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| Recommend Class a Amp Wow! Congratulations, John. I seem to recall that you were thinking of the Ulysses a while back. Hope you are enjoying them as much as I do mine!And re the INT-30A, I **would** expect your experience with it to be likely to have relevance to the X... | |
| Recommend Class a Amp 03-28-15: Abrew19If you value bass quality, ignore what Tjassoc wrote above regarding the low wattage Pass full class A amps. While I haven't owned the xa30.5 I do own the older Aleph 5 which is a 60wpc full class A model. AND I also own the newer... | |
| Two speakers one amp? First, I doubt that will result in acceptable sonics, in part because you will have the same sounds arriving at your ears at two different times, resulting in what are called Comb Filtering Effects.But yes, that can be done without causing damage,... | |
| Balanced interconnects and non-differential amps If one of the generally accepted benefits of long runs of balanced interconnects between a preamp and an amp is noise rejection, is this still true whether or not the amp in question is a differential unit?Yes, provided that the driver and receive... | |
| Recommend Class a Amp Good call by Czarivey and Bombaywalla. I dug out the original Stereophile issue to see if there was a manufacturer's comment in response to what JA had to say, and there was not.To the OP: If I were you I would forget about pure class A operation ... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Drewan & Ptss, thanks for your latest comments, which are valued as always.Pete, a point to keep in mind is that a downside, or at least a potential downside, of the extraordinarily wide bandwidth of your Spectral equipment can be expected to ... | |
| Best upgradable system components for under $6K 03-26-15: RlwainwrightI hear you, Al, about the Ayre preamps. However, their lowest priced preamp, from what I could see on their website, is right at his stated budget, leaving no money for an amplifier. But I may be wrong about the pricing, plea... | |
| Best upgradable system components for under $6K 03-26-15: MeschI like the approach recommended by ZD. I am surprised he didn’t suggest getting the Ayre preamp 1st and use your NAD as the amp until ready to buy newer speakers. I would think he would think it would make the biggest improvement in... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Yes, an excellent post by Bombaywalla, and an excellent response by Michael (Swampwalker). Thanks, gentlemen!I am in full agreement with both posts, aside from what I believe is an inadvertent and minor misstatement in Bombaywalla's post:A linear ... | |
| WINDOWS 10 ISSUES Hi Tim,Good comment by ZD.Regarding the deleted 8.1 partition, if in fact that existed as a partition that was separate from the W10 partition, as opposed to having been in a partition that was overwritten by the W10 installation, you might be abl... | |
| 2 runs of wires or 1 run w/ jumpers 03-24-15: SoixThe only physical advantage I've heard in doubling the cable is a decrease in capacitance, which in theory should be a positive but I've no idea if it's enough to be meaningful or if it may have anything to do with the differences I ... | |
| How to convert TV optical output to XLR If I'm not mistaken the AX-7e only provides analog inputs (on both its XLR and its RCA input connectors), not digital inputs. So you would have to connect an optical cable from the TV to a DAC, to convert the digital signal to analog, and connect ... | |
| Funny and clever Axpona Ad Ct0517, I enjoyed your wittily written post. And thanks for not shooting the messenger who caused you to lose the bet :-)To complete the descriptions of who's who in the video, as Geoff indicated the fellow playing the husband is a professional ac... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Dan (Drubin), the main reason for the cautions about not operating tube amps without a load is unrelated to magnetization. The concern is mainly the possibility of damage to the insulation of the windings in the transformer, and possibly also to t... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Thanks, Pete. I appreciate your comment, and the nice words. And Bombaywalla, thanks also for your good comments. I would place myself somewhere in the middle ground between being overly trusting and overly cynical, and I try to judge each case on... |