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| PS Audio DLIII DAC Inverts Absolute Polarity So I then decided to enlist the help of Rob Fritz at Audio Art Cable to make a custom XLR-to-RCA cable that makes pin 3 from the XLR connector as the Hot signal on the RCA instead of Pin 2.As I was waiting for the custom cable, I decided to break ... | |
| Anti static guns But to all: any thoughts on the unit in the original post? Do you think it would work?I'd be surprised if it did. Too many unknown variables are involved. It's designed to emit sparks, not to emit and disperse ions. If it does emit ions, the long... | |
| Have you ever skinned a speaker cable? As a point of information, two 10 gauge wires in parallel are equivalent in terms of resistance to 7 gauge, not 5 gauge. I believe that for any gauge a factor of two change in resistance (which would occur if two identical wires were paralleled) i... | |
| System too bassy - Primaluna & Usher 11-10-13: DeetotheveeBut I do know that the changes from biwiring were immediate and impressive ....To be sure it's clear to others who may read this, as I see it the improvement was almost certainly due mainly to the use of different amplifier ta... | |
| System too bassy - Primaluna & Usher 11-10-13: NewbeeAl, FWI you can change modes on the fly without risk so A/B comparisons are easy. Thanks, Newbee. Since the design of your amp has a lot of commonality with the design of the OP's, I'll defer to your comment.Best regards,-- Al | |
| System too bassy - Primaluna & Usher Glad I was able to help. One more thing to try, if you haven't already, would be running the amp in triode mode, rather than ultralinear mode (which according to the manual the amp automatically defaults to when turned on). I don't know if with yo... | |
| System too bassy - Primaluna & Usher Deetothevee, the link in your last post requires a Dropbox signin. It apparently needs to be done differently for the pix to be visible to the general public.Regards,-- Al | |
| System too bassy - Primaluna & Usher I was looking at some speaker cables that were " bi-wired". They were one set of cable with one end having the normal - & + ends and the other being bi-wired, having the 4 ends. This would not be utilizing the advantages of what you're suggest... | |
| System too bassy - Primaluna & Usher Ok I think I got it. So the only terminal that will have more then one wire would be the 0 terminal at back of amp. Correct?Yes!To be sure it's clear, let's just consider the situation where you are NOT using cables that are specifically intended ... | |
| System too bassy - Primaluna & Usher IMO neither changing speaker cables nor biwiring would in themselves be likely to result in significant improvement, given particularly the short lengths of your speaker cables (most relevant cable parameters and most cable effects are proportiona... | |
| New to turntables - does this gear combo work? With great respect for my learned cyber-friends and fellow Nutmeggers Doug and Michael (Swampwalker), whose formidable expertises lie in things other than EE stuff, I would point out that the 9.5 volt maximum output spec on the Phono Box is being ... | |
| Replace Silver interconnect cable , please advice Metralla, good job spotting the system description Pelo has just added, but the link you provided is to someone else's system. The correct link is:http://forums.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vopin&1383620370The pix in your system description are ... | |
| Replace Silver interconnect cable , please advice Just to be sure nothing simple is being overlooked, are you sure that the new speaker cables are connected with the same phasing? If the cable on one of the two channels has + and - reversed relative to how the cable on the other channel is connec... | |
| Is Coincident Statement Phono pre-amp an overkill Hi Lew,Yes, it is described as using a SUT, and I'd imagine that it could be bypassed internally and a suitable resistive termination put in place. But it seems clear from the description that internal modifications would be required, and I doubt ... | |
| Is Coincident Statement Phono pre-amp an overkill Essrand, just as with moving magnet cartridges, the Sumiko Blue Point Evo III moving coil cartridge is not compatible with the Coincident Statement Phono Stage. Its output is too high (2.5 mv), and it requires a 47K load, which the Coincident does... |