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| Anyone else making their own cables? 01-26-15: PkoegzIf someone sees flaws or can articulate it better please do. Here's my take:Single-ended by definition means the same thing as unbalanced. So a single-ended cable or connection cannot be balanced.It is possible for a balanced conne... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? 01-26-15: MapmanThe better highly efficient Class D amps out there today, and some are quite good, can deliver 500w/ch or more for comparable cost to lower power Traditional less efficient Class A/B or certainly class A amps, tube or SS.So you can... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? Newbee, thanks for pointing that out.Regarding high efficiency speakers, I think that the point Minorl was making and that I was emphasizing would become clearer and less controversial if the reference was to highER efficiency speakers, as opposed... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? You may not need a stupidly expensive amp for your pre-amp because the speakers you have are extremely efficient, don't need massive power and interact well with your amp, so you can go with a very low power, lesser expensive (not all low power am... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? My opinion is that a general purpose answer can't be defined. It depends on the specific components that are being considered, and also on how synergistically they match up with the speakers, the source components, and each other. I would emphasiz... | |
| How to split a signal to inlcude subwoofer? If the sub does not provide speaker level inputs, or if the good suggestion by Mesch is not feasible for any other reason, let us know the make and model number of the preamp, the sub, and the two amps. Hopefully we will then be able to determine ... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Thanks very much, Roscoe. Yes, I noticed that the HDP-5 has the "low noise" switching power supply, presumably similar if not identical to the one used in the PreMate, rather than the linear supply used in the -4. Just speculating, but perhaps the... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? A'gon audio pal here :-)Roscoe, congratulations on the purchase! As Bruce (Bif) indicated, I'm looking forward to reading of your experiences.My plan is to purchase the recently released HDP-5 in March or thereabouts, although the HDP-4 would no d... | |
| Starting afresh with a Linn Sondek LP12... Annika, welcome to Audiogon!The choice of a suitable amplifier will of course be highly dependent on your choice of speakers. Since you appear to be gravitating toward relatively low powered tube amplification, it would probably make sense to choo... | |
| Please help a rookie; 8-year-old laptop music serv Kijanki, thanks :-)Actually, the OP had submitted a separate but very similar post which I responded to here, before seeing this thread.Best regards,-- Al | |
| help a rookie; 8-year-old laptop music server died The first thing I would try is pressing the F10 key repeatedly and rapidly when you turn on the computer, and seeing if you can then get anything to appear on the display. See "Accessing the BIOS Setup Menu" on this page.The next thing I would try... | |
| What's your experience with fine phono preamp s ? This gear is the Aurum Acoustics Integris CDP system. Input impedance is listed as 25 kOhms unbalanced, 48 kOhms balanced.The balanced input impedance is actually indicated as 48K per phase, which would be 96K based on the more usual convention of... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Bruce (Bifwynne), +1 to your post just above, and to George's reference to EPDR and his characterization of the S-5 as a challenging load.Regarding the on-going disagreements about the suitability of tube amps for driving Martin-Logans and other e... | |
| What's your experience with fine phono preamp s ? Lew (Lewm), I just noticed that the description of the EMIA phono stage here indicates that for an LOMC it would require an external SUT or other step-up device. Is that correct, or is the web page out of date?Best regards,-- Al | |
| What's your experience with fine phono preamp s ? P.S. to my previous post: If the cable length that is necessary to connect the phono stage to the preamp is particularly long, say 12 feet or more, that should be indicated as well. Phono stages having high output impedances (e.g. 2 or 3K) at high... |