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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... I have provided detailed comments on the HiFi Tuning measurements on a number of occasions in this and other threads. For example see the first of my posts dated 5-14-2012 about 3/4 of the way down on this page in the "Fuses That Matter" thread f... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Bill (Grannyring), as you realize a given length of 14 gauge wire will have much lower resistance than the same length of thin fuse wire. However, the very short length of a fuse wire will result in very low resistance anyway, since the resistance... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Earlier this year there was a very lengthy thread here entitled "Why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable." I posted the following in that thread, which I think is sufficiently relevant to be worth repeating here in its entirety. To p... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Hi Jkull,If you look at the section of the 7701’s manual on "Crossovers" on page 129 (pdf page 132) I believe you’ll conclude (as I have) that you are most likely sending a full-range signal into the LM, even though the sub output is set to be act... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Hi Jkull,Regarding your question above about the 7701, as you've no doubt seen it has a bewildering array of possible settings in its menus. After skimming through the manual, which can be found here under "downloads," I believe that in addition ... | |
| Dielectric grease on connection ends Thanks for the nice words, Dave. There’s certainly no reason for me to take umbrage, as I would consider it to be a great compliment to be mistaken for a designer of highly regarded audio electronics such as Ralph. And perhaps the mixup was contri... | |
| Question regarding the EAR 834P... I would absolutely rule out the splitter approach, and I would suspect that the switchbox approach is likely to result in a significant degree of sonic compromise. Keep in mind that with the splitter approach you would be connecting the two ca... | |
| Lemon HiFi-Tuning Fuse? Kenny, Noromance may be referring to the ongoing "Synergistic Red Fuse" thread, in which several people reported experiencing false blows (fuses blowing unnecessarily) with some SR fuses in some equipment. I and others therefore suggested using SR... | |
| Periodic noise Thank you kindly, Ptss!If anyone is curious as to what led me to suggest the security system possibility, I have no particular knowledge of such things, and I don't have one in my house. What I did was to first Google one or two terms I thought m... | |
| connecting mono amps to pre amp Yes, you understood correctly. When each of the amps is used in mono mode, and each amp is connected to just one 8 ohm speaker, you would use the 16 ohm tap (also referred to as the 16 ohm terminal). As mentioned earlier, be sure to also connect a... | |
| Periodic noise Good question, dbtom2, but I guess the answer is "no" since Mr. H stated in the OP that the issue occurred with multiple phono stages, and only when a phono stage was connected and selected.Regards,-- Al | |
| Quack System Upgrades Shadorne 12-26-2016 Good quality and well designed equipment should be highly sensitive and revealing of the source and not the wires used to connect equipment together. Audio 101 basics in design and quality. Good point, Shadorne. My percepti... | |
| connecting mono amps to pre amp Yes, as I said previously: The switch on the rear of the 2120 that selects between stereo and mono should be set to mono, as has been said.The mode selector switch on the front panel of the 6100 should be set to stereo, assuming you are listening ... | |
| connecting mono amps to pre amp The Mono(L+R) position of the switch will send the sum of the signals for the two channels (which is normally what is considered to constitute a "true mono" signal) into both speakers. But as can be seen in this photo it appears that other positi... | |
| ROI. Where is money better spent? I was concerned that less expensive cables would vail or block some of a good preamps sonic performance. Regarding the correlation between cable price and cable performance, you may find this thread to be of interest.Good luck. Regards,-- Al |