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| Musician vs. audiophile P.S: It occurs to me that the 100K input impedance of the BAT amp probably means 50K for each of the two signals in the balanced signal pair, and the measured 14K balanced output impedance of the preamp at 20 Hz (assuming the Six-Pak is not instal... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile Charles1dad 12-30-2017I believe most if not all BAT power amplifiers have input impedances of 100K ohms. Right you are, Charles, as usual!Repeter, as Charles indicated the input impedance of your amplifier is spec’d at 100K (much higher than the i... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Jaybe 12-29-2017 How about a link to those patents. The only patents I could find in a search of both granted patents and patent applications at uspto.gov, using "Mrock" as the search term, were these two.However those patents were granted in 201... | |
| Zerostat: Old is Gold? I purchased an original red Zerostat in the late 1970s, and replaced it with the blue "Milty" version about 8 or 9 years ago. As far as I could tell the original one was still working as well as ever, but I wanted to eliminate any lingering uncert... | |
| Throughly disappointed with my new Yamaha A-3000 Integrated....... @arch2 Your question is a good one. And as I indicate below a follow-up question with Martin-Logan will probably be necessary to be confident in their answer. But first I’ll mention that there are two things which make this situation different fro... | |
| Manley chinook & low output mc’s John Atkinson's measurements of the overall gain (line stage + power stage) of the LM-518IA, as reported in Stereophile, are as follows: The maximum voltage gain, measured into 8 ohms, varied with the output tap, but was appropriate for an integr... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile To add to my previous post, many McIntosh solid state amplifiers have balanced and unbalanced input impedances in the vicinity of 20K. Driving impedances in that vicinity will almost certainly be a problem for your preamp, if it does not have the ... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile I suspect that an impedance compatibility issue is contributing to the problem. Your BAT VK-3iX (I assume that is what you meant) has output impedances for its XLR and RCA outputs that are very high and that also vary widely across the frequency r... | |
| Why do some amps provide more output power when using a balanced connection? Thanks very much for the nice words, gentlemen!@marktomaras, regarding your questions:1)The LS25 has a fully balanced/truly balanced/genuinely balanced internal signal path, and if XLR inputs and outputs are used the entire signal path from input ... | |
| Why do some amps provide more output power when using a balanced connection? Hi Mark,The preceding responses are generally correct, but I’ll elaborate on them a little further and then address the Jotunheim question specifically:When an unbalanced signal is received, usually via an RCA connector, what is sensed by the rece... | |
| Throughly disappointed with my new Yamaha A-3000 Integrated....... Can you run a connection from the terminals on the speaker to the sub? No, absolutely not. That would result in the same issues that would occur if you connected to the amp’s speaker terminals.However what would probably work ok, depending on the... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Jwm 12-25-2017 I’m using cat 6 from my pc to the router which acts as a local network as it is not attached to the internet. Cat 6 then goes from the router to the internal M5 board of the bricasti. Which then converts and reclocks the signal via ... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Jwm 12-25-2017 Ethernet out of router into the M5 internal board of the bricasti to reclock and convert via i2s to the dac. Your telling me this switch cleans up the router. I don’t seem to see how this helps as the signal is handled by the M5 in ... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Hi Jeff,What is it that you are saying is "running wireless"? If you are saying that the computer that is running J-River is wirelessly connected to the router, that would have no relevance to Fsmithjack’s suggestion or to what I have said in rega... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Hi Jeff,All the switch would do would be to hand off to the DAC data packets it receives from the router that are addressed to the DAC. And vice versa for communications that are sent from the DAC and addressed to whatever source is being used via... |