almarg
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| Wrong speakers A point of information that some of the respondents don't appear to be aware of: Based on one of the OP's previous threads it appears that his amp is Einstein's "Light In The Dark" model, which is not a tube OTL and in fact uses a solid state outp... | |
| Tone Controls can be so nice. Very nicely done writeup, Nonoise, as are many of the responses IMO. I particularly enjoyed Trelja's witty post.That said, as I see it there is no right or wrong when it comes to this issue, and the tradeoffs that come into play involve a great ma... | |
| Happy music... Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 (the "Classical Symphony") would certainly be high on my list.Regards,-- Al | |
| Who makes 12-02-13: BifwynneAl or Ralph, if you can simplify or clarify what I just said, I'm sure I and the other readers would appreciate your edits.You said it all clearly and well as far as I am concerned, Bruce, aside from a minor miswording that I sus... | |
| Who makes The Nelson Pass amps I referred to earlier that act essentially as current sources and therefore have very high output impedance are listed at his "First Watt" site here. (His amps that are marketed under the Pass Labs name are of course voltage p... | |
| Who makes Excellent responses by Bruce and Bombaywalla.Bob R. adds a good point also. During the 1980s and 1990s Bob Carver designed some Carver Corporation and later Sunfire Corporation solid state amplifiers that were intended to emulate tube amplifier ch... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapter Dilemma Peter (Pbnaudio), thanks very much for your comment, which I reciprocate :-)11-30-13: Rlb61Also, to Elizabeth ... thanks for validating that practical application can trump theory. For a minute there, I was beginning to doubt myself because the th... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapter Dilemma There is no way to provide a definitive answer without knowing how the output circuits of the preamp are designed. But it is certainly plausible that the sound could be significantly different for the two connection arrangements, for reasons that ... | |
| Connection help I was wondering if I used Y connectors at the power amp and ran ics from both the pre and HT receiver to the amp that way if it would work better than a speaker switchIt's generally not a good idea to connect two line-level outputs together, even ... | |
| Cable suggestion What strikes me most is that between the computer, its power supply and power cord, the "regular USB cable," your high powered "hybrid Class D" amplifiers, and the QB9, you've got a lot of things in the setup that can generate RFI and digital and ... | |
| What is the missing element? 11-26-13: Zd542Does anyone know if jitter can be introduced in the recording process? If so, is there a way to deal with it?Good question. The answer to the first question is yes, in the sense that the amount of jitter introduced in the recording ... | |
| Crown D-75a as Monoblocks - Polarity Question? ... he said that a bridged amp addressed the waveform a bit differently than an amp operating in stereo? And therefore, that imaging might naturally be affected, and thus a bridged set up might not be best for me after I assured him I was an old s... | |
| What is the missing element? 11-24-13: CerrotThere is no usb on the planet that has lower jitter than an spdif output-it is impossible. Remember, USB transmits data in packets, not streams, which is why it is so poor. Music should be transmitted in data streams, not packets. ... | |
| Crown D-75a as Monoblocks - Polarity Question? Hi CW,Nice to see you back here.The quote from "Greg Taylor" is addressing how to correct an issue of having the two channels out of phase with respect to each other, i.e., an issue of "relative phase." It does NOT sound like you are facing that i... | |
| Can I run 4 ohms into 8 ohm speakers? OK, so it appears that we can most likely eliminate the subs as having anything to do with the problem, unless something really subtle is going on. And it appears that the amp channels are being paralleled, not bridged. That can be done with some ... |