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| Help! My system is very bright it hurts my ear Fatgosil, I’m not sure if you are realizing that a passive biamp arrangement, which is what you appear to be describing, will not provide proper tonal balance unless the gains of the two amplifiers are equal or close to it, or if differences in th... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Perhaps the following attempt at a summary of the fuse directionality debate would be constructive at his point. Or perhaps it won’t be, but I’ll attempt it anyway. The summary reflects comments that have been made in all three of the fuse threads... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Regarding the aforementioned directionality-related measurements provided by HiFi Tuning, I recently posted the following in the ongoing Littelfuse thread: Regarding the measurements described in the HFT paper (which Nonoise was kind enough to li... | |
| Connecting Headphone Amp Hi Alan,Thanks for the update, and for the very nice words. I must say, though, that I'm surprised and puzzled. When you tried the last of my suggestions (quoted below) was the problem that no sound was heard through the headphones, or was the p... | |
| Artists' lps that don't get the respect deserved Hi Gpgr4blu,I can't really provide any meaningful insight re your question. I have two versions, an original LP I purchased in the late 1960s and subsequently played pretty much to death on low fi equipment, and the 2-cd "Anthology" set which inc... | |
| What does oppo stand for? According to various references on the web, including this Wikipedia writeup, the name of the parent company in China, transcribed to Western lettering, is "Guǎngdōng Ōupò Yídòng Tōngxìn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī," which translates to "Guangdong Oppo Mobile ... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong ...what I say is that a/s can never be adjusted properly... And therefore any anti-skating setting, including zero, is a compromise. Which says nothing as to whether zero may be a better compromise or a worse compromise than any other.As I ment... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS Ralph, yes, that is very conceivable to me, even in the cases of the most astute and sincere listeners. As you’ve probably seen, I’ve mentioned in many past threads how easy it is in audio to attribute a perceived change to the wrong variable. And... | |
| Technical question on phase inversion. The audible significance of inversion or non-inversion of polarity, aka "absolute phase," is controversial. In part because many recordings are comprised of a random mix of polarities for different instruments and/or singers. Consistent with Atmas... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong Thanks, Fleib. Your post reminds me that I should have mentioned that the procedure I described should be performed during low volume musical passages, having minimal groove excursions.Regards,-- Al | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong A simple method for setting anti-skating that I’ve found to work well, at least with cartridges having medium to high compliance (I have no experience with cartridges having low compliance), and which I’ve found to generally require little if any ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Mark, 250 ma is 1/4 amp (ampere), so that is definitely not right. You were probably looking at the value that appears by default for the large size fuses. Click the inverted pyramid symbol next to that value and you'll find the other available ... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong P.S to my previous post: To be precise, the last sentence of my previous post should read as follows: If deflection to the right is evident it would confirm that for whatever reason your anti-skating force is still too low, or for whatever reason... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong I got my Cardas test record out and placed it in smooth section and it imediately gravitated to inside. I adjusted anti skate to where cartridge slighty pulls to inside . If, as I assume, when you refer to the "smooth section" of the test record y... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Aolmrd1241 4-7-2016 9:46am EDTI read somewhere that only the direction of the ac [in a fuse...or power cord for that matter] towards the business end of the component[what is heard] is of any value in directional break-in ,hence, the reason there ... |