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| ... how important is Damping factor in determining what amp to buy Gs5556 It is not important at all....... a general rule of thumb is that an amp with a DF of 20 or below has sonic consequences. Doing the math, the speaker in this case is 95% of the load -- a considerable change that results in sonic degradati... | |
| ... how important is Damping factor in determining what amp to buy Folkfreak, I couldn’t find any indication of the specific damping factors for the four settings provided on your amp, as you couldn’t, but I did find this statement in the datasheet (which you’ve undoubtedly already seen): Another new feature is a... | |
| ... how important is Damping factor in determining what amp to buy It appears that your Onkyo has a damping factor of 50, and the Nikko has a damping factor of 70. Both of those damping factors will be suitable in terms of sonics with any speaker that is suitable for use with a solid state amplifier. I’ve been l... | |
| ... how important is Damping factor in determining what amp to buy From a post by Atmasphere in this thread on damping factor: There is no speaker made that requires more than 20:1 for a damping factor, and there are speakers that prefer a damping factor of 1:10 (usually high efficiency full-range speakers). From... | |
| Low volume on turntable?? Lew, in addition to Mofi’s comments, as you may have noted Hockey4496 did say in the OP that there was "no depth/bass." Weak bass of course being one of the major consequences of the absence of RIAA equalization that would be provided by a phono s... | |
| Low volume on turntable?? Mark & Hockey4496, thanks for the nice words. I don’t have specific knowledge, though, that would enable me to suggest a cartridge in that price range that I feel confident would be a meaningful upgrade to your AT-95E. But in addition to the r... | |
| Cardas Clear Speaker Cables - From cable skeptic to beliver in one fell swoop Eniac, yes I certainly agree that Cardas (and a number of other manufacturers) are to be commended for providing meaningful information about the design of their cables. Unfortunately those manufacturers seem to be in the minority. And while in ... | |
| Cardas Clear Speaker Cables - From cable skeptic to beliver in one fell swoop P.S. to my previous post: The reason for the relatively high capacitance per unit length of the Cardas Clear is most likely that it helps make possible the cable’s very low inductance (0.0176 microHenries/foot). The likelihood that a low inductanc... | |
| Cardas Clear Speaker Cables - From cable skeptic to beliver in one fell swoop A point that may be relevant is that Cardas Clear has a capacitance of 278 pf/foot, which is considerably higher than the capacitance of most other speaker cables. Mogami 2921 is more like 30 pf/foot. And by any chance was the Cardas Clear you tri... | |
| Low volume on turntable?? I did calibrate the counter weight and anti-skate appropriately for the new cartridge.... I would add to the excellent inputs you’ve received from the others that anti-skating recommendations provided by the manufacturers of many turntables are of... | |
| Jumpers For fairly extensive discussion of this question, see this thread and this one. Quoting from myself therein: Having followed many prior threads that have addressed this question, I can say unequivocally that a clear consensus has emerged. That c... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) Jazzonthehudson 4-29-2016 Al, have I fallen for a SR marketing trick? Their website states repetitively "... By applying a two million volt signal to a cable at a specific pulse modulation, and ultra high frequency for an exact duration of time... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) Jazzonthehudson 4-29-2016 Have you experimented with superhigh voltage to create that tunneling effect in cables? No, I haven't. My background is in analog and digital circuit design involving conventional voltages.BTW, as I mentioned a while ba... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) JazzontheHudson, while you're probably already aware of this you can download a pdf of the service manual for the M25 via the following link, if you first complete a simple registration process at hifiengine.com:http://www.hifiengine.com/manual_li... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Analogluvr, I read it and my reaction was similar to yours. It almost seemed like a satire of audiophile tweaks.Regards,-- Al |