to put it simply, I don't care!)
The T-Amps (which I think are sort of a Digital thing, correct me if I'm wrong anybody,) are quite the cult thing that have been around for a while with some forever trying to miniaturise them into the most smallest case. (usually something the size of a cigarette packet, for those of you who still remember wot they are.)
Well, it's done. Just finished plugging it into my JBL 4313B's and using a tiny tiny little 12AU7 DIY preamp between my (only) 18 Bit AMC DAC (it's an oldie and a cheapie too) and running off my iMacs digital o/p playing .flacs.
Well, it works.
As I live in an apartment building (that is just totally useless acoustically, eg, you can hear everyone at all hours), it was pretty important that I could get above the background noise, but not make it bad for anyone else, and the T-Amp does the job just perfectly.
So, out go the Phase Linears, Crowns, Horns, J-Bins, Mid boxes, Subs and everything else..... (for now.)
Thinking of all the money I'm about to save on my power bill, I think I'll go and buy a holiday house on that island I've been dreaming about.
Anyway, I guess that means no more Jumbo Jets landing at 4am just to get the neighbours to shut up, or Spitfire Fighters doing overhead low level passes and no more Steam Trains pulling out of the station also at a most inappropriate hour of the night pranks. (the beauty of this building is that you can do these things and no one can tell from which apartment the noise is actually coming from.) If you lived here, it wouldn't take you long before you would do the same, so don't judge me too harshly. LoL.....
That's it. That's all that's on my mind at the moment. I'll just end up by saying, it was fun talking to myself, and I'm sure I'll have more to say to myself shortly......
So, occasionally, something might be on my mind, so I'll throw it out there to see wot happens.
Anyway, today, I finally had enough of all this mega power type amps and finally went back to my old trusty T-amp.
I thought, well, I've got pretty efficient speakers, then why not? (The T-Amp for those that don't know, is this (to put it technically) itsie bitsie thingie that puts out about 6 or 7 Watts at around 20% distortion, BUT, don't let that fool you. Measured today on my trusty ol' analyzer, that comes in at 90dB at 3 metres, and that's not too shoddy for wot it is. (I was exaggerating about the distortion of course, although to some of my audiophile friends, that's pro'ly wot it would sound like to them, but to put it simply, I don't care!)
The T-Amps (which I think are sort of a Digital thing, correct me if I'm wrong anybody,) are quite the cult thing that have been around for a while with some forever trying to miniaturise them into the most smallest case. (usually something the size of a cigarette packet, for those of you who still remember wot they are.)
Well, it's done. Just finished plugging it into my JBL 4313B's and using a tiny tiny little 12AU7 DIY preamp between my (only) 18 Bit AMC DAC (it's an oldie and a cheapie too) and running off my iMacs digital o/p playing .flacs.
Well, it works.
As I live in an apartment building (that is just totally useless acoustically, eg, you can hear everyone at all hours), it was pretty important that I could get above the background noise, but not make it bad for anyone else, and the T-Amp does the job just perfectly.
So, out go the Phase Linears, Crowns, Horns, J-Bins, Mid boxes, Subs and everything else..... (for now.)
Thinking of all the money I'm about to save on my power bill, I think I'll go and buy a holiday house on that island I've been dreaming about.
Anyway, I guess that means no more Jumbo Jets landing at 4am just to get the neighbours to shut up, or Spitfire Fighters doing overhead low level passes and no more Steam Trains pulling out of the station also at a most inappropriate hour of the night pranks. (the beauty of this building is that you can do these things and no one can tell from which apartment the noise is actually coming from.) If you lived here, it wouldn't take you long before you would do the same, so don't judge me too harshly. LoL.....
That's it. That's all that's on my mind at the moment. I'll just end up by saying, it was fun talking to myself, and I'm sure I'll have more to say to myself shortly......
