almarg
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| Recommnedations for moderately price balanced IC's, and adaptors to an RCA end Hi Jim, He informed me that "Line 3" of the Sphinx integrated is an input, not an output. There is an area on the back of the Rogue Sphinx sectioned off that has a variable and fixed output The "variable" output is the one he recommended for hooki... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... OP, +1 re "Sam" (I used quotes around his name in my previous post because that was a pseudonym, as is fairly well known) and Lars. Very enjoyable and witty reviews.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Interesting, Wolfie, that you should mention the late Lars Fredell ("The World's Greatest Audiophile"), as just the other day I happened to be reading his brilliantly written and informative review of a Tenor OTL amplifier. Very sad that he passe... | |
| Recommnedations for moderately price balanced IC's, and adaptors to an RCA end Jim, a few further comments, and some corrections to what may have been inadvertent miswordings in your post: To Almarg and Hasmarto: The Mogami cable XLR(female) to RCA (male connectors) are all of one cable, not an "ADAPTOR" ADD ON to a XLR to X... | |
| DEQX Beginner seeking advice Roscoe, congratulations on the new digs, and on the improved acoustical situation! And thanks for posting the links to the John Darko reviews in the "game changer" thread. Best regards,-- Al | |
| Preamp for audio research ref110 I think I will get an RCA to xlr converter until I get the real thing. Seems like these are available from pro-audio shops. Given the previous comments by Docknow (thanks!) and myself, I assume you are referring to an active converter, i.e., one t... | |
| DEQX Beginner seeking advice Blang11, welcome to Audiogon! As you can see in my system description thread I am using an HDP-5 in my system, which serves as my line stage preamp in addition to providing its signal processing functions. However my system does not include subwoo... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Nyame 7-28-2016 7:09am EDTIF YOU DO NOT HEAR THE BENEFITS [OF THE BLACK FUSES] YOUR SYSTEM IS NOT PERFORMING OPTIMALLY. As I, Atmasphere, and others have pointed out in a number of past threads, the ability of a system to resolve hardware differen... | |
| Preamp for audio research ref110 For short term you could run an RCA to balanced cable from the SP9 to Ref.110. I suspect that like most or all of the the more recent ARC Reference series amps the Ref 110 won’t work properly when provided with unbalanced signals via adapters or a... | |
| Recommnedations for moderately price balanced IC's, and adaptors to an RCA end That’s an excellent question, Mesch. And in fact some balanced amps, such as most or all of the the Audio Research Reference series amps, won’t work properly when provided with unbalanced signals via adapters. In those cases apparently only half o... | |
| The Ghostess with the Mostest...R.I.P. She also did "Marni Nixon Sings Classic Kern" (RR28) for Reference Recordings. Thanks, Mofi. I don't have that recording, but I just listened on YouTube to her performance from that album of "All The Things You Are." It's one of the few perfor... | |
| Bi-amping Rules While anecdotal indications are that there are certainly **some** cases where audiophiles have achieved fine results by bi-amping, in both passive and active configurations and by using different as well as identical amplifiers, I agree with the f... | |
| The Ghostess with the Mostest...R.I.P. What a beautiful voice. R.I.P. Marni. +1. Sad news.Somehow I haven't listened to my Reference Recordings LP of "Marni Nixon sings Gershwin" in quite a few years, but I remember it fondly. I'll be listening to it again soon in her memory.Best... | |
| Subwoofer hunt Ghosthouse, yes, putting a 2000 ohm load in parallel with the vastly lower impedance of a speaker would result in a change in the overall impedance seen by the amp that is certainly negligible. For example, if the speaker's impedance is 8 ohms th... | |
| Can I use a step up transformer? Matt, I agree with the others that there’s nothing wrong with having to use the volume control in the upper part of its range, as long as you never find yourself wanting to turn it up higher than it can go.Also, I looked at the specs of all of the... |