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| Help With 60Hz Hum PLEASE Al can tell you the whys you will need balanced cables over single ended for the lowest noise floor possible. A properly designed balanced interface will reject nearly all noise that is present equally on its two signal lines, since a balanced rec... | |
| Audio Research VT-100 Mark 3 SE/BAL switch Wow! Someone must have been having a particularly bad day when those cables were assembled. Or perhaps multiple someones, if (as one would hope) their QC function for a given cable is not performed by the same person who did the assembly.Anyway,... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... @audiolabyrinth, Keith, although of course I have no specific knowledge of the internal design of your Krell amp, and although you mentioned earlier that Krell's service manager strongly recommended against changing the value of the 1 amp fast blo... | |
| Speaker Hiss with Krell Amp I assume, given the preamp you are using, that you are connecting it to the amp via RCA cables. Are jumpers in place between pins 1 and 3 of the amp's XLR connectors, as called for in the manual when the RCA input connectors are being used? If ... | |
| Use 4 or 8 Ohm output tab for norminal 6 Ohm speaker? I believe the lower the tap, the lower the output impedance and distortion, always a good thing.Bdp, that's correct with respect to output impedance being lower on a lower impedance tap. As a rough approximation the output impedance of a 4 ohm ta... | |
| Power Re Generator capacity questions P.S. One additional thought:4)Keep in mind that a regenerator will in itself consume power. For example the PS Audio P10, which can supply up to 1500 watts, has an efficiency rating of ">85%" when supplying large amounts of power. Which means t... | |
| Power Re Generator capacity questions Llippman, I'll just add the following thoughts to the excellent inputs and analyses you've been provided with above:1)Before deciding how to proceed, I would suggest that if you don't already have one you obtain a good quality multimeter and measu... | |
| The Beach Boys As someone who has never particularly been a Beach Boys fan (although I’ve certainly never disliked them), I nevertheless want to extend kudos for the excellent responses above. I would have to say that I’m now more of a fan than I was a few hours... | |
| Can I hook up a headphone amp to my integrated? Hi Mike,I’m wondering something about the addition of a preamp output to the WA6-SE, that you may want to ask Woo about. If instead of using my approach no. 4 you were to use that output of the WA6-SE, connecting it to the input of the power amp s... | |
| Can I hook up a headphone amp to my integrated? Hi Mike,The WA6-SE looks like a fine choice in all respects, as far as I can see, aside from the possible slight inconvenience of having the input select switch on the rear rather than on the front. And based on the specs power would not be a conc... | |
| Audio Research VT-100 Mark 3 SE/BAL switch No, you did not damage the interconnect by shorting one of its signal leads to ground. The output impedance of the Ref5SE, which is more than 300 ohms for each leg of the balanced signal pair according to John Atkinson’s measurements in Stereophil... | |
| Did you hear Adele at the Grammy's? unfortunately that link did not work, Almarg :(Interesting. Its status has been changed to "private." When I posted the link it worked, and it had nearly a million views and well upward of a thousand comments.Best regards,-- Al :-) | |
| Can I hook up a headphone amp to my integrated? But let me ask….why is it that you can't just hook up a headphone amplifier to the line in inputs on the integrated, like you do a phono amp? Just curious :)Inputs receive signals; outputs provide signals. If you connect two inputs together ne... | |
| Can I hook up a headphone amp to my integrated? Someone at work told me I could get a splitter and put on my phono stage output and run one set of interconnects to the integrated amp, and another to a headphone amp. Sounds like that might work, but not sure how much that might degrade the overa... | |
| Do you rely on RAID as your NAS backup? Ozzy, see this Wikipedia writeup re RAID.Regards,-- Al |