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| Electrical Ground to Water Pipe, No Earth Ground Great answer by Jim, as usual! Regarding ...Does not having an earth ground to my panel all these years cause a negative effect on the various audio systems I've had? Does this affect things like bass weight, or solidity of the image etc?From a te... | |
| What makes a better phono cable ? Really nice equipment you've got there, Frank! Given its quality and price range, and after reading through the writeup John provided on the Stealth Hyperphono cable, although that cable is certainly not inexpensive I think his recommendation is w... | |
| What makes a better phono cable ? 03-13-15: RoscoeiiiI'd recommend taking advantage of the Cable Company's lending library of cables if you don't have the ability to audition in your system locally. Cables are so system dependent.+1. Excellent suggestion by Roscoe. Also, Frank, it... | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? 03-12-15: StringreenNo one can control the a/s that's needed or preferred because the force is constantly changing.In my experience (as described earlier), all of it involving MM and MI cartridges, as I had mentioned a change in anti-skating force... | |
| XLR Interconnect as digital cable I'd be very surprised if any damage were to result. The only way I can envision damage occurring would be if the cable connected one of the two signals in the balanced signal pair (which would be on XLR pins 2 and 3) to ground (XLR pin 1), which w... | |
| What makes a better phono cable ? 03-12-15: SyntaxSilver wire (silver can carry 6% more information than copper and 16% more than gold)03-12-15: DkarmeliSyntax, where did you get this from? Its nonsense.03-12-15: SyntaxEducate yourselfDavid (Dkarmeli), Syntax has made that stateme... | |
| Jeff Rowland I'm uncertain as to how well connecting a sub to the DAC's RCA outputs would work. It would certainly function. But without clear information as to the design of the DAC's output circuits I would have some concern that doing so might have at least... | |
| XLR Interconnect as digital cable Unless it is explicitly indicated that the particular cable is designed to provide the nominally 110 ohm characteristic impedance that is necessary for compliance with AES/EBU standards, or it is at least indicated that the cable is suitable for d... | |
| Jeff Rowland Glad I was able to help, Ricred, and thanks for the very nice acknowledgment. Enjoy!Best regards,-- Al | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? Thanks, Lew. FWIW, the procedure I use is:1)I increase anti-skating until deflection to the left (toward the center of the record) becomes just barely perceptible. This is done with the stylus positioned approximately in the middle of the rotating... | |
| Jeff Rowland 03-10-15: BombaywallaThen, in bridged mode if each amp in the stereo module is outputting 13.2Arms that total is 26.4Arms which is greater than the 21.1Arms that the integrated SMPS is capable of supplying!! So, is the amp really able to output 70... | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? 03-09-15: Adeep42To all posters: Thanks for all the very interesting responses. Think I'll stick with HW and the no AS crowd. At least for the time being. I am looking for the Telarc Omnidisc and might re-evaluate then.Adeep, I note that you are u... | |
| Jeff Rowland Thanks, Bombaywalla. I see what you're saying. The module datasheet shows that when it is operated with 120 VAC it is rated to deliver 600 watts into 2.7 ohms in stereo mode, although with just one channel driven. That corresponding to an output c... | |
| Running All Your Cables with The same Brand This question has been discussed at length in a number of past threads here, and as is often the case in audio opinions diverge and there has been no consensus. See this thread, and the links to other threads which I provided in my post in that th... | |
| External Drive Help I've used the red, blue and green ones, but not the black and purple ones. The black ones are supposed to be the best, but given my experience with all the other ones, I'm not anxious to try them.ZD, thanks for your inputs. The positive experienc... |