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| Passive high pass filter - Marchand XM446XLR-A Thanks Eric (bdp24). I’m wondering, though, if the change you referred to from 15K/30K to 30K/60K might have been introduced sometime after the Mk.II was initially marketed. The Stereophile review I referred to indicates in numerous places that it... | |
| Passive high pass filter - Marchand XM446XLR-A Sounds like a plan, Tim! Best of luck.-- Al | |
| Passive high pass filter - Marchand XM446XLR-A Tim (Mitch2), to be sure it’s clear, I was saying that in most cases manufacturers specify balanced input impedances as the sum of the input impedances of the two balanced signal legs. I have seen a few exceptions, however, in which the specificat... | |
| Sub-woofer connection question But the JL Audio manual does not specify one method over the other. Actually, it does. On page 16 of the manual it states as follows: Speaker Level Inputs: This feature is included for convenience when needing to connect the Dominion™ to a receive... | |
| Passive high pass filter - Marchand XM446XLR-A Gentlemen, yes, you would need a capacitor on each of the two signal lines in the balanced signal pair. Preferably the two capacitors should have a reasonably tight +/- tolerance on their value (for example 5%), so that they match reasonably close... | |
| Wilson New Speaker Master Chronosonic She looks like a beauty pageant contestant....Bdp24, she in fact has been exactly that, and with considerable success:http://www.utahsenioramerica.org/reigning-queen/However she is certainly not a "trophy wife," and has been a key contributor the ... | |
| VAC 30/70...pick your pre? I’m imagining 92db and greater then if I want to use SET down the line? Another factor that is equally important is that the speaker’s impedance should have relatively minimal variation as a function of frequency, or should be relatively high at a... | |
| VAC 30/70...pick your pre? Excellent comments by the others. A caveat regarding the possibility you mentioned of combining a CJ ET3 with the VAC amps. Like many CJ preamps the ET3 has very high line stage gain, 25 db in this case. My perception has been that the unspecified... | |
| Amp current - how much high current to go for I would just put the words "in general" at the beginning of Yogiboy’s statement. The McIntosh solid state amps that have autoformers and the Nelson Pass First Watt amps are, in different ways, special and pretty much unique cases among solid state... | |
| Amp current - how much high current to go for The reason you have to raise the volume much higher on the classical works you mentioned than on pop recordings is that the classical recordings have much wider dynamic range than the pop recordings. Dynamic range in this context refers to the dif... | |
| Amp current - how much high current to go for I’ll second the comment by Rhljazz. Also, this thread will be of interest. It explains why the current specifications that are often provided by amplifier manufacturers are misleading and worthless.And to provide some perspective, 1000 watts into ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts P.S. to my previous post: What I suspect is likely to make a more significant difference in sonics when the LTA amps are "bridged" than the resulting power increase, with the difference most likely being for the better, is the fact that the amp’s ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Mac48025 4-20-2017The LTA specs show the MZ2-S output at 1 watt into 4 ohms and .5 watt into 14 ohm. Let’s say that makes it .7 watt into 8 ohm. Is there any real advantage of .7 watt into 8 ohm over 1 watt into 4 ohm? I know Al will have the answ... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... Jinjuku, I'm referring to jitter at the point of D/A conversion, within the DAC component. If the explanation for the reported differences that I stated in my post dated 3-27-2017 is correct (and both I and Shadorne have stated that we cannot co... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... Hi Shadorne, As you know I’ve agreed with many of your posts in the past, that are often very informative, and I always view them with respect even when I disagree. In this case we’ll have to agree to disagree. When highly experienced audiophile... |