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| Cover Songs that are better than the Original A couple of oldies which come to mind, the first of which is an instrumental:"Harlem Nocturne" -- The Viscounts' unique interpretation of an old jazz standard."You Can't Catch Me" -- The Blues Project's cover of a Chuck Berry song, on their "Proje... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? In the case of dynamic (box-type) speakers, as a general rule of thumb small physical size, deep bass extension, and efficiency trade off against one another. So among the kind of small "bookshelf" speakers you are interested in more efficient spe... | |
| Help! High level subwoofer input on a class D amp introduces ground loop. I’ve never used a sub or subs in my system. The speakers I’ve used over the years have all been spec’d down into the mid to upper 20s of Hz, with my present speakers (Daedalus Ulysses) being spec’d down to 28 Hz +/- 2 db, and with the rolloff belo... | |
| Help! High level subwoofer input on a class D amp introduces ground loop. I currently run a Peachtree, but it is an older model ....Certain older class D amplifiers utilized class D modules which were designed such that both the + and - speaker-level outputs are offset from ground by a large DC voltage. Something like 2... | |
| Items for sale without remotes. This issue was discussed in 2018 in the following thread, which you also started: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/items-for-sale-here-and-on-ebay-without-remotes My comment in that thread: One reason a seller may not have the remote, at lea... | |
| The “They are here” vs “You are there” sound topic The following thread from 2010 may be of interest, in which the same question was discussed at length: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/quot-they-are-here-quot-vs-quot-you-are-there-quot I provided several detailed responses in that thread, ... | |
| Please suggest a few really good classical recordings Among classical symphonic recordings of familiar and immediately likable pieces, what may be the best overall combination of sonics and performance that I have ever heard is a Chesky cd, number CD31, containing a performance of Dvorak’s "New World... | |
| Your first system and your journey... My first "system" was a $20 portable phonograph. It was followed shortly thereafter by an H. H. Scott integrated turntable/receiver with Scott speakers, manufactured when Mr. Scott no longer owned the company. The first system that I would ref... | |
| Which is the most important part of a stereo system? Here is a prior thread in which this question was discussed at length: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/what-is-most-important-part-of-a-system I stated as follows in that thread:Do not expect any consensus among the answers which will be pr... | |
| 10 meters of interconect cable is too long. A 30 foot speaker cable is much better than a 30 foot interconnect........... It depends on many things. And over the years there have been a number of threads here in which the question of long speaker cables/short interconnects vs. short speake... | |
| Building an AUDIOPHILE friendly PC from scratch so what is a must to consider in 2020? I see no reason why an M.2 drive for the OS and and a 1 TB SSD in either the M.2 format or the SATA format for everything else wouldn’t be fine choices, assuming a fairly recent motherboard is chosen which can accept M.2 drives.For the computer I ... | |
| Pairing of PreAMP and Amplifier Thanks! Good to know. I recall that incorrect spec misled another member in a thread here a few years ago, although I don’t recall what the upshot was in his situation.Regards,-- Al | |
| 10 meters of interconect cable is too long. ... next project will upgrade preamp with xlr connections. FYI, simply adding XLR connectors to the preamp will not help, because you would still be sending single-ended signals into the cables. Unless, that is, major modifications were made to t... | |
| 10 meters of interconect cable is too long. Yes, unfortunately you are likely to experience some degradation of sonics at that length, especially given that the interconnections to the amp are single-ended. And a simple RCA-to-XLR adapter at the outputs of the preamp will not help.However y... | |
| Pairing of PreAMP and Amplifier The Burmester amplifier is said in various places (here, for example) to have a balanced input impedance of only 1.88K , while like most ARC line stages and preamps the Ref-6 has a recommended minimum load impedance of 20K. So if you are using bal... |