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| Balanced But Not Fully Balanced @gdhal Hi Hal,As you are aware, the Oppo player is clearly described as featuring "a true differential signal path all the way from the DAC to the 3-pin XLR connector." And as you indicated the Emotiva ERC-3 purports to be similar in that respect.... | |
| Balanced But Not Fully Balanced @gdhal Hi Hal,In the case of an integrated amp (or a power amp), if the design is fully balanced there usually will be statements in the manual and/or marked on the rear panel cautioning against connecting the negative speaker-level output termina... | |
| Preamps with two main-outs Can the generally published spec for amplifiers’ input impedance, e.g., 47K ohms for the Vincent, be simply measured at the input ports, presumably with the amplifier turned on, or there’s a lot more involved in taking this measurement? Thanks aga... | |
| Preamps with two main-outs Nevertheless an active amplifier works as specified with input impedance as stated when powered up - I am not sure what happens to the input buffering on all amps when switched off - probably most remain high impedance but that is not a given ... | |
| Preamps with two main-outs Yes, thanks for posting the schematic, imhififan. And yes, it is of course hard to read. But it appears that what is most likely a relay is connected directly between the signal pin and the ground sleeve of the RCA input connector on each channel.... | |
| Preamps with two main-outs P.S: Regarding the inconsistency between Shadorne’s post and mine that was posted at almost the same instant, I guess it goes to show that great minds don’t always think alike :-)Best regards,-- Al | |
| Preamps with two main-outs Good find! I took a look at the manual for the SP-331, and it indicates that the amp is muted for some number of seconds after turn-on while the input tubes warm up. That is not surprising, but what is very surprising is that based on your findi... | |
| Preamps with two main-outs Onhwy61, I hereby nominate you for today’s edition of the Wolf_Garcia Award for most amusing post of the day.I must, however, respectfully disagree with my learned A’gon colleagues who posted above. Kalali, while I’m not certain if what you have d... | |
| $10k DAC in a 3k system? Thanks, Richard (Ricred1). In my humble opinion one part doesn’t equal same performance. No question about it. There are of course countless variables and tradeoffs that contribute to the overall performance of a design. And, hypothetically speaki... | |
| Allnic 1201 and Herron VTPH-2 The web states that my integrated is 100k ohms .That looks good for the Herron . How about the Allnic ? At 1.2k , that is quite a jump . Great on both counts! And in fact I doubt that any reasonably well designed phono stage would have a problem d... | |
| Allnic 1201 and Herron VTPH-2 Member Waltersalas (Chris) has owned both, formerly the Herron and presently the Allnic. The change occurred during the course of some unrelated major system changes, and was not due to any dissatisfaction with the Herron. His system description t... | |
| $10k DAC in a 3k system? @dla123 The 26 pound weight of each of your speakers is much less than the weight of any other 3-way floor-standing non-planar speaker of comparable dimensions that I can recall, that I would consider to be of reasonably good quality. Such speaker... | |
| a beginner question about compatibility of cable metals for speakers (s video) The conductors in S-Video cables are commonly 26 or 28 gauge, which under typical circumstances would have too much resistance to perform in an accurate manner as a speaker cable. That would still be the case even if you were to use two of the fou... | |
| $10k DAC in a 3k system? I note that your Rega integrated amplifier has a rather low line-level input impedance of only 10K, and that it provides only unbalanced RCA inputs. I couldn’t find an output impedance spec or measurement for your DAC, but it appears that its RCA ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @milpai Sounds good re your volume control! As you realize, in contrast to many resistive-based controls a TVC will do well at low volume settings. The main concern, and I suspect the only concern, would be running out of range when you may want... |