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| Tekton Double Impacts Craigl59 12-19-2017 Music at 95db from acoustical instruments is not dangerous at all. Noise, however, can be troublesome as loud as 90 db.... Regularly play on a piano at 95 db and it is not at all stressful. Absolutely! As I can attest having sa... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts A few years ago one of our members who performs professionally in a classical symphony orchestra posted the following, in this thread. I would emphasize the words "continuous time weighted average" in his post. Recently, there was a post on the I... | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Is there some speaker performance or design spec that signals when a voltage vs a current source is preferable? If the impedance of the speaker is relatively high, and does not vary greatly in magnitude over the frequency range, and does not have ... | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Hi Ghosthouse,A theoretically ideal voltage source has an output impedance of zero, and a theoretically ideal current source as an output impedance that is infinite. Neither exists in practice, of course. However most (but not all) solid state am... | |
| Phono Stage Recommendation $3000 I also called Keith and ordered my VTPH-2 directly from him.Regards,-- Al | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Given Nitrobob's preferred listening levels of 108 to 112 db, what would be surprising to me is if his impressions of the speaker did **not** differ considerably from most of the others that have been reported. Not only would I expect the sonic... | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Hi Jim, As for that -3db item regarding 4 ohm impedance speakers, is this attribute a constant with respect to power across the bandwidth?IN other words, with a 4 ohm IMP whatever speaker will it always be 3db down in SPL at what ever rated ampli... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts I'm looking for a good, dynamic, warm, speaker that has a real crisp tweeter and big inch woofers, and can play loud... Know of any ? Very few audiophile-oriented speakers can generate 110 to 112 db SPLs at 9.5 feet and be in their comfort zon... | |
| Why does unplugging/replugging TT leads from tube phono pre-amp reset dead channel? Thanks for the additional info. It doesn't sound like a grounding issue, as there's no hum involved.If by any chance you have a multimeter, it might be helpful if you could perform the following experiment: Remove one of the XLR shorting plugs. ... | |
| Why does unplugging/replugging TT leads from tube phono pre-amp reset dead channel? Layniesdad83, thanks, but both the description and the manual of the VK P-10SE, as well as various rear panel photos that can be found online, indicate that it provides RCA as well as XLR inputs. And the manual states the following in bold-face t... | |
| Why does unplugging/replugging TT leads from tube phono pre-amp reset dead channel? Some questions, that might be relevant if the problem turns out to not be a connection intermittency as the others have suggested:1)Assuming the turntable is connected via RCAs, are the XLR input shorting plugs that were originally supplied with t... | |
| Which watts are the right watts in SS amps? Hi Jim,Strictly speaking, speaker efficiency would be the ratio of acoustic power out to electrical power in.However, it is common practice for the term "efficiency" to be used to refer to the sound pressure level (SPL) that would be produced at a... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Very nice list, DBB; thanks for compiling it. Personally, I would have suggested Beethoven symphonies 6 & 7, rather than 3, 5, and 9, but of course they're all great!Best regards,-- Al | |
| Is there such an animal as a RCA analog to USB converter that works? I mean they MIGHT work... No, they definitely won’t work. As I said earlier, the necessary device would have to emulate the USB function of a computer, meaning that it would have to act as a USB "host." That is a completely different and much more... | |
| Is there such an animal as a RCA analog to USB converter that works? George, thanks, but aren’t those things you linked to designed to interface analog signals TO a computer, rather than providing the audio in USB form as if they ARE a computer? The latter being what Uberwaltz would require, as I understand it.Best... |