How loud do you listen to music?

[earwaxxer]

I think its 5am - Bisbee time....

[Natural Sound]

Anyway, I recall that when this was my mainstay amp I would run them around half volume for most material. It turns out that this is right around the "recommended" 82 dB level. I forgot how damn good this amp sounded!

So the S.E.X. 2.0 with Orcas produce about 82 dB with the pot half way? Is that 12 o' clock? And how were they wired with regards to impedance?

Actually thats with my SEXy speakers. My Orcas and subs haven't arrived yet. I've been waiting 110 days so far, and still no signs of them. But that's another story.

The stops are set at 7:00 and 5:00 as Grainger indicated. I'm using a MyDAC to feed the S.E.X. amp which is rated at 2V rms output but I haven't actually measured it.

[manis]

That's not enough info. You have to know what the output level of the source feeding the S.E.X. amp is.

I was quite sure I was missing something

FWIW, on the Stereophile website I found some data regarding the HRT Music Streamer II that's my source at the moment:

"It locked to data with sample rates of 44.1 and 48kHz and had a maximum output level at 1kHz of 2.16V. The signal was absolute polarity-correct and was sourced from the same impedance as the Streamer+, 246 ohms, at low and middle frequencies, this dropping slightly at 20kHz, to 226 ohms."


Is this the relevant information? Anyway, I guess I'll just find out first hand how loud they'll go at which setting.

My Orcas and subs haven't arrived yet. I've been waiting 110 days so far, and still no signs of them. But that's another story.

Wow, and I thought waiting 17 days (so far) was nail biting agony. What's the hold up?

[Natural Sound]

My Orcas and subs haven't arrived yet. I've been waiting 110 days so far, and still no signs of them. But that's another story.

Wow, and I thought waiting 17 days (so far) was nail biting agony. What's the hold up?

That's an excellent question. One that I don

[Molly B]

My Orcas and subs haven't arrived yet. I've been waiting 110 days so far, and still no signs of them. But that's another story.

Wow, and I thought waiting 17 days (so far) was nail biting agony. What's the hold up?

That's an excellent question. One that I don

[Natural Sound]

Molly, I sent you a reply offline via e-mail.

[earwaxxer]

Just a reminder... there are other very good options out there for American made speakers at very good prices. Ex. Magnepan MMG's - $600/pair. Just saying. I'm not saying they are the best buy out there, but they must be very damn close.

Peace - Eric

[Natural Sound]

Just a reminder... there are other very good options out there for American made speakers at very good prices. Ex. Magnepan MMG's - $600/pair. Just saying. I'm not saying they are the best buy out there, but they must be very damn close.

Peace - Eric

Nice speakers but not SET friendly. They need lots of power to get them going.

[earwaxxer]

True, not SET power amp friendly. But certainly tube pre amps fit the bill quite nicely.

[4krow]

Wow Earic(heh heh, I just like that spelling better), I bought a set of MMG's many years ago and the price then was $500. Pretty decent that only a $100 up in so many years.

[earwaxxer]

Hey Greg - The Magnepan folks live by the adage 'If it aint broken, dont fix it'. Those MMG's have remained the same in construction and price for many years. They just recently upgraded the crossover, then went to a full 'pseudo ribbon' design. In my experience, they continue to sound better and better with other upgrades in my system. The speed of the ribbon is fantastic.
cheers - Eairdick.

[Mike B]

My usual level is ~65 dB.  That's for serious listening -   I set it under 60 if I'm reading a book.

People ask me what I listen too, classic rock.

Huh?  Yeah, it amazes me too. 

I have a system in the garage I built with Eminance Beta 10's and Selenium compression drivers driven with a kilowatt not including the subwoofer and that can get to near concert level with the clip lights just blinking at the peaks.

But in the bedroom the 8 inch Tangbands feel the caress of the Stereomour and the soul of the music gets through even better and makes me shiver it's so good.

Really, ~65 dB at 3 meters in bed.  I got up and verified, it is ~71 at 1 meter.  With rat shack analog (needle) SPL meter.  I said "Hi" and the meter pegged.  Yup, well under normal speech.

That's what I love about the high efficiency single driver and the tubes, I get all the sound w/o all the volume.  It's on every night at bedtime.  I look forward to it.  Sometimes I wake up at midnight and find I forgot to turn it off.

Simply amazing and wonderful!

[earwaxxer]

Hey Mike - you know you're as serious phile when you have a system in every room of the house!

[Mike B]

Oh yeah.  I'm serious.  Demented even.

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Serious watts.

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Serious speaks.

All that stuff didn't cost as much as the flea powered tube amps I've bought recently.

Yup, 65 dB.  If I want to rock & roll and feel it hit my chest I can always go out to the garage and get 115 dB.  It actually sounds good there too.  I'm getting too old for that shit -

[earwaxxer]

Thats sick!