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| What is Low Impendance for an interconnect? Thanks, John.As you probably realize, my reference to the non-mention of capacitance pertained to the section on interconnects, not speaker cables.For the OP's info, generally speaking:1)In the case of analog interconnect cables, capacitance may b... | |
| What is Low Impendance for an interconnect? Can you provide a link to what you are referring to? The section of this page on interconnects seems relevant, but there is no mention of low impedance (just low resistance, which IMO is not as critical for an analog interconnect as Mr. Sanders se... | |
| Length of digital cable? Hi Lynne,I have no thoughts about the HK990 issue.Regarding the ethernet cable, I can recall a couple of members here whom I consider to be particularly credible reporting that upgrading their ethernet cables to SHIELDED CAT6 resulted in significa... | |
| Length of digital cable? Hi Lynne,I agree with Steve's comments about length, and I don't doubt that his cable is an excellent one. As he indicated above and in his Positive Feedback paper, the optimal length is dependent on signal risetimes and falltimes, which will vary... | |
| Can my MC275 power speakers with 91db sensitivity Hi Bruce,I can't envision any way in which that might cause a problem. Inductive kickback occurs because the voltage across an inductance (in this case, inductance in the transformer) is proportional to the amount of inductance multiplied by the r... | |
| Expensive cables/connector and solder 01-10-14: TiofelonThank you for your responses! I still think that the solder acts as a "bottleneck" as current flows throught the cable, i.e. the copper cables have a conductivity of a 100 and the solder of the order of 40 depending on its compos... | |
| Can my MC275 power speakers with 91db sensitivity Jimmy, rather than composing what would be a lengthy and somewhat off topic response to your posts just above (with which I partially agree and partially disagree), I just want to make one point. Your test methodology was potentially harmful to th... | |
| Mcintosh MC275 vs Marantz 8/8b I'm not sure if you are referring to an original Marantz 8 or 8b, or to the reissue that was produced by VAC ca. 1996. I can't comment on the reissue, but assuming you are referring to the original, I can offer some semi-relevant experience.During... | |
| Can my MC275 power speakers with 91db sensitivity I have no experience with the MC275, but from a technical standpoint I suspect that there is some validity to Polk432's point. The current (Mark VI) version of that amp has a specified damping factor of 22, which is unusually high for a tube amp. ... | |
| Can my MC275 power speakers with 91db sensitivity I couldn't find an impedance curve for the Olympica III, so I'm not sure. But given its 4 ohm nominal impedance and sensitivity that is similar to the Cremona (1 db is a trivial difference, and in this case is in the wrong direction), without furt... | |
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| Can my MC275 power speakers with 91db sensitivity Could you recommend a such a speaker?Some of the following may be significantly more expensive than the Cremona, and/or unlikely to be frequently available used, but fwiw most or all of the models offered by the following manufacturers would be su... | |
| Can my MC275 power speakers with 91db sensitivity I see that the amp is rated to deliver 150 watts into 2, 4, or 8 ohms in paralleled mono mode. So adding a second amp might very well be beneficial, but given the expense and the wait that would be involved, as well as some remaining uncertainty, ... | |
| Can my MC275 power speakers with 91db sensitivity First, as a point of information, keep in mind that since 2.83 volts into 4 ohms corresponds to 2 watts, the speakers will just put out 88 db for an input of 1 watt, at 1 meter. That is particularly significant in the case of a tube amp such as th... | |
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