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| Recent sound deterioration shrillness, ringing Jim (Broadstone), how have you been connecting the sub to the Behringer? If by any chance you have been using an XLR-to-RCA adapter or adapter cable at an output of the Behringer, most such adapters short the inverted signal on XLR pin 3 to ground... | |
| amp power & driver sensitivity in multiamp setup Thanks, Ralph. I don't think, though, that Lewinski was asking about adding more drivers or putting drivers in series. As I read it he was asking about the possibility of choosing a single 16 ohm driver instead of an ostensibly similar 8 ohm drive... | |
| DAC drops out when Furnace starts or stops. HELP Good call on the cable, Jim (Jea48). I would not have guessed that. And your explanation sounds very plausible. I agree with Kijanki's comments as well.Jadedavid, the reason that a length of 1.5 meters is often recommended for digital cables is fu... | |
| DAC drops out when Furnace starts or stops. HELP If the audio system, the furnace, and the water heater are all on the same AC phase, I believe there is a good chance the problem would be resolved if you were to have an electrician move the system's dedicated line(s) to the other phase (i.e., to... | |
| New Tekton Pendragons On The Way Thanks, John (Roxy54). The technical aspects of speaker and driver design are not a forte of mine. But I believe you are correct that a spaced dual woofer configuration will tend to help with respect to room modes. However I suspect that in the ca... | |
| Anyone know of William Schaeffer Audio Design? I found an indication at another forum that a William Schaeffer Audio Design stand-mounted monitor was a rebadged and modified version of a Chinese-made Aurum Cantus speaker. So the same thing might apply to your floor-standing speaker. Perhaps yo... | |
| New Tekton Pendragons On The Way 10-06-15: Stereo5Already thought about the phasing and tried reversing the leads on one speaker. Really no difference in sound.Are you sure about that? If the two speakers are not connected with the same polarity there should be a reduction in bas... | |
| Running subwoofer off Dodd preamp 10-06-15: 1markrSwamp is correct. Although that is nearly always the case :-) it may not be in this particular situation, for the following reasons which might in fact account for why you prefer to run your ML sub from the amp.More often than not ... | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? An excerpt from today's blog post by Mr. McGowan on the same subject:Our newest DAC, DirectStream, ... has zero loss at any level setting–a major achievement. So, how could a control with zero resolution be suspect? That’s a question I have been m... | |
| Another Pair of Skeptics Converted While I haven't taken the time to study the specifics of Doug's system, speaking generally Bombaywalla makes some very valid points IMO. In a post here from a few years ago I summarized many of the ways in which cable behavior can be expected to v... | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? Thanks, George. I suppose an additional possibility is that high frequency noise resulting from a ground loop condition between a DAC and a power amp could enter the DAC's output circuit and find its way via grounds, power supplies, stray capacita... | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? Interestingly, Paul McGowan, designer/manufacturer of the OP's DAC, has just in the past few days been posting thoughts on the very question being discussed here in his blog at the PS Audio site. Some excerpts:My adamant stance against inserting a... | |
| ever used KT88 for bass and el34 for mids/treble I would interpret the question as referring to continuing to use the two amps in a vertical biamp configuration, but using EL34's in the channel of each amp which drives the mids/highs, and KT88's in the channel of each amp which drives the lows.I... | |
| Need reasonably priced balanced preamp Thanks, Yogiboy. I had forgotten that the CP-60 had a phono stage option, and I didn't notice the reference to it in the title of the listing you referred to.Mine did not include the phono stage option, btw, so I have no knowledge of its sonics.Be... | |
| Need reasonably priced balanced preamp +1 re the Classe CP-60, although the $1600 price seems a bit high. Seven years ago I purchased one here for $1350, in perfect condition, and with the original remote control (in contrast to the one that is presently listed). And the $1350 was the ... |