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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Charles, that’s an exceedingly thoughtful offer, and much appreciated!! 3 amps won’t work for me though, at least in the components I use for critical listening. My VAC amp has a 4 amp fuse in each channel, my Stax headphone amp takes a 1.5 amp fu... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Mapman 02-08-2016 1:48pmThese kinds of wild claims from high end companies really set off my BS meter.Glad they sound and work well according to the users in any case.+1 on both counts.I for one would be much more inclined to try a tweak that is ... | |
| Help With 60Hz Hum PLEASE Bgoeller, note the most recent post above by Jea48. I agree with him that the findings stated so far are not consistent with the problem being caused by a ground loop.Good suggestion by Imhififan to see if the 8801 produces a hum when connected to... | |
| Transferring files from PC formatted hard drive to Macbook Thanks, Kijanki. Consistent with the cautionary statements contained in the last paragraph of the link you provided (and many of the problems reported in the user comments which followed the article), this Wikipedia writeup on NTFS states:Native N... | |
| Transferring files from PC formatted hard drive to Macbook I’m not a Mac user, but since no one else has responded yet I’ll give it a shot.I presume the drive you are referring to is an external drive, that connects to a computer via a cable, probably a USB cable. If it was formatted by the manufacturer f... | |
| Help With 60Hz Hum PLEASE What happens to the hum if the Marantz is muted, with the mute function set to "full" rather than the other attenuation settings that are provided for that function?Regards,-- Al | |
| if you had my system and $2,000 budgeted for an upgrade, where would you spend it? I am getting the feeling that the 300b IC cables are the weakest link, and that stepping those up properly to a better cable, with auditioning different options is a way to go. To be sure that what I had to say about cables in my previous post ... | |
| I think I've Just Seen Absolute Proof That Audiophiles Are Insanely Gullible What is this Tice Clock that people have referred to? It was a $30 or so Radio Shack LED-based digital clock, that was allegedly subjected to some sort of "processing" that would allegedly enable it to improve the "coherence" of electrons in the A... | |
| Short coax digital cable: qed audioquest ricabl Hi Jim,A notable statement by the person with whom you were debating was:Are they aware that the S/PDIF interface has a defined jitter margin? If I am remembering correctly, it is +/- 20 nanoseconds for 1 Fs (44.1 kHz/48 kHz) transmission, which i... | |
| if you had my system and $2,000 budgeted for an upgrade, where would you spend it? Marktomaras 02-04-2016 10:40pmWould it make sense / make a difference to change only one to start with, or would I need to change all (save for the sub)?What would be the order of importance in these connections to effect the most change?amp - pre... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps By the way, all of my amps are FCL (flux-capacitor-less).I suspect that they'll perform best with contemporary music :-)Chris (Cal3713), thanks for the nice comment.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps Using the Zero nullify an OTL status.You already get rid of transformer then put new Transformer?Whats happening? going in circle?Xonex77, your question is a logical one, but there is a good answer to it. From the FAQ at the website for the Zero... | |
| if you had my system and $2,000 budgeted for an upgrade, where would you spend it? I called Wisdom and the impedance is 25k. Do I have any reason for concern there?Good! I've seen many other powered subs having line-level input impedances as low as 5K or 10K.Also, fortunately, the input impedance of your power amp is quite hi... | |
| if you had my system and $2,000 budgeted for an upgrade, where would you spend it? Looks like a great system!While I have no specific suggestions regarding a $2K upgrade, I would recommend that you contact Wisdom Audio and ask them what the apparently unspecified input impedance of the SCS sub is. Powered subs commonly have rel... | |
| Subwoofer cable recommendations Gdnrbob, as I indicated earlier amplifier and system dependencies result in there being little predictability in this case (and in many others) as to the optimal cable choice. And I have no knowledge of the KnuKonceptz cables other than what appea... |