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| Lower Volume from One Monoblock So, you don't think it would match well at all? I wouldn't recommend it. It MIGHT sound fine on most recordings, since what would be adversely affected to the greatest degree is mainly the bottommost octave. But why introduce a known issue into yo... | |
| Can good IC's be used instead of dedicated phono's I would add to the previous comments that I'm not sure if the Signature 2's are shielded. Judging by the photos and description provided at the XLO site for the Signature 3's I don't think the Signature 3's are shielded, which prompts me to raise ... | |
| PS Audio DLIII DAC Inverts Absolute Polarity Sbleam, yes, you could accomplish the polarity correction for the DLIII, without affecting the polarity of playback from the CDP, by having the wiring of pins 2 and 3 interchanged at one end (not both ends) of the XLR cables connecting the DLIII t... | |
| How to Connect Cobalt Cables Speaker Cables? Are you sure they are not banana plugs, as shown here, rather than RCAs?If that's the case, and your amp and speakers do not accept banana plugs, Google "banana to spade adapter" (with the quotes) and you'll probably find something suitable.BTW, a... | |
| Lower Volume from One Monoblock Stickman, I doubt that the 28BSST2 would be a suitable match for your Hovland preamp. As with a number of other Bryston amps, its input impedance is lowish, in this case either 15K or 16.5K for its unbalanced input, depending on what document is l... | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? Joe, thanks very much for your eloquently worded response. And best of luck on your project!Best regards,-- Al | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? Regarding the significance of how pin 1 is wired, I don't find it surprising that it can make a difference, although I would expect the magnitude and character of that difference to be dependent on the designs of the particular components that are... | |
| Replace Silver interconnect cable , please advice I see in another thread you've just started that you are replacing the Focal Electra 1038 Be II speakers (15 3/4 inches deep, 49 3/16 inches tall, 112 pounds) with Focal Maestro Utopias (30 5/16 inches deep, 57 7/8 inches tall, 256 pounds). Hopefu... | |
| Your Favorite AC Outlets Slight correction to my previous post. Revise the last major paragraph to read as follows:Finally, if an IG receptacle were to be installed where there is no conduit or other path for the junction box and the non-isolated metal parts of the outlet... | |
| Your Favorite AC Outlets Mofi, thanks! In answer to your question: First, the Porter Ports are apparently not isolated ground receptacles, because IG receptacles are required to have a small triangle symbol on their face, and are usually orange in color. However, if I und... | |
| Your Favorite AC Outlets Peter, thanks for providing the link. Mofi, as the link indicates an isolated ground receptacle has no internal connection between the safety ground contacts of its two outlets and any surrounding metal structure, or conduit if present. In a home ... | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? 11-14-13: MceljoAlmarg - Good points. Any input on what sonic factors may be effected by the various materials?I have no idea whatsoever :-)I don't doubt that the different metals have a significant tendency towards having different sonic characte... | |
| Good Optical Coaxial cable under $200 ???? What's an optical coax? Sounds like an oxymoron. Do you mean something that converts an electrical signal to an optical signal, conducts it through an optical cable, and then converts it back to an electrical signal?Regards,-- Al | |
| How Does Gold Wire Handle? 11-13-13: Jadem6... gold is not as good a conductor as silver and copper, but conductance has little to do with the sonic result of the cable. +1.For line-level analog interconnect applications, differences in conductivity, and its reciprocal, res... | |
| PS Audio DLIII DAC Inverts Absolute Polarity If you do a google search on XLR-to-RCA adapter, every pin-out diagram I have seen shows Pin 2 to signal pin on RCA and Pins 1 and 3 to the GND shield on the RCA.Yes, most of them are (incorrectly) designed that way. My understanding is that Carda... |