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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Tommylion, I have long considered Brahms' First to be my all-time no. 1 favorite symphony. I don't have the Klemperer, which I understand to be magnificent. But among the various versions I have my favorite is the performance by Jascha Horenstei... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts @milpai A concern I would have regarding the use of your high gain (29 db) and very powerful Parasound A21 with the DI is that you might find yourself having to set the volume control on your TVC very close to the bottom of its range, given the v... | |
| Theoretical cable question Yup. The plural of the unit of inductance "Henry" is "Henrys," not "Henries" as I previously stated.Regards,-- Al | |
| Theoretical cable question To elaborate on some of the comments that have been made (and in some cases to contradict them):1) For a given cable type, inductance, capacitance, and resistance are directly proportional to length.2) The impedance presented by an inductance is d... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Chris (Waltersalas), thanks very much for the thoroughness not only of your report, but especially for the thoroughness of the comparisons you have been performing between these two fine speakers. Your opinions always have extremely high credibil... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener Rvpiano 6-9-2017The SVS guy told me to set the phase to zero. How do I determine phasing differences? What do I listen for? I really couldn't hear differences when I first set up the sub.From the manual for the sub: Phase Control:This control ... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener Rhljazz, thank you. I believe the phenomenon referred to in your first paragraph applies to the situation where a y-connector is used to sum left and right line-level outputs to a mono signal, with the resulting mono signal provided to a sub havin... | |
| PS Audio DL3 with a Y adaptor on the Coax Digital Input Would there be any sonic downsides to this arrangement? I suspect that there probably would be, and I would not recommend doing this. The result would undoubtedly be significant distortion of the digital signal waveform, as a result of signal refl... | |
| Einstein Little Big Phono impedence match with Pass XP20 No problem whatsoever.It is commonly stated that to assure impedance compatibility for a line-level interconnection the input impedance of the component receiving the signal should be at least 10 times as great as the output impedance of the compo... | |
| Know anything about Pentagram Loudspeakers? RC22, I haven't heard any of the Alta Audio speakers, but I too have read favorable comments about them. And of course they have the benefit of 30+ years of additional experience Mr. Levy has had since his Pentagram days.About a year after my pre... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener @steakster That sounds MUCH more promising. I would expect a reasonably well designed transformer coupled output stage to not have much variation in output impedance over the frequency range. Consequently I would expect that even if the output imp... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener @Steakster, I don't think it's possible to answer your question without a lot of additional information, including the things you mentioned that cannot be determined, and also: -- The input impedance of your power amp. -- The length of the cables... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener Shadorne, thanks for the excellent comments. Regarding cable capacitance I’ll mention that I had raised that issue earlier in the thread, and it turns out that the OP’s existing interconnects are only 2 feet long. Given the preamp’s nominal output... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener Jafant, see the first of my two posts dated yesterday (6-4-2017). Most or all REL subs are not suitable for this particular application. Also, the OP has already made his decision and his purchase.Regards,-- Al | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener Hi JohnnyR,As I mentioned earlier in the thread the line-level input impedance of the SVS SB-2000 is 47K, which is much higher than the line-level input impedance of many and probably most other powered subs. In combination with the 22K input im... |