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| New to classical..looking for recommendations Dvorak's "New World Symphony," Jascha Horenstein conducting the Royal Philharmonic, Chesky CD31. Unfortunately out of print, but available at highish prices.Great music, great performance, and one of the best sounding CDs of a classical symphony I... | |
| New cables for Thorens TD 160 A possibility that occurs to me is that two of the four connections are interchanged somewhere in the cabling, such that the RCA center pins of the left and right channel inputs of the PAS-3 are connected to opposite ends of the same coil in the c... | |
| Power supply to Amplifier 07-27-13: RadniIs there a technical problem to use Regenerated power ? Elizabeth surly says not to use Regenerated supply. Some say it will compromise Dynamics ! Al says he does not see how , and I tend to agree with him .Hi Radni,Note that what I... | |
| Burn in Step up transformer with ipod. 07-26-13: John_tracyAs to the possibility of damaging a solid state phono pre by inputing a 10Vrms signal into a unit that is turned off, get real. If someone can come up with a real example of this, show me the circuit and I will eat my words. A ... | |
| Magico S1 Along with the amp I would imagine speaker cable selection would be critical as well?Yes, that's true, Rja. Speaker cable effects will tend to increase as speaker impedance goes down. Atmasphere among others has made that point in some past thread... | |
| Magico S1 Regarding amplifier sensitivity, I see that the S1 has a nominal impedance of 4 ohms, and presumably its impedance goes lower than that at some frequencies. Unless the variation of its impedance as a function of frequency is particularly small, th... | |
| Power supply to Amplifier Not sure why a couple of the responses seem to assume that the only source of potentially harmful power surges and voltage spikes are nearby lightning strikes.From this article:The most familiar source is probably lightning.... A more common cause... | |
| Differences between cable sound. Boss302, if you are referring to the cable connecting the output of the phono stage to a preamp, and the phono stage can be located close to the preamp, keep in mind that the sonic effects of whatever cable is chosen can be minimized by keeping it... | |
| Burn in Step up transformer with ipod. If I plug the output of the mc transformer to a line input in the preamp( not phono) what load would that supply the mc transformer? That's a good thought, at least potentially. The load impedance will be approximately equal to the specified input... | |
| Burn in Step up transformer with ipod. I would err on the side of caution and not extrapolate from Kevin Carter's practices with the Lundahl transformer to other transformers, which may have higher step-up ratios and be different designs. Putting a 1 volt signal into a 20 db step-up wi... | |
| Power supply to Amplifier If the power supplied by company is really dirty , then why not regenerated power ( from home power plant like P300) which would be much purer ? Why would it not be good for power amp ? Any conflict between oscillator of regenerator and transforme... | |
| What should I upgrade first amp or preamp? Max average volume (never got louder yet, but may try this weekend) is 80-85 dB with 95-101 dB in peaks. Most of the time the meter stays around 12 or moves for a second to 1 pm during peaks. Never stays over 12 for more than two sec.Those numbers... | |
| 5U4G suitable for Dyanco ST-70? FWIW, an older tube manual I have confirms that the filament draw of the 5U4 (all suffixes) is 3 amps. The 5V4 (all suffixes) is 2 amps, and the 5AR4 is 1.9 amps. All at 5 volts.I have no knowledge of the ratings of the ST-70's transformer.Regards... | |
| Why does Amps/Preamps forum have most threads? It always surprises me that most people seem to agree with the notion that speakers make the biggest difference in the sound that is heard, yet at the same time many of those same people consider various upstream components to be more "important."... | |
| Am I totally nuts or just a bit off? 07-23-13: ZenblasterMost audiophiles should see the value in capturing a live performance with each instrument/section in it's own channel. Depends on what is being recorded, though. I would certainly disagree with that statement when it comes to ... |