adambennette
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| What do the arrows mean on my cable? +1 @whart Analog audio is alternating current, the electrons are pushed and pulled down the cable for each wave of the signal. There is no overall direction, the push-pull is EXACTLY symmetrical so there are EXACTLY as many electrons travelling... | |
| To truly enjoy this hobby, I need to learn electronics. Any book recs? Try 'The art of electronics' by Horowitz and Hill. It's a classic work that covers a lot of ground. Also I recommend 'tube cad journal' on the net by John Broskie, this is proper electronics but not mired in jargon and maths. Elliot Sound Produ... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Possibly now viewed as quite uncool: Julie London, 'Around Midnight' album1960 Doris Day, Secret Love among many others Lani Hall (already mentioned) Sergio Mendez &B66 'Equinox' 1967 Swingle Singers, especially with Christiane Legrand (Mi... | |
| Amp's that are better sounding than a nad 3020 May I suggest you look for a second-hand Sansui. Sometimes they come up at close to your budget. Some Sansuis are excellent and none of them are bad. They are gutsy and can usually drive low impedance speakers very well due to their generous po... | |
| FInally I have a noise issue ...all the above applies to laptops. When it comes to desktops you need different solutions (e.g. isolation transformers) as, obviously, you cannot disconnect the mains supply to the computer. | |
| FInally I have a noise issue Hi there, I sometimes use an iPad as a cable-connected audio source, like I guess many people here do. I found it is essential to be not charging at the same time. You must have only the audio headphone/lineout wire connected. Any other connec... | |
| 45 Type Push/Pull Hi, I build pp45 amps, I’m not here to sell them, but have a few comments that I hope will be helpful. first I would say that the power difference between 2a3 and 45 designs is a paper thing mostly, they tend to sound close-to equally powerful (o... | |
| Speaker Recommendation Help Please. and I strongly agree to get a big heavy rug on the floor in front of the speakers. | |
| Speaker Recommendation Help Please. Hello, I have usually preferred the sound of closed box (infinite baffle) speakers and so now own KLH5 for that reason. I suggest you should try them. The imaging is good, very good, for a three-way. They can be placed reasonably close to the ... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing Hello, not much discussion here about statistics... well, it's not an exciting subject really. I thought the point of blind testing was the sample size. One person is not enough, maybe you need more than 100. If more than, say, 60% of them op... | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? Audiophiles (and I am possibly one) usually do not get a basic truth, it's not about the equipment, it's about the music. I have a nice HiFi but I quite often play old mono records because I like the music on them, including ones that are badly s... | |
| How does the Phase Linear 400 compare? It’s funny how a group like this can be so in disagreement about the PL400. I am in the the uk, I have a PL400-1 once part of Queen’s PA system that was given to me broken by their road manager. I have used it for home hi-fi since. Some of the com... |