|
|
Post by leonski on Sept 30, 2021 21:05:34 GMT -5
Polk calls the RTI A7 in at 89db sensitivity. 100 watts get to 109db which is LOUD enough to get evicted.....
I'd love to hear 'em with a good TUBE amp of 70 or so a side.........You KNOW what amp I'm thinking of!
In a room approproate to the speaker, that's ALL you'd need.....
|
|
KeithL
Administrator 
Posts: 10,256
|
Post by KeithL on Oct 1, 2021 9:04:45 GMT -5
Just a note here....
A preamp is not, and should not be, a tone control...
If all someone wants is more bass... the PT-100 DOES have an actual Bass control... which CAN be turned up.
That being said? VERY unlikely the amp can't provide enough power. In some cases of very bad speaker loads it maybe true, but for the majority? No. Yeah, he's just not getting the sound out of the PT100 that he wants; or more likely is used to (bass heavy). This is perfectly fine and I misunderstood his 'lean' comment as applying to the amp running out of gas (for his "power hungry" speakers) when I believe he is/was just describing the way the PT100 sounds. My bad. Certainly try other pre-amps, as there are billions out there. Send the PT100 back and give Schiit a try. |
|
|
|
Post by leonski on Oct 1, 2021 17:13:47 GMT -5
Mid-Fi on UP went thru a phase for a long time where the 'Tone Control' was no longer offered. My 1980s NAD1700 had triple turnover bass and treble. My current P5 also has bass and treble....but fairly 'wide' action......
Best used sparingly, I think, tone controls are a good addition. But for other purposes, like a messed up room or simply inadequate speaker output at one end or the other? Wrong solution......
I went without tone controls of any kind for 15 or 20 years.
OP said something about 'getting speakers to thump'.....which tells me a LOT about priorities and values. First time I heard peak-free and DEEP bass....like Pipe Organ Deep, I was impressed and had to pop my ears.....
The Polk speaker in question is by no means 'power hungry'......
|
|
|
|
Post by jslim49 on Oct 23, 2021 11:00:31 GMT -5
Up Date Ive aquired a preamp that ive always wanted and paid a good price for it . The Sonicfrontier SFL-1 and just installed a Mullard 6201 tube . Installed some magic between my CD Transport and the Sonicfrontier to tame it . A little old school mixed with new school never hurts . This is how you get a two channel hifi system to thump .
|
|
|
|
Post by leonski on Oct 23, 2021 11:34:06 GMT -5
Happy Tube Rolling!
Some of those NOS tubes can cost a BUNDLE so be careful you don't MELT your credit card....
What exactly needed 'taming'?
|
|
|
|
Post by audiobill on Oct 23, 2021 17:12:23 GMT -5
Up Date Ive aquired a preamp that ive always wanted and paid a good price for it . The Sonicfrontier SFL-1 and just installed a Mullard 6201 tube . Installed some magic between my CD Transport and the Sonicfrontier to tame it . A little old school mixed with new school never hurts . This is how you get a two channel hifi system to thump . If your system is thumping, better get it fixed. |
|
|
|
Post by 405x5 on Oct 23, 2021 18:42:36 GMT -5
Up Date Ive aquired a preamp that ive always wanted and paid a good price for it . The Sonicfrontier SFL-1 and just installed a Mullard 6201 tube . Installed some magic between my CD Transport and the Sonicfrontier to tame it . A little old school mixed with new school never hurts . This is how you get a two channel hifi system to thump . If your system is thumping, better get it fixed. Truer words never spoken |
|
|
|
Post by leonski on Oct 24, 2021 0:33:26 GMT -5
Let him 'thump' away. No reason to try to convince him otherwise. He'll blow up a speaker to over stress an amplifier and maybe learn.
Or go to a place with absolutley Superior Sound and have a 'moment'.......
You were like this once and I was too.......Now just how LOUD will those Fisher speakers go?
|
|
