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| Dedicated Line Advise Lowrider, I’ll just add to the many excellent comments that have been provided the suggestion that it may be worthwhile to re-read this thread from about two years ago. Note particularly the comments by electrician expert extraordinaire Jea48 (Jim... | |
| What are you favorite artists and songs to listen to on your system? Way too many to list, but I'll mention that within the classical genre a couple of works that IMO are impossible to dislike are Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 (the "Classical Symphony"), and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 (the "New World Symphony"). Also, C... | |
| Does it ever bother you Matt, I was wondering if the works of the composers mentioned in the second post shown here might be among the "odd selections" you referred to. As well as the works of a great many other classical composers whose works have been issued on the re... | |
| Aesthetix Romulus Signature Upgrade Worth the $3,000 ? Charles, FYI, with the new format you should be able to edit your posts within 30 minutes of when they are submitted, even if someone has posted in the thread subsequently, by clicking the icon that looks like a gear in the upper right corner of t... | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? As a technically oriented and analytically minded person, I find myself making such determinations in a manner similar to the manner in which the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said he distinguishes between pornography and Cons... | |
| Is the word 'Integrated' that hard to spell? Speaking of spell checkers, here and elsewhere I’ve been seeing a rather striking number of instances in which the word "defiantly" is substituted for "definitely." Hard to believe so many people would make that error intentionally, which leads me... | |
| Newbie Q: AppleTV to analog only preamp P.S: If the preamp you choose doesn't provide HT passthrough, a good approach would be to connect the output of the HT device to one of the preamp's inputs, then determine a suitable setting of the preamp's volume control that you would always re... | |
| Newbie Q: AppleTV to analog only preamp Or does the Y cable screw with the sonic quality?It is presumed that only one of the units will be on at one time; either preamp, or HT device.The y-adapter itself won’t significantly affect sonics, but what stands a good chance of having major ad... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Thanks for the comments, gentlemen. Sounds like a plan, Roscoe!Yes, I would think that a DEQX will generally make speaker positioning at least a bit less critical than it would otherwise be, as a result of the corrections and equalizations it can ... | |
| Newbie Q: speaker cable length? Different OK? Interesting. I wonder what the difference in composition would be between "speaker-intended" wires, and AC? Yet, that anecdotal "no one raved about them" is telling. Still, I would wonder. Copper is copper. Extruded is extruded. Just wondering out... | |
| Balanced Audio Technology Preamp - Tube compatibility question - Help As I read it the cautions in the statement you quoted only apply to the metal versions of the 6V6, and you have glass tubes. So while per the statement it is possible that pin 1 is connected to the grey shielding (which would seem very unlikely to... | |
| Newbie Q: speaker cable length? Different OK? That example, a 6 gauge would yield like a quarter the resistance of the 12 gauge. (How’m I doing, Al? <grin>)Right you are :-)In the context of wires such as these examples, that are intended for AC power distribution, "non-metallic" refers... | |
| Newbie Q: speaker cable length? Different OK? OK; thanks for the clarification. So when they referred to the diameter of "individual conductors" in their description they were referring to the diameter of each conductor (+ and -) **including** its insulation. And when they referred to the o... | |
| Newbie Q: speaker cable length? Different OK? And on that count, let me ask, from the link, sufficient enough cables? I looked at the link, and they strike me as a reasonable choice, at least to use initially and perhaps over the long term. I’m somewhat puzzled, though, by the references in t... | |
| Newbie Q: speaker cable length? Different OK? This question has been discussed and debated in a number of past threads. For my opinion, see my posts here.The bottom line to my posts in that thread: While there may or may not be sonic differences between the two alternatives, even if there wer... |