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| Anything as " fast" as SPECTRAL gear? Thanks, Ptss. I appreciate the nice words and the suggestion. And I've noted in the past your frequent advocacy of the importance of addressing power quality and power-related issues.I'll keep your specific suggestion in mind, for a future time. N... | |
| Einstein P.S: A fourth option, which I suspect would be an excellent choice although at a considerably higher price point, would be Steve McCormack's transformer-based SMc Audio Flex Connect. Note though that it provides a gain reduction of 12 db, which sh... | |
| Einstein Although a lot of equipment having balanced outputs can tolerate having the inverted signal (pin 3 per the convention used in the USA and many other countries) grounded, some can't (see this thread for example, although it involved a solid state c... | |
| Which Mc better Mid/High performance in BiAmp set up? The C29 is rated to be able to drive a 10K load, so impedance matching would not be an issue if you chose one of the solid state McIntosh models having a 22K input impedance. Driving 22K and 20K in parallel corresponds to a load impedance that wou... | |
| Which Mc better Mid/High performance in BiAmp set up? What preamp would you be driving these amps with? The reason I ask is that your MC7270 has an input impedance of only 20K, and many of the current generation McIntosh solid state amps have input impedances of 22K, or even 10K in some cases. Drivin... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Oh, well. I just found the more detailed photos here, in which the resistors can clearly be seen to be correct (orange-orange-black-brown). Strange that they look so different in the less detailed photo.Never mind :-)Best regards,-- Al | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Yes, the two green colored resistors going from the TAG strip to each of the 300B sockets.-- Al | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Rebbi, I spent a little while looking at the photo of the underside of the chassis of your build, which you provided on the "Finishing Touches" page of your blog, looking for anything amiss that might account for the problem.Although it's hard to ... | |
| cable advice Margot, approximately what length will each of the cables be? The Clear Day speaker cables which have been suggested have received much praise here and elsewhere, but their very narrow gauge raises caution flags in my mind if the run length is to ... | |
| Anything as " fast" as SPECTRAL gear? Bruce, I agree with everything in your post, and also with Bombaywalla's last post. The one about slew rate, that is; I have no experience with Quiznos :-) Upon careful reading I don't see the two posts as being inconsistent with each other.Best r... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Hi Rob,Although I haven't personally used any SET's, low powered or otherwise, in my own system, I'm sure that would be a wonderful pairing for most listeners with the great majority of recordings, and for many listeners with all of their recordin... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... To be precise, 8 watts is 10log(8/3) = 4.26 db greater than 3 watts, everything else being equal. To put that in perspective, the classic rule of thumb is that a difference of 10 db (10 times as much power) will be subjectively perceived as "twice... | |
| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... Great thread!To the many fine labels which have been mentioned, I would add the series of recordings that were issued on vinyl by the French label Astrée ca. 1973-1985, when that label was under the control of its founder, Michel Bernstein (who ha... | |
| The Audio Critic Regarding Mr. Aczel's credibility as a reviewer, it is perhaps noteworthy that over the years there were in effect two Peter Aczel's. There was the Peter Aczel who published "The Audio Critic" prior to its nearly seven year hiatus between early 19... | |
| Amp and preamp on same outlet? Thanks, Jim. All good points.I would like you to also give an example where the branch circuit wiring is #14 gauge wire which would be a more real world example for the majority of homes in the US where guys are plugging their audio systems into a... |