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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: I do not know what else are you looking.
Post Subject: this causes me a problemPosted by Dominic on: 2/2/2007
I've run into that yucky place where words get in the way of ideas.
The mastership is what i'm after. My problem has always been the electronic side of it. I bet i could design a driver that would get me as far as a driver could, but i'm always swimming somewhere out of my confort zone with the electronics side of playback, capacitors for instance have little intuitive use to me.

I started reading about the Melquiades from the link and started to build up the idea into some kind of cure-all. Not a productive mentality, but i'll get over it.
I did end up with two questions though:
-What on earth is geoff's playback like if he can suggest such effective little things off hand?
-In parts, roughly what should i budget for a melq build?
and a further two:
-perhaps since you say Used in past many others amplifiers, preferably SE maybe i should go for a bottlehead amp to familiarize myself with like things?
-as i mentioned to start off this thread i'm essentially starting from scratch. I'm loathe to ask this question, but i will do as i must: what should i be looking for from a pre-amp (with relation to prospective matcing with melq.)? There is a lot of 'documentaion' on the topic of melq. and i haven't gotten through it all so perhaps the topic of the pre. has already been disected. If this is so just let me know and i'll go stumble across it.

I figure i might as well -at some point- make it clear why i'm starting from scratch.
I've grown rather annoyed with my current ss integrated's short commings and would like to kill a few birds with a few stones as it were.
The phonostage is somewhat lacking in vitality and some other things, the design doesn't allow for a line level crossover, and there are some other sonic things as well. Plus, it's failing. The other part of starting from scratch is that i aquired some speakers this summer and haven't used them properly yet, i just sat them in the room and played sounds through them, which has me a bit depressed, on top of that i'm going to have to add a midrange driver.

But the main reason i started this thread was the realisation that what i really wanted was a solid basis for pushing my understanding of music. I wanted a tool that i could conquer, at least given time, that would allow me to tailor according to my needs and understandings, the playback i got from whichever speaker implementation i had available to me. I figured, as i started to open this thread, that this could be something acheivable regardless of topology as long as the implementation was simple/smart enough. Further I was asking if perhaps there were certain basic amplifiers that would allow my playback to eventually hit on at least those sonic points i listed, not that i'm certain they can all fall within the scope of the amplification section of a playback installation, they may still be things i'd like to get through my playback. And I had a sort of system architecture in mind that i tried to describe.

If anyone else can further illuminate my path, that would be dope.

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