almarg
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| Can I run 4 ohms into 8 ohm speakers? John (Jmcgrogan2), note that his reference to the subs appears to indicate that they contain their own 500 watt amplifier. Assuming that is the case, and if the subs are driven by the EAR amps via speaker-level inputs, the subs' inputs will presen... | |
| Does Anybody Know This Tonearm? Thanks much for the very nice offer, Al (Rodman), but I'll pass at this time. I'm using the phono section of a vintage Mark Levinson ML-1 preamp, accessed via tape outs, as my phono stage, and it is configured with low gain MM-compatible internal ... | |
| Does Anybody Know This Tonearm? Thanks very much, Al (Rodman)! I'll definitely keep that in mind for the future. Looks like its weight and compliance would make it an excellent match for this arm, in contrast to many other LOMCs.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Does Anybody Know This Tonearm? I've been happily using a Magnepan Unitrac I for nearly 30 years, and I have no plans to switch to anything else in the foreseeable future. For the most part, I've used it with Grace F9E series cartridges, first the F9E, then the F9E Ruby, then th... | |
| Your Favorite AC Outlets How can a person form an opinion on something that they have not experienced? It is then no longer an informed opinion, it is a wild guess.Or it could be based on technical understanding, technical analysis, or (hopefully well trained) technical i... | |
| digital cable length The more important of the two cables will be the one between the Upsampler and the DAC, since the signal is reclocked in the Upsampler. There's no way to be certain what the optimal length would be, because among other things it is dependent on th... | |
| Can good IC's be used instead of dedicated phono's Salectric, my guess is that the different grounding wires probably made a difference in the amount and/or frequency characteristics of ultrasonic or RF energy entering the phono stage. Either by making a difference in the effectiveness of the shie... | |
| External drives Sfar, I of course agree with your excellent comments. But I think that what she is referring to is the optical drive that is used for ripping, not to the hard drive that is used for storage and playback.If so, IMO the answer depends on what rippin... | |
| Replace Silver interconnect cable , please advice Excellent advice from Tboooe, IMO. Also, I see in your system description thread that you'll be moving to a different house in a few months. Hopefully that will provide a much better acoustic environment for the speakers than you have now. I would... | |
| Impedance Matching ... perhaps Al and/or Ralph can speak to whether inserting an impedance buffer between the pre and amp could compromise the signal.Certainly inserting an additional active stage into the signal path to correct an impedance incompatibility can invo... | |
| Can good IC's be used instead of dedicated phono's Hi Lew,We're both right, as I see it. But the basic underlying point I wanted to convey in my response is that if low capacitance is required for a particular application, focus should not be placed exclusively or even primarily on unshielded desi... | |
| Impedance Matching At the bargain price I almost wonder if it would be worth picking up a good SS pre to drive them and just keeping the Hovland too! Another possible approach, although it would result in having an additional active stage in the signal path, would b... | |
| Can good IC's be used instead of dedicated phono's By the way, shielding adds capacitance.Although, as is usually the case in audio, there are a multitude of variables that affect the bottom line of a given parameter. Blue Jeans LC-1, for example, even though it is NOT specifically intended for ph... | |
| Impedance Matching Ralph, thanks for chiming in. I had brought this issue up in another of the OP's current threads. The preamp in question is a Hovland HP-100 with the moving coil option. Its output impedance, per JA's measurements in Stereophile, is 2.4K (presumab... | |
| Tube Rolling in the Allnic LS-3000 Rleff, congratulations on the purchase!I have no knowledge of those tube types either, but FWIW an older Sams Tube Substitution Handbook I have lists the following equivalents for two of those types:E810F: 77886485: 6AH6WA7233: Not listed.Best reg... |