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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... A couple of further comments regarding the statements at the AH site:1)As I mentioned in my previous post, it follows from the second of the two statements I quoted that a "typical fuse" provides zero noise rejection. Which sounds right to me! The... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... ... the More Than a Fuse dramatically increases the impedance from 0.2 ohms to 10 ohms at 10 MHz, thus increasing high frequency noise-rejection fifty fold over that of a conventional fuse. Bill, as a point of information an 8 inch length of mediu... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Fleschler, some additional input relating to the hypothesis I provided earlier that in some cases might explain sonic differences between supposedly identical CDs.An Audiogon member whose screen-name is Kirkus is, in addition to being one of our m... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Hi Charles,Ivan Moravec was certainly among the great pianists, especially when it comes to his interpretations of the works of Chopin. I have about a half dozen of his recordings for solo piano that were issued on high quality cassettes several d... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Charles & Bill (Grannyring), Sebok isn't nearly as well known as his cellist friend and teaching and recording colleague Janos Starker, but he was a wonderful pianist. I have two of the Mercury Living Presence LP's they did together, of cello... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... ... multiple pressings of CDs can have variable audio quality from the same pressing plant, in other words, they don’t sound necessarily alike. There is no electrical or physical reason that I’ve found or my friend Robert has found, but the proof ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... A difference of opinion, and a civil discourse regarding the same, is a good thing ... its the way we learn. Again, this thread is like a bunch of like minded guys sitting around the local bar discussing a common interest. Every once in a whil... | |
| SUTs and Resistive Loading Questions But if you run the calculations as if loading on the secondary side, the SUT’s affect is negligible. I’m still not following you. If a 15:1 SUT is inserted between the cartridge and a 100 ohm phono stage input the cartridge will see a load of 0.4 ... | |
| SUTs and Resistive Loading Questions If my phono preamp has a 100 ohms load setting, can I use that (instead of the 47,000 ohms setting and the above calculations for adding parallel resistor) to essentially get the 100 ohms load impedance I want? Edwyun, your calculations look corre... | |
| High End Ethernet Cables ....Real Deal or Snake Oil Thanks, Kalali. A minor point: Aside from a few oddball exceptions, I believe that nearly all BNC connectors have either 50 ohm or 75 ohm impedances, not 110 ohms.Regards,-- Al | |
| To monoblock or not to monoblock McIntosh MC275's Effischer, thanks very much for the nice words, informative references, and good comments. Interestingly, I took the "Weber's Law" test four times, using four different settings of the volume control on the computer. On the low volume trials wit... | |
| High End Ethernet Cables ....Real Deal or Snake Oil Are these fancy cables banking on the same principles of other digital (SPDIF/XLR) cables ~ a well made cable reduces the margin of errors resulting in less requests for re-sends, and if there are less errors and subsequent re-sends, perhaps this ... | |
| To monoblock or not to monoblock McIntosh MC275's Thanks very much for the nice words, Cleeds. Regarding ...It does sound like the two channels of a stereo amplifier must be very closely matched for parallel operation to work well. Because we’re talking about tube amps, I wonder how practical tha... | |
| To monoblock or not to monoblock McIntosh MC275's Cleeds, the vintage Dynaco ST-70 is another amplifier that I recall has provisions for operation with the two channels paralleled. I’d imagine there are others, among tube amps that have output transformers.It is of course physically possible to p... | |
| To monoblock or not to monoblock McIntosh MC275's As a point of information, when the MC275 is operated in mono mode it is not bridged. The two channels are paralleled instead, which is different than bridging. And while I have no knowledge of how its sonics may compare between stereo mode and mo... |