almarg
Responses from almarg
| INNER GROOVE DISTORTION It appears that the compliance of your cartridge is either 22 or 28 um/nM, depending on which version of The Voice it is. Either way, those numbers are high enough that if anti-skating is significantly misadjusted you should be able to see visible... | |
| Need help building my late fathers Audio Setup for Family XMAS dinner. ... could I bypass the xlr cables and amplifier all together and plug the pre-amp straight to the speakers or the cd player straight to the speakers? I would definitely not do that. You would be applying a 4 ohm load to the output of the preamp (... | |
| My stereo receiver is a little too bright. Can a cable help me out? Why not use the tone controls on the Pioneer to reduce the brightness? I would expect doing so to be much more effective and much less hit-or-miss than trying to resolve the issue by changing interconnects.Regards,-- Al | |
| Watts and power P.S. to my previous post: The SPL calculator I linked to assumes box-type dynamic speakers, as opposed to planars (i.e., Maggies or electrostatics) or "line source" speakers. In those cases the calculator will typically underestimate the SPLs that... | |
| Watts and power The main usefulness of amplifier power ratings, IMO, is that they can make it possible to determine a reasonable approximation of how much volume (i.e., sound pressure level, or SPL) can be produced by a given amp/speaker combination at a given di... | |
| Buying on Audiogon I don’t understand why exposing one’s IP address to sites that are visited would be any more risky than exposing it to unknown proxy servers in unknown foreign countries. Also, one’s IP address as well as the encrypted data that is used for commun... | |
| Considering an upgrade @sonicjoy, the links don’t work because the second occurrence of "http" in each link (or "https" in some cases, in that position) is not followed by a colon. Also, the first occurrence of "http://" in each link should not be there, although it is ... | |
| New upper trim level Corvette or seven year old used amps? Joyofsound 12-20-2019 Enjoy life in good health with loved ones and do the things that bring you joy, with no regrets. This is probably the best single sentence in the entire thread, IMO, among many others that have been excellent as well. And be... | |
| channel separation P.S: One more thing I noticed in the photo of the underside of the preamp is that at the extreme right there appears to be a bundle of many wires running from the small circuit board near the input jacks at the rear, all the way to the input selec... | |
| channel separation How can the channels bleed into one another when the entire layout is dual mono? The answer, IMO, is that the design is not truly dual mono. If you look at the photos of the preamp at the PL site, especially the photo of the underside, the follow... | |
| How to delete an annoying email? @akg_ca Even though I’ve looked at the actual contents of the PM in question, which Audiogon’s software was clever enough to hide unless it is uncovered via the method I described in my previous post, I can assure you that the computer with which ... | |
| In need of a new bluray player lost without oppo now what ? I recently purchased the Panasonic DP-UB820-K, and I love it! I don’t have any Blu-Ray discs to play on it, yet, but the up-conversion to HiDef that it performs on DVDs works beautifully. Also, good quality YouTube videos, streamed via the player... | |
| How to delete an annoying email? I received two copies of the same PM on October 23rd, which was the day he, she, or it registered here.You can archive the message and/or see its contents by first clicking on the date shown for it in the list of your PMs. The next screen will pr... | |
| Directionality of Loudspeaker Cables The distinction you (the OP) appear to be drawing between "positive current" being sent to the speaker via one conductor, and electrons being returned to the amplifier via the other conductor, is not correct.During half-cycles of the AC waveform i... | |
| Network Switches @uberwaltz,I don’t see any technical flaws in what was said in the review you linked to. But of course the measurements and listening tests the reviewer performed involved one specific DAC, which for example is a very different animal than the Lyn... |