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| Soundtracks and Film scores, your favourites Hi David,You'll find this thread from last year to be of interest. From one of my posts in that thread:Almarg 8-26-2016 "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" -- directed by Jacques Demy; music by Michel Legrand."Marry Me! Marry Me!" -- directed by Claude... | |
| SS Hard Drive with Bluesound Node 2 Thanks for the input. As a point of information, though, the drive you are referring to is a mechanical drive, not a solid state drive. A 1 TB solid state Western Digital "My Passport" external drive lists at $400, and would cost around $360 if pu... | |
| Inherited 21 piece of vintage McIntosh and need help building a system I’m starting to dig in and turn things on and see what functions as is and what needs some work. If any of the components have not been powered up in several years, and certainly if they have not been powered up in a decade or two, they should abs... | |
| Directionality of wire While I would certainly agree with George that this thread is not lacking in the substance to which his last post refers, one way in which the thread can provide at least a modicum of value is that it may help those reading it to better calibrate... | |
| Ineed some help with a simple math equation The difference in gain will not affect how much power can be supplied to the speakers. It will just affect the positions of the volume control that you would find yourself using (and a 3 db difference is not a great deal), and the position of the... | |
| Atma-Sphere MP1 with single-ended inputs and outputs? Adapters OK? Be careful before using XLR to RCA adapters on outputs! Most of them short the signal on XLR pin 3 to ground (XLR pin 1). Some equipment can tolerate that, but some cannot. See this thread for an example of a situation in which it could not be ... | |
| Directionality of wire Thanks, Herman, for your characteristically excellent input, which like many posts you have made in the past commands a great deal of respect in my book.To be sure it’s clear, the statement that is quoted near the beginning of your post was made b... | |
| Directionality of wire Geoffkait 8-5-2017 as I already said the skin effect is simply that higher frequencies travel nearer to the outer surface of the conductor. And those frequencies are very high. Obviously, by inference, the lower the frequency the closer to the cen... | |
| Directionality of wire In the case of an electrical signal (or AC power) that is being conducted via wires the energy is conveyed in the form of an electromagnetic wave, which travels outside the conductor itself. That wave propagates at a substantial fraction (generall... | |
| Which personal confuser for ultra high end audio, MAC, PC, notebook, tablet or desktop? Blindjim, it's good to see you back here lately. Your posts are always witty and enjoyable.Regarding the possibility of ethernet cables making an audibly significant difference, see the following threads:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/hi... | |
| Directionality of wire That’s preposterous. Why on Earth would you believe cables can be directional but not fuses?Because as I’ve said numerous times in numerous fuse-related threads in which you’ve participated: If Geoff’s comments about all wires being significantly... | |
| Amp for Acoustic Zen Crescendo 2 ? Hi Bill,Clever idea trying the 0.01 uf cap in parallel with the 0.47 uf. That would presumably cause the filtering provided by the cap combo to become more effective at the RF frequencies corresponding to the switching that occurs in the output s... | |
| Amp for Acoustic Zen Crescendo 2 ? Hi Bill,I’m one who certainly agrees that capacitors can sound different, to a greater or lesser degree depending on the circuit application, of course. In this case I assume the cap is in parallel with the output, rather than in series, and there... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Hi Dave,The part that I linked to has a 75 ohm resistor built into it. And since it is intended for use in video applications (I have used it for that kind of purpose) I would expect the resistor that has been chosen to be suitable for use in ter... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Tommylion, thanks. That's definitely a tweak that makes sense from a technical standpoint, IMO. The degree to which it may help will of course vary depending on the design of the specific component.Also, in cases where unused digital outputs on ... |