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| Wall Outlet Oyaide, Furutek, Wattgate, and others Regarding the comments about resistance and voltage drop, as I see it a couple of things should be kept in mind:1)In the "New Heavyweight Contender" link which Dave provided, the highest resistance shown for any of the receptacles listed is 2.7 mi... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Good questions by Mapman a few posts back, IMO, and excellent answers by Larryi, Charles, and Bill (Grannyring). Regarding the comments about theory vs. practice, as a technically oriented person, and one who also has read a great many posts by th... | |
| Coincident Linestage vs CJ CT5 or Allnic L-3000 06-12-14: Charles1dadI called Grant Fidelity today and left a message, no reply yet. I'll send an email ....Charles, there is a very understandable, and very sad, reason for the lack of response. See their website.Best,-- Al | |
| power cables - not in the signal path? Geoff, no, I'm not referring to absorption and scattering. I'm referring simply to a matter of geometry. A radio antenna, a radar antenna, a flashlight, etc., will not radiate energy in a beam that remains at precisely/exactly/100.00000000% the sa... | |
| power cables - not in the signal path? 06-12-14: CbozdogGeoffkait and Almarg - agree with both, with the small exception that attenuation of radiation takes place in any medium that is not vacuum to various degrees depending on medium and frequency (with the most striking example being... | |
| power cables - not in the signal path? 06-11-14: Cbozdog... EM radiation decays rapidly with distance...06-11-14: Geoffkait RF waves! to take an example do not attenuate much over distance, traveling at the speed of light or close to it.You're both right, sort of. I believe that the ma... | |
| High level Subwoofer connection IMPORTANT POINT: As with many ARC power amps, the "common"/O/-/negative output terminal of your VT-100 MkII is NOT ground. The 4 ohm output terminal is what is grounded. Looking at the schematic for your amp at the ARC Database site it appears tha... | |
| audiphile power cords Tony (TSL49) is correct, as usual. 20 paralleled 23 gauge wires are equivalent to 10 gauge; 20 paralleled 24 gauge wires are equivalent to 11 gauge. Keith (Audiolabyrinth) had indicated earlier that 24 gauge wires are used in the Cobalt, so based ... | |
| power cables - not in the signal path? 06-10-14: StevechamEVERYTHING IS IN THE SIGNAL PATH"Everything," so to speak, can AFFECT the signal path, to one degree or another. For example, turning on a dimmer switch in a different part of the house from the listening room can introduce suff... | |
| VTL Verses ARC, which is better? First, when you referred to the "VT 150" I suspect you meant to refer to the VTL ST-150. Let us know if that is not a correct assumption.Second, and consistent with Mapman's comment about system synergy, in the case of the power amp it seems to me... | |
| power cables - not in the signal path? In a don quixotesque attempt I'd like to turn this perception around: the AC is 100% in the signal path - more so that the actual low-level signal that gets amplified, and I think I found the simple words to clarify this.The low-level signal is ac... | |
| Caps going out?? Whats this noise... ZD, he's using a Lightspeed, which attenuates via light-controlled resistors. When he turns off the preamp, power is removed from the LEDs which control the resistors.Bruce (B_limo), what I would suggest is that you verify that no significant nois... | |
| audiphile power cords 06-06-14: AtmasphereRegarding the readings that Shunyata had in that article, I think it would be very interesting to test some common cords on there, like certain models of Belden. I think that heavy gauge is usually a good place to start- instal... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system Mapman, thank you kindly for the nice words. I haven't ever experimented with any kind of passive preamp, or with direct drive from a source component, because in my case it would pretty much be a non-starter functionally. I have five sources, hav... | |
| Problem with CJ Phono Pre and Dynavector MKIIXX2 If it seems like you are not too far away from having adequately high gain and adequately low noise, changing the 12AX7's in the TEA2 to tubes that have been carefully selected by a reputable vendor to have particularly low noise might get you the... |