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| Is DEQX a game changer? Thanks, Roscoe.When listening to LPs via the Stax headphones, which are of course very revealing, the DEQX continues to seem to me to be perfectly transparent. Which is amazing, of course, considering the A/D and D/A conversions it puts into the s... | |
| Hegel Design Flaw? 08-25-15: SabaiI connected the REL and the H20 together. The ground wire was attached to the left channel. The problem was the sound coming out of the right speaker. So, the REL could not have caused this problem. Agreed.Even supposing the REL may... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? An update for those who have been following my progress with the HDP-5: There will be a further delay until I perform the room corrections, due to an unrelated issue that has arisen in my system.I've recently been noticing significant loss of defi... | |
| Primaluna & Klipsch Cornwall frustration HELP 08-22-15: DylanfanBy the way the amp sounds sweet with small monitors where I don't expect much bass.08-24-15: DylanfanIt sounds good just missing the low end. Not as clean as my LS50's or Dynaudio speakers but will probably be a great rock and ro... | |
| Hegel Design Flaw? 08-24-15: SabaiAlmarg,The REL was connected to the speaker binding posts via the Synergistic Research REL cable.My system is fully balanced from wall to speakers.Unless you initially tried the Hegel prior to ever connecting it to the REL and found... | |
| Hegel Design Flaw? Sabai, some questions, which regardless of the answers should not be interpreted as any kind of excuse for the poor behavior of the manufacturer and dealer. I see that you use a Rel T3 sub in your system. How did you have it connected when the Heg... | |
| Passive & Tubed pre-amps to power amp at same time? Ghosthouse, if you happen to have a multimeter it would be interesting to know the values of the two resistors that are presumably used in the Harrison Labs attenuator. The values aren't particularly critical, but knowing them may provide added co... | |
| Primaluna & Klipsch Cornwall frustration HELP So what kind of speaker sounds best with this kind of amplifier?In general, I would expect speakers having much flatter impedance curves (as well as having fairly high efficiency) to be better bets.Regards,-- Al | |
| Primaluna & Klipsch Cornwall frustration HELP This should be a great combo. Not necessarily, as I see it.According to the impedance curve shown here for the Cornwall II, its impedance is in the vicinity of 5 ohms at most bass and mid-bass frequencies, while rising to much higher values at mos... | |
| How old are your speakers Although I no longer have them, for about 27 years beginning in 1983 my primary speakers were Pentagram P10's, the later generation version, designed by Michael Levy (whose present speaker company is Alta Audio). I briefly had various others durin... | |
| Passive & Tubed pre-amps to power amp at same time? If what you are trying to accomplish is simply to increase the part of the volume control's range that is used for the CDP, consider trying a pair of Rothwell attenuators, inserted into the preamp's input jacks that are used for the CDP.They are o... | |
| Passive & Tubed pre-amps to power amp at same time? The Sys has a specified input impedance of only 10K, which will be too low for many tube preamps to drive with good results. For example, if like most tube preamps yours has a coupling capacitor at its output, its output impedance is likely to ris... | |
| Passive & Tubed pre-amps to power amp at same time? Not a good idea. The output impedance of the preamp that is not being used will be seen as a load by the preamp that is being used, and most likely at least one and probably both of them would be unable to drive that load with good sonic results.T... | |
| Tube buffers? 08-22-15: MechansThe more compelling reason to own a tube buffer, is to help give component hooked up to "see" an impedance you want the component to see. I am not an EE or anything close, I hope some one with a clearer explanation to chime in. In... | |
| Different Power Cords in same system - ok or bad? As might be expected, opinions on this question will differ. See this thread, which addressed a similar question. My opinion was summarized in the first of my posts in that thread dated 1-5-12, in which I said:01-05-12: AlmargI see no reasonable p... |