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| Wide dispersion + high efficiency + detail + coherence in a speaker? Depending on your budget and on the physical size of a speaker that would be suitable for your room you may want to consider the Daedalus Argos. Click on the "specifications" box on the left side of the page for detailed specs. As an owner of t... | |
| Conditioning/Burn-In Method Perhaps this is an Almarg question:Does the cable need to be run at a high volume? Hi Bob,All I can offer about that is the common sense notion that whatever breakin effects might occur at high volume would presumably take longer to occur at low v... | |
| Conditioning/Burn-In Method Either one would be fine, but again, just make sure that with the 4 ohm 100 watt resistor you don’t turn the volume control up so high that it gets hot.For that matter, though, using the 4 ohm 100 watt resistor might be preferable to using the 300... | |
| Conditioning/Burn-In Method Yes, those would be suitable. Although as you may have noticed the 8 ohm version is listed as "currently unavailable." Regards,-- Al | |
| Conditioning/Burn-In Method Is there something I could buy at a local Lowes or Home Depot that would serve the purpose? Radio Shack sells the resistor shown at the following link, which would be suitable as long as you are careful to not apply so much power to it that it get... | |
| Conditioning/Burn-In Method I would not recommend using a 200 watt light bulb, and in general I would not recommend other light bulbs rated to operate at 120 volts.Their resistance will vary extremely widely depending on how much voltage is applied to them. For example, a 12... | |
| Conditioning/Burn-In Method Elizabeth is correct that in the great majority of systems the DAC-to-preamp connection conducts a larger signal (i.e., a greater voltage) than the preamp-to-power amp connection. On the other hand, though, what is relevant to your question is the... | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... When I purchase a car its styling and color are important factors to me, in addition to its performance and features. And likewise when my wife and I choose a piece of furniture or an appliance or anything else that affects the decor of the house.... | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs Elizabeth, I’ve never understood why some people put resistors in shorting plugs for analog inputs. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, from the perspective of the input circuit a plug providing a direct short would be little different than if t... | |
| Preamp to Headphone transformers? Regarding the buffer stage possibility, you might want to contact a gentleman named Tom Tutay, of Transition Audio Design in Florida. I don’t think he has a website, but his contact info can probably be found via a Google search. I recall that he ... | |
| Preamp to Headphone transformers? In short, I have an excellent preamp (ARC Ref 6). Rated voltage is 2V RMS (balanced) to a 200 ohm load with a max of 70V RMS. This is just way too much for headphones, but it wasn’t designed for them. First, the output voltage rating is based on a... | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? P.S. to my comments regarding the SA-200.2:While the manual makes no mention of it being either fully balanced or bridged, even though the manual includes a fairly lengthy description of its design characteristics and features, I see the following... | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? Ralph makes an excellent point, as usual.FWIW, though, my own preference over the years has been to start with speakers but to choose speakers which provide versatility with respect to amplifier selection. Meaning that they have medium to high eff... | |
| ARC Ref 6 - Is it normal? ...my Ref 6 cannot turn-on from time tom time. I already check very careful my power cable is fully plugged into my Ref 6 and my Audience aR6-TSS power conditioner very tight. What I need to do is to switch-off my Audience power conditioner, wait ... | |
| Which one I owned a Marantz 7 for a time during the early 1990s, and as its reputation suggests it is a wonderful sounding and classic piece. However assuming deep bass extension is a concern I would not recommend it for use with power amps having input imp... |