richieb

Damn - three pages, mostly derogatory comments, to someone who has lost her spouse and is indeed asking far more than this model speaker sells for. Not sure why everyone gives such a damn. Should they sell for asking, great; if they don’t who cares, it’s no one’s business either way. I’m surprised Mods haven’t axed this early on, they’ve removed many topics for far less. Let it drop - there are much better things to do with your time.

— Alan Eaton 2a3 monoblocks —

Quiet amps (those with a very low noise floor) reign supreme with high efficiency horn speakers. Just because an amp is horn quiet doesn’t mean it’s a good listen. Unless there is an opportunity to A-B a particular amplifier one might assume a quiet amp, most any Class D, is truly a good sounding amp. I owned Hypex nc400 monoblocks and Benchmark ABH2 at the same time. Both being dead silent. There was no question (through my ears) the Benchmark was a much cleaner sounding amp, I believe the audiophile term is transparent. If you want a quiet, “transparent “ amp think Benchmark. Granted they are several times the price of many of the above mentioned brands but hey, we’re talkin’ quiet amps, not amps based on price. I also have several tube amps that are silent through big ol’ horns.

— much like Bonehead designed speakers forum jail ain’t that bad - it’s “okay”.

I’ll take ‘em - all.

I also owned a Torii IV and while it wasn’t the quietest tuber I’ve owned there was more “noise” going on than say my ST35 or QS Horn Monos both of which are dead silent through LS and Jubilees. But there was no overt hum as you are describing. The absolute forest of tubes on the Torii and enough background noise to annoy me led to selling it. Idontknow is right about the Kenny Russell ST35 though, it is an exceptionally nice piece.

— or Captain Beefheart? Tube amp builder extraordinaire.

- What an opportunity to begin a sub stack thread on motor oil. But to answer the 3M to 8M question - don’t do it. More than likely those pesky electrons will run out of steam around the 6M mark leaving you with no signal to the speakers.

- back and better than ever.

- How pedestrian

If you’re certified in a Gulfstream G700 I’ve got your plane. My pilot is currently unavailable. Sorry, leaving from MCI (KC) only. Takeoff is 0800 Saturday. Sharp.

This is the age of catering to and protecting those whose lives center around stirring the pot, spewing useless misinformation all while using the interweb as their indisputable source. No different here.

— “give me a minute. Checking Google”.

That’s there’s funny. Ain’t a speaker he’s not an expert on. I heard rumor that prior to the passing of James B Lansing he had the foresight to name his famous tweeter “001”. Coincidence, I think not -

Hehehe - he said “members”. The perfect description -