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| An Introduction to new member Gentlemen, I would call to your attention the following facts, from which you may draw your own conclusions:1)A Google search of "Annalisa Viviana" + "utsource" reveals that in the recent past essentially identical posts have been made to approxim... | |
| Any good FM tuners around for less than $200? I had an FM-90X about 20 years ago, when it was about 35 years old. I was very pleased with its sound, and I remember it fondly. I did not do any realignment on it, and I suspect that it had never been realigned. At most I tested the tubes and rep... | |
| Audio Research pre-amps? If you haven't already done so, my suggestion is that before replacing anything you try the 4 ohm taps on the amplifiers, even though the speakers are nominally rated at 8 ohms.I couldn't find an impedance vs. frequency curve for the Boxer, but sm... | |
| Why not horns? I read TAS religiously from the late 1970's until around the time the world wide web emerged in the mid-1990's. I also read pretty much all of the other major audio-related publications of the time, and a number of the minor ones, representing pre... | |
| MC Step Up Math Lew's post reminds me that one thing that should be described in this thread is how to convert SUT gain that is specified in db into turns ratio.The relevant relations are:Voltage out of SUT (Vout) divided by Voltage in (Vin) = turns ratio.db = 20... | |
| Cary SLP98P not working with Audio Research VT100 SE = Single Ended = UnbalancedAlthough per this page your MkIII version of the VT100 provides a balanced/single-ended switch on the rear, rather than requiring shorting jumpers on the XLR input connectors when the RCA input connectors are being us... | |
| Cary SLP98P not working with Audio Research VT100 Hi guys,The power amp has no way of "knowing" whether the output of the preamp is in or out of phase with the input of the preamp. The statement in the manual about not using a phase inverting preamp makes no sense to me, unless they are envisioni... | |
| CD player - power amplifier direct connection Clever thought, Michael (Swampwalker). I saw that movie too :-)Best,-- Al | |
| MC Step Up Math Your calculations look correct to me, Dfel.As you've found, and as might be expected, 47K vs. 50K makes little difference, and is probably not worth correcting for. Imprecision in cartridge output voltage specs, resulting in part because at least ... | |
| Any good FM tuners around for less than $200? Given that you have an interest in vintage tube tuners, and that your listening needs are "occasional," and that you would prefer not to spend more than $200, you may want to consider looking for one of the many such tuners that were made in the l... | |
| MC Step Up Math Well said, Lew and Bob. Best regards,-- Al | |
| CD player - power amplifier direct connection Don't do it!Based on a quick look at the specs, it appears that on high volume musical peaks the voltage sent into the amplifier by the PCD3 would be approximately twice as much as the voltage that is required to drive the amplifier to its maximum... | |
| How hot is First Watt? The manuals for some or all of the First Watt models, which are available at the website, indicate power consumption in the list of specs. For example the SIT-2 (rated at 10 watts output per channel into 8 ohms) is indicated as consuming 200 watts... | |
| Need help building an amplifier-headphone adapter I did a quick Google search and I see that the Shindo Apetite has no tape or other line-level output; it has only one set of output terminals per channel, rather than multiple taps; it is rated at 15 watts into 8 ohms; and it certainly has an outp... | |
| MC Step Up Math Dfel, I'm not sure that I can add much in answer to your recent questions that hasn't already been said. If you haven't already seen it, I would highly recommend that you take a look at the writeup by Bobsdevices for which he provided a link in hi... |