"Ear fatigue sets in after only an hour or so of medium level listening!" ...

Posted by andyr (M) on September 22, 2010 at 01:33:21

In Reply to: RE: "8ga bare wire - a little brighter in the 1.6s"??? posted by The peleton on September 22, 2010 at 00:50:04:

That is absolutely no good at all, mate. I can listen to my true-ribbon Maggies for hours at a time with absolutely no fatigue ... unfortunately, though, I rarely get many consecutive hours of uninterrupted listening time!! :-((

Now, some people love the sound of the 1.6 and some people don't - just like with true-ribbon Maggies. :-)) From what you've said, I suggest that until you get "stuck into them" (ie. "work on the guts"), you need to attenuate the QR with a resistor.

Of course, if you change amps this "brightness" (read "harsh"! :-)) ) might go away but, in the meantime, you need to do something.

You appear to have tried a stock Magnepan sand-cast resistor (which you said didn't sound too good! :-)) ). You didn't say what value this was but I suggest you do what neo suggested - ie. buy some pairs of 12w Mills wirewound resistors in, say, the following values:
0.75ohm
1.0ohm
1.25ohm &
1.5ohm.

Then buy a pair of Duelunds of the value you like best.

You might also be suffering from RF interference. IE. use a choke instead of a wire link and get a pair of the chokes which Al Sekela recommends (various inmates use these, so they should be able to tell you what to buy).

Enough inmates love the sound of their 1.6s to "prove" to you that they can sound nice - your problem is simply to make this happen.

Regards,

Andy

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ahhh no - The peleton 22:38:42 09/27/10 (2)

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"8ga bare wire - a little brighter in the 1.6s"??? - andyr 22:43:20 09/21/10 (2)

RE: "8ga bare wire - a little brighter in the 1.6s"??? - The peleton 00:50:04 09/22/10 (1)

"Ear fatigue sets in after only an hour or so of medium level listening!" ... - andyr 01:33:21 09/22/10 (0)

Methinks you are confooosed :-)) ... - andyr 14:25:11 09/20/10 (0)

Solid bare copper works - sbrians 12:33:54 09/20/10 (0)

RE: attenuators?? is there better?? - Ron90068 12:27:17 09/20/10 (0)

RE: attenuators?? is there better?? - neolith 11:04:21 09/20/10 (2)

RE: attenuators?? is there better?? Neolith? - WernerLen@aol.com 16:13:02 09/20/10 (1)

RE: attenuators?? is there better?? Neolith? - neolith 17:45:45 09/20/10 (0)

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