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| PLEASE match Advice Pass Labs X350.5 (20k) to Hovland HP-100 (2500ohms) Miss-match ??? ... so I am committed to make the BAT work if you guys think it will. It will certainly work in a fairly reasonable manner, but as I said it would be introducing a known compromise, that IMO represents a significant risk that you would ultimately ... | |
| PLEASE match Advice Pass Labs X350.5 (20k) to Hovland HP-100 (2500ohms) Miss-match ??? Fsmithjack, re the BAT VK-50SE (the reference in JA’s measurement writeup to VK-500SE appears to be an error), given my previous comment you would have a balanced output impedance of 4.6K at 20 Hz driving a balanced input impedance of 30K (or perh... | |
| PLEASE match Advice Pass Labs X350.5 (20k) to Hovland HP-100 (2500ohms) Miss-match ??? Jmcgrogan2 10-8-2017I believe that you have those two numbers reversed. The way I read it on the Pass Labs website:Input Impedance (SE & BAL Kohms) 30/20.The way that reads to me is that the Input impedance is 30Kohms for SE, and 20Kohms for B... | |
| PLEASE match Advice Pass Labs X350.5 (20k) to Hovland HP-100 (2500ohms) Miss-match ??? To add to my previous post: What can often be more significant than the ratio of the two impedances, as defined at the worst case frequency (which is usually 20 Hz for preamps having capacitively coupled outputs, which means most tube preamps as w... | |
| PLEASE match Advice Pass Labs X350.5 (20k) to Hovland HP-100 (2500ohms) Miss-match ??? If the design of the Calypso hasn’t changed significantly since Stereophile measured it in 2005, especially with respect to the value of its output coupling capacitor, neither it nor the Hovland is an ideal match for the Pass X350.5. Not so much b... | |
| Buzzing sound from Peachtree Nova 150 - anybody else had similar experience? By any chance are the speaker-level outputs of the amp connected to a powered sub, or to a speaker that incorporates a powered woofer, or to anything else that is powered? If so, given that the speaker-level outputs of the Nova 150 and 300 are de... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Evolvist, my thanks also for a most interesting post. It certainly sounds like you have an uncommon amount of experience comparing well regarded DACs.In the case of the units you mentioned which provide DSP-based corrections (Linn, Lyngdorf, DEQ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts According to a recent TAS review the Linn Klimax DS lists at $23,375 in the USA, while providing only an ethernet input, and as noted above not incorporating a power amplifier. Various additional inputs are provided in the DSM version, at $27,500.... | |
| Have a few questions about bi-amping.. For reasons explained below I would rule out a passive biamp arrangement in this situation, and it seems to me that there would be significant downsides even if you were to biamp using an external electronic crossover. First, per John Atkinson’s ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Joe (Jafreeman), thank you for the witty and gracious response. I hope my suggestion proves to be helpful. Jay23, since your last three responses to my posts have been largely devoid of anything substantive, I have little in the way of further com... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Thanks, Tom. Yes, it was a different member, not you, who has been asserting that "the patent for ’UEF Technology’ is the paint," claiming that Mr. Denney’s Acoustic Paint patent is what SR’s description of the Blue Fuse is referring to when it s... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Hi Tom (Theaudiotweak),As you are no doubt aware, the claims section of a patent defines in very precise terms exactly what the invention or inventions is or are for which the patent holder is granted exclusive rights. A patent attorney will att... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... An additional thought regarding the recent posts on SR’s Acoustic Paint patent, adding to the previously stated facts that the patent makes no mention of fuses, UEF, or Inductive Quantum Coupling. Or for that matter anything that has to do with th... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier. DESTROYS SPEAKERS!! Nycjlee, methinks the post by Linnlingo was a clever mixture of sarcasm and humor, considering that The Great Wall of China has lasted for many hundreds of years, and I believe in some places for thousands of years. :-)Regards,-- Al | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Jay23 9-29-2017...the patent for "UEF Technology" is the paint. As a point of information, I had said as follows in a post in this thread dated 9-23-2017: The Blue’s description at the SR website states in part as follows: The new SR BLUE Quantum... |