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| Would you sell to someone with no feedback? You can often find out a lot about people via the web, that may provide insight into their honesty or lack thereof. I would Google the person’s screen-name, real name, and email address. I would also see if the person has a page at Facebook, Linke... | |
| Need recomendation for an IC to fill out and enrich the sound between amp and pre-amp. Jim, as you realize but others commenting here may not, your BAT VK-200 does not provide RCA inputs. So the RCA-to-RCA cable you are asking about would have to be used with an adapter (or an unbalanced to balanced converter such as a Jensen Transf... | |
| How to hook up a preamp to a Integrated amp The P-5 has a moderate specified gain of 12 db balanced and 9 db single-ended. Those would be the gains it would provide with its volume control at max, and those numbers correspond to an output voltage that is about 4 times as great as the input ... | |
| How to hook up a preamp to a Integrated amp You could connect the preamp to one of the integrated's line-level inputs. While that would amount to having two preamps in series, and from a philosophical standpoint keeping the signal path as simple as possible is usually to be preferred, that... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 If Al happens to be still following this thread I hope he’ll correct me if I’m mistaken. I was already composing my answer above when you posted this, Charles :-) And no, as usual you’re not mistaken.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Jkull, like the majority of phono stages the ZP3 appears to not provide a volume control. Therefore to be able to control the volume you would connect it to one of the 219ia’s inputs that does NOT bypass its preamp section (i.e., to one of the inp... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 Earlier I connected the oppo via XLR L channel analog output, into the SVS and something was NOT right. I got signal through to the sub but it was clearly audibly wrong with what I was hearing. I felt like I was hearing highs and miss [mids?] come... | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia vs Mc225 If the sub provides speaker-level inputs (some do, some don’t) you would connect it to the speaker terminals of the 219ia, together with the connections to the main speakers.If the sub provides only line-level inputs, since the 219ia doesn’t provi... | |
| DEAR AUDIOGON STAFF: Please remove/fix floating ads that block what we are reading!!! P.S: Are you sure that some unwanted adware app hasn't found its way onto your computer?Regards,-- Al | |
| DEAR AUDIOGON STAFF: Please remove/fix floating ads that block what we are reading!!! FWIW, I haven’t ever seen that occur on this site. I use Firefox on Windows 10 computers, without any ad blocker installed. I do have Firefox set to ask permission before allowing Adobe Flash to run on any site (which I generally do not grant, as ... | |
| Choosing Sub-woofers. Please advise ASAP. I have a wood floor on concrete so not an issue with weight. Good! Another factor that should be considered is how all this equipment will be powered. Assuming 120 volt AC the four McIntosh amplifiers have specified current draws (presumably wh... | |
| Choosing Sub-woofers. Please advise ASAP. Tim, thanks for providing us all with some excellent inputs and food for thought.On a different note altogether, I would ask the OP in all seriousness if he has considered the ability of the listening room floor, and its support structure, to hand... | |
| Cd Ripping - is it better to use inbuilt CD drive of laptop or use an external Cd drive I agree with the EAC suggestion made by several of the others. And at this point I see no reason to conclude that the USB cable had anything to do with the problem, in part of course because a different drive was being used for the two rips. (And ... | |
| Heat/Efficency of Speakers Redfuneral 12-12-2016 ... my former SE Parallel EL84. OK, then my previous supposition that the amp was biased in class AB was not correct, as a SE parallel amp will operate in class A. So the 60 to 75 watt estimate I stated for the power consum... | |
| Heat/Efficency of Speakers Hi Bill (Brownsfan),I mostly agree with your points, as far as they go. But regarding the relevancy of the speakers, I would add a couple of things.First, for a given listening volume a given class AB or class D amp will draw less current fr... |