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| subwoofer connection quandry Thanks, Loomis & TLS. There's no technical issue connecting just one output channel, but obviously it won't be sonically optimal with recordings having deep bass content that is not centered (i.e., that is not recorded equally in the two chann... | |
| subwoofer connection quandry Hi Loomis,Thanks for the implicit compliment. See my post here, which explains the concerns, and the rest of the discussion in that thread.The bottom line: It might work ok, and some people do just that, but I don't consider it to be good practice... | |
| Should I Get a DAC ? 03-07-14: Lowrider57I can hear up to 19kHz, but it's actually a small range of high frequencies that bother me.Some promising suggestions have been offered above. It seems to me, though, that what would be an ideal solution for the issue you have ... | |
| Where would you put better power cable? Thanks, Iso. Poetry, and related to that alliteration, have never particularly been my bag. I do, however, generally try to avoid being a nihilistic nabob of negativity. :-)Best regards,-- Al | |
| Where would you put better power cable? Currently I have my pricier cable on my dac being a thicker gauge with better connectors.I doubt that gauge and connector quality would be responsible for any differences that may be perceived between power cords used with a transport and a DAC, a... | |
| Looking for advice on these speakers Hi Bruce,Yes, as Ralph had indicated here the ARC topology you are referring to is indeed a form of feedback. I have no idea, though, if that topology would cause the resulting sonics to be to some degree more SET-like, or if its presumed benefits... | |
| Frequencies addresses by power cords? I don't think that any generally applicable conclusions can be drawn about power regenerators. From both a technical and an anecdotal standpoint their efficacy figures to be dependent upon their own design, the designs of the components they are p... | |
| Looking for advice on these speakers I'll second all of Charles' comments, and Gsm has provided some valuable perspectives as well, IMO. And although I've had no experience with Rogue products, yes I would suspect that going to triode mode on your 180's is shifting their sonics at le... | |
| What's wrong with my almost new speakers? OMG, best thread on here in months! LMAO!Perhaps ever since this one, a little more than a year ago. Arguably the best vague question thread ever.Regards,-- Al :-) | |
| Why not horns? Hi Unsound,That was an emulation attempt that occurred a bit later during the 1980's, with a different Carver amplifier model, that was written up in Stereophile and therefore drew more widespread awareness. Remarkably (or perhaps not), Stereophil... | |
| Fake RRP on cables. A Joke I've see major brand SC's as big as your wrist,MSRP 3K. cut open showing a 22 gauge copper wire covered by 3 inches of cotton batting.Which would certainly cause them to sound DIFFERENT than most other cables, that most likely being a sales strate... | |
| Why not horns? Correction to my previous post: Looking at Issue 10 of "The Audio Critic" I am reminded that the Carver amplifier which was the subject of the preprint was the M-1.5t. The M400t was released subsequently, and was claimed to have been similarly mat... | |
| Why not horns? 03-06-14: KiddmanAczel criticism overblown? I don't know that this would be possible.Here's a guy who never published a particular issue, but write a bogus review for Carver saying that Carver had exactly duplicated the sound of a well known, very... | |
| Looking for advice on these speakers You raise an excellent question, Marek, which I've wondered about myself at times, and I can't add a great deal to the good responses Charles has provided.I don't doubt that for MOST recordings for MOST listeners a robustly designed SET employing ... | |
| Frequencies addresses by power cords? Ralph's comment isn't referring to distortion in the incoming AC voltage. He's referring to the current drawn by the component, which can (especially in the case of power amplifiers) consist of spikes of high amplitude lasting for just a small fra... |