This really reads like they brought on a new hired gun, who doesn't have ownership or ultimate authority. Who is behind it, and where is the necessary capital coming from? Without more info, this is meaningless.Saved and new ARC
If you are referring to tube cages (grill covers are on speakers), the tube cages do a couple of things. First, they’re for safety. They protect you, your guests, and your pets from the tubes. Second, they protect the tubes from you.Is there any scientific basis for the amp to sound better by removing the grill cover? I prefer its sound without grill.
Unless you’re the debt collector, or the judge, or the receiver, it really doesn’t matter how you interpret it. Unless you’re in the aforementioned group, none of it affects you. Let these parties sort out their laundry without kibitzing from gossiping parties far from the perimeter. My take on it, also irrelevant, is that Val Cora looks like solid backing with business acumen, with good intentions, and pockets deep enough to back them up.This really reads like they brought on a new hired gun, who doesn't have ownership or ultimate authority. Who is behind it, and where is the necessary capital coming from? Without more info, this is meaningless.
Yes, cage. Over here we loosely call it grill, like a barbecue grill. Yes, it is for what you mentioned. But having no little kids and pets, I have not been putting them on ever since, even on the Jadis JA200, I was told by the dealer to remove them if I have lone access in my listening room. So I am glad to hear that indeed it can affect the sound. I want to put back the ARC160s cage because the cage is huge and occupies space in my room but upon putting it back, the sound became compressed, so I took it off again. I also noticed that with the cage, the area above the power tubes gets really hot. That is understandable. I lived with 2 ARC models that had no cage included - VS 110 and VS 115.If you are referring to tube cages (grill covers are on speakers), the tube cages do a couple of things. First, they’re for safety. They protect you, your guests, and your pets from the tubes. Second, they protect the tubes from you.
Tube cages are just perforated casework. And casework can affect amp sound because its presence or absence changes the natural frequencies. It adds mass, and it changes stiffness. So the mounting tranquility of the amps parts can vibrate more, or less, and at different frequencies, depending on the fixing of the cage.
CJ had once been helping me troubleshoot some amps, and after we’d sorted it out, I commented that I was confident in the fix, so I’d put the tube cages back on. The comment from CJ was “Most of our owners leave them off.”
Sometimes you find CJ amps up for sale missing their cages because the cages were viewed as “extra expendable stuff” by a former owner.
I’ve seen what you mention, ie tube cages/grill covers that are optional at the original purchase. I guess I’m the kinda guy who would buy them for completeness, even though I’d store them.Yes, cage. Over here we loosely call it grill, like a barbecue grill. Yes, it is for what you mentioned. But having no little kids and pets, I have not been putting them on ever since, even on the Jadis JA200, I was told by the dealer to remove them if I have lone access in my listening room. So I am glad to hear that indeed it can affect the sound. I want to put back the ARC160s cage because the cage is huge and occupies space in my room but upon putting it back, the sound became compressed, so I took it off again. I also noticed that with the cage, the area above the power tubes gets really hot. That is understandable. I lived with 2 ARC models that had no cage included - VS 110 and VS 115.
It could act as a Faraday cage. That could be a plus in some installations.In addition to protection (yours and the tubes) and dust reduction, the cage can also provide additional protection from EMI/RFI (noise) incursion.
I saw that too. Note that the litigants appear to be lighthouse and arc. The affidavit filed by Lighthouse asserts their qualifications to handle the process. It is as if ARC is trying to back out of receivership … and is not sophisticated enough to recognize that they need a lawyer (they’re representing themselves).Just when one thought it was safe to come out of the ... this piece appears in Strata-gee. So is it? was it?
Instability is the last thing ARC needs. The last thing the world needs.
https://www.strata-gee.com/audio-research-corp-is-sold-or-is-it/
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It will have the same power tube count as the 250, not the 160.Sounds great.
So the 320 will have twice the power of the 160 with "no more tubes." I look forward to seeing how they accomplish that.
I admit it is confusing.At the 4 minute it says the 250 is thier biggest and. But they will double the 160 to 320. TAteast to these 69 year old ears.It will have the same power tube count as the 250, not the 160.m8nute mark he says they will double thec160
You can see the design here. No need to speculate.I admit it is confusing.At the 4 minute it says the 250 is thier biggest and. But they will double the 160 to 320. TAteast to these 69 year old ears.
In any event that is( 70-160) a significant increase. Maybe they will go hybrid.
I guess it is already in the works. Maybe we will see it in next year's show season.