The Hornshoppe Forum

Hi all, Helen and I hope you all had a great Christmas. I meant to post days ago but it has been stupid here. First, we are not complaining at all. We had made lots of preparations for stuff like this. It's actually kind of satisfying to know everything went "according to plan". Trust me there are people all around us that are in Hell. Even though everyone was warned about the temps. there was little to be done if your pipes, well and tank were not seriously weather proofed. We saw 10 degrees. The water tower in Lexington sprang a leak! I wrote the note below to send to a friend but don't feel like typing the story again so I will copy and paste. We missed Christmas but all in all we are good. I have been wanting to replace that bladder tank for a long time.

For us the week was "interesting" and still is not over. Here is the short version. Helen started feeling bad last Sun. night. By Mon. morning she was full blown sick, not a cold. Neck hurting her, head, throat, bad congestion, weak, no appetite....best guess was the flu, we doubt it was covid for the 3rd time, she felt worse last week than our second covid brush. She was just getting better Thurs. night.

 Well, I started feeling bad Tues. and Wed. was really feeling bad. Thurs. I was in bad shape. We made preparations for the cold weather, storing water, making sure gas was filled, etc. It was miserable. Here is the best part....Thurs. night around 10pm right after I had taken a shower ( I had gotten a bad feeling about the temp.) the water froze and stopped. Well, it was 10 degrees when I looked about 7am. Fri. morning. Never got above 25 or so all day. Got down to 16 Sat. morning. Well, the "water" did not just freeze, ALL of it did. The bladder tank froze as well as all pipes. Nothing we did or could have done would have stopped it. We are trying to thaw the bladder tank but it is a 20 gallon block of ice. Tomorrow I am going to buy a bladder tank and replace it, it's 20 years old and time, along with all the exposed pipes. It will be days before they all thaw and they are easy to get to. With luck we will have water late tomorrow afternoon. Had my first bath since Thurs. night today at Dad's place. Yes, it was sad going there.

So, that was us. We sure hope your week was less eventful!
Ed

I was thinking about a Bryston 4BST!

The 4BST is rated for 250 WPC, but your Horns are only going to be using a fraction of that potential. Think of it like this: Your wall AC outlet is (generally) on a 15 amp breaker, but you can plug a 7 watt nightlight into it without harm. The light draws no more power than it requires to function.

I've NEVER had an issue with an amp having too much power for any speaker I've ever used. I'd rather have too much than not enough, as amp clipping (especially a SS amp) concerns me far more than excess power. As Henry said, just watch your use of the volume control. At any "normal" level you usually listen at, you'll be fine.

Henry, I was thinking about a Bryston 4BST! I have one with a volume control made for me by Bryston to power a pair of Unity Audio Subwoofers.

I currently use a 35 watt tube amp with no regrets.  Ed has used a high power Pass amp years ago with no problems.  Just be careful with the volume control.  Also, when starting up, turn on the source(s) and preamp first, then turn on the amp in case something upstream passes DC when starting (I had a tube preamp that did that).  That should be a rare issue, but it happened to me and fried my drivers.

PS - Try to avoid Class D amps as some seem to have issues with the speaker crossover.  That's a shame since there are some decent sounding Class D amps these days.

More revealed after Jim Baker's throttle was removed.  "Twitter's secret 'blacklist': Second tranche of bombshell internal files reveal conservatives were marked 'do not amplify' and COVID lockdown skeptics 'shadow banned' in a move staff called 'visibility filtering' to stop accounts and topics trending"  They even manipulated the Covid narrative to certain direction for political reason.  It didn't affect me or those I know but it did brainwashed many people.  I still see people wearing mask outside walking alone.