Srinath

IOM is one of those strange race tracks. Joey Dunlop did very well into his late 40's, and at the same time, younger riders don't neccesarily do well. Like Tour de France, when you have the strength you don't have the smarts, and when you have the smarts, you need the illegal dope. But since there is a motorcycle instead of a bicycle, you don't need the dope. Cool. Srinath.

That's the "Gas, Phone, food, lodging" highway sign from the days of old - like I dunno 1999. Cool. Srinath.

What model rotel separates ? I've been sort of confounded by rotel's popularity. I've never heard any rotel gear I loved. I liked the CD player something 955 or 950 or something, but its display conked out. Of course I've only heard 3-4 of them. Almost no receivers of old, oooo I have a Martel tube receiver (old rotel) that needs repair. Maybe it will be good. They all look impressive inside, and on paper, but don't sound to my liking. Worse yet, rotel also owns B&W and I'm truly impressed with those, except with the plate amps. Somehow I have a ASW3000 plate amp that when you wave your hand near one opamp, it will hum worse. It has a faint but audible hum, and get your finger near it and it is louder. I think they don't have a ground to it. Bad design. Cool. Srinath.

My story nearly mimicks this, nearly, with the differences being, 1 pair of minty Khorns, 1 pair of incomplete jamborees, with some crackhead options to finish them all scattered about, plus about 9 full size F150 truck and cabin (this is a 6 passenger cabin mind you 97 spec with the 3 doors) full of random audio all for close to this price. Most of it didn't make to my either house without atleast minor scars. I have also come into motorcycle scores of this scale before. Sorry pics have to come later, too much scattered all over to make sense. Cool. Srinath.

They are 13 inch ? something funky about that, the only part that's Klipsch could be that sticker on the back, and he has only 2 but has 4 in the sale ? Odd, very odd. Cool. Srinath.

I got a 616 too recently. New HDMI board ??? is this one of em DTS bomb ones - like the 805. Would it work without HDMI when HDMI dies ??? cos I never tested mine without HDMI. Cool. Srinath.

I get it, rather I'll explain it better ... or something. Switching power supply of the iNuke I wouldn't say is best for the sub, but it may be fine - never tried it. But I nuke is class D. Awesome IMHO, not just for a sub, for nearly any speaker, very balanced and very much the best of old and new. The better option IMHO is a TAS5630 (which is class D) based amplifier, fed by a traditional transformer with enough Voltamps to keep the amp and the speakers happy. I've run the TAS5630 on a tiny PS and come away impressed. Cool. Srinath.

Oh, well, that's how much I know electronics. LOL, But a TAS5630 based amp would be good, and powered with regular transformer, not switching PS. Cool. Srinath.

I'm sorta up the creek with just this twig anyway, these are Jamboree's with a 15 set that isn't really going to go high enough to let me run it as a 2 way. The problem is the MD142 is only 93 db spl, and doesn't like much under 600 or so If I recall. 2405's are 6k and up, so I may have to fill the middle with the gauss cetec driver and - well, I got no horn for it at the moment. Cool. Srinath.

I'm not sure what the BASH's topography is, but iNukes are switching amps. I can hear it, I don't exactly like those, but in a sub you probably couldn't hear it. However, for a sub, you are better off with a class D power house. Cool. Srinath.

That VTX1800 is awesome, what you need help with ??? valve adjustment ??? oil change ? Tires ??? brakes ??? carbs ? you name it. Cool. Srinath.

I got some really good magic lying about 2405, Dynaudio, T35 etc etc as well as others. I am not committing to anything yet. How about I put something on a removable type fitting and so then if a 402 were to turn up - and trust me, things turn up, they do in my life. I'll definitely give it a whirl. Cool. Srinath.

The SX3900 uses output transistors MJL1302 and MJL3281. I suspect that is the same as what is used in carver's higher voltage section in an M1.0. Which means you're in a bit of luck, lots and lots and lots of BPC kenwood power amps - KM106, 107, 208, all sorts of these anything with a KM is likely to be the same. However the question is - does the kenwood have the voltage of the pioneer and the current in its power supply - to determine if it will deliver power, as well as what the pre-driver and driver transistors are - if it will deliver the sonics. Now the corresponding KC kenwoods would have some control over the sonics too. So you're probably going to have to find that as well. Cool. Srinath.

In 1992 with literally the first $$$ I made, I walked into a circuit city in Reading PA and plonked down $450 for a "state of the art" sony box system - isn't that an oxy moron right there. I had it till 2010-11 too thankfully didn't die, worked well, remote and everything, but man did I start feeling stupid once I found out what else was there and how I could have scored a SX1980 @ a goodwill in 92 for 1/10 that (OK OK just a joke). These places are designed to get your $$$ and provide you with nothing. That way, you are a repeat customer. Cool. Srinath.

Hey man, I think you made the difference. Best Buy clowns are clueless. Big corporations like BB have no room for interest or passion or anything remotely like that. They will think nothing of making a rubber limbed programming genius stock shelves and a well muscled guy write code. I can buy crap @ goodwill and in about 5-6 tries beat their system in their own room easy, with Panasonic thruster quality speakers no less. Cool. Srinath.

He he, I traded away a SX3900 with a weird tuner problem for a RX-V1 ~5 yrs ago, turned around and sold the RX-V1 for 375. And I got another RX-V1 for 150 if I recall right on the heels of that which I still own. No, actually I flipped that one too, and got one ~3yrs ago on a WA DC area run. Anyway, Nak PA 7 II is what I have if I recall, I didn't think a Khorn needed that. BTW, the SX3900 is very similar to quite a few of the early digital era. I'd look into what else had the same power amp chips and that would widen your search area. Realistic STA 2200/2300 perhaps ??? or something else. Pioneer = 3X the price easy. You may buy 2X the quality in a Toshiba which is a full on copy of the pioneer but no one cares for a toshiba. Anyway, to someone's earlier point, I feel the earlier DSP A1 and the 3090 had better pre/processing section, the later V1, Z1 and Z9 had better power amp section IMHO. I've been inside these, the Z9 power amps are more accurate but the DSP3090's sound better (sorta like tubes sound better) DSP 3090 as a pre and Z9 or the adcom or eaw or whatever for the power amp could be something I might do some point in future. Cool. Srinath.

Take the thing apart so the circuit board is exposed, and connect source and speaker to it. Oh, look for burnt parts and isolate that, and I guess you've eliminated those. Wait till the noises come. Spray various parts with cold air from those compressed air cans for dusting starting with parts bolted to heat sinks. Cool. Srinath.

It almost depends on the speakers its driving I'd say. My carver silver 7 mono's fell apart driving B&W 802 matrixes, but on a Carver amazing and a Infinity kappa 9 set, they were stellar. I don't know what is any logical conclusion anyone can come to from any of this. Nak PA7 driving NS1000, stellar, driving a B&W801 - lacking bass. Proceed amp 5, driving any thing else - ordinary, driving the carver amazings = awesome. I dunno how to explain it, some things just work and are just easier and just fall into place better. The reason I have a whole slew of crap, hoping something can make something else far far better. He he, that's my excuse. Cool. Srinath.

I sort of agree, but I've never heard Khorns, now see in 1949 when they are conceived and built, there was only 3 watt tube amps, in mono. LOL. Of course all music was analog. Maybe the detail was missing then too. The "detail" most people have in mind these days is usually achieved by a lower noise floor. I'll run mine on everything from AVR's to dedicated 2 ch to vintage high power high current amps and post back over the next few years. Cool. Srinath.

TAS5630 - new Class D. Awesome, I cant find off the shelf models with the TAS5630 per say, but I have one I ran off a 200 watt old school printer power supply and man doesn't it have the power and sound clean as hell. I'm not sure it can run a hard load (carver Amazing) or one that needs current (B&W) yet cos it needs to be few 600 or so VA before you can determine that. Not the 200 I was giving it. LOL, like I was gonna do, run my NS1000's off the Nak PA 7 out of the fronts off my Emotiva UMC-1. PA7 on paper is rather unimpressive, 200 watts, but an NS1000 absolutely comes to life with that thing. It ran my 802's fine too, but a few other amps did better. My Proceed 5 did better on the carver amazing than most others too, ofcourse the master for the Amazing was the silver 7 mono's (sadly sold) followed by TFM 45. Cool. Srinath.

Oh, apparently sumo wrestlers don't have most of the health problems associated with 400 lb+ 5'5" people. They have no visceral fat, and their routine of High intensity training in fasted state then binge eating and going to sleep makes for no visceral fat. I dunno, I don't have the time, space or the equipment right now to train with any intensity other than walking around the parking lot. I'll try doing to with big *** dumbells and see if that does something. Cool. Srinath.

For a Khorn or anything in the 100+ SPL range do we really need 500w ?? Also quality IMHO better than quantity. You need current and damping factor and a few other parameters. The ones with better numbers there obviously outperform the others. Cool. Srinath.

I almost believe the opposite. But I should say, I've not been inside any amp made after ~2009 or so. But the Onkyo 805 (Latest amp I worked on) was impressive in 2ch IMHO. The Z9 in pure direct also pretty good, I dunno depends on quality of both sides of course, but probably amps exist better than the 805/Z9 500 X 2 - yikes. How can anything compare to that ? Cool. Srinath.

I've not heard my Khorns yet, but my B&W 802 used to do this. That was because low end grunt takes current. And a high damping factor to sound great up high. Plain and simple, that is one reason why amps like a Pioneer sx1250 sound so great down low, but start to sound slow and not sharp up high. High current and not enough damping factor. Cool. Srinath.

Some AVR's will drop kick a lot of dedicated amps to the back of the lot easy. Cool. Srinath.