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| Top resistors 05-26-13: Rodman99999Testing capacitors for outer foil, has shown me how much influence a body can have regarding induced noise. Exactly! And my suspicion is that if he were not holding the resistor in his fingers, he would not have had enough sig... | |
| Top resistors Regarding the oscilloscope waveforms shown at the link Eherdian provided, I'm not sure how they prove anything about anything. It seems to me that the differences shown for the two orientations mainly involve interplay between the following factor... | |
| Fuses that matter. Hi Vance,I don't doubt that these companies COULD replicate the protection characteristics of the stock fuse. However, different designs of just about any electronic product differ in terms of their design goals and philosophies, and how the trade... | |
| Fuses that matter. Thanks, Vance. Here is the datasheet. (I assume you meant 5 x 20 mm, not 5 x 22). Looks like the breaking capacity/interrupting rating (related, as I said, to assuring that blowing which occurs under fault conditions occurs in a safe manner) is sp... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss 05-24-13: Mapman... I believe Lincoln Walsh used his engineering experience with radar systems in WW2 to get dynamic speakers right while the rest of the world missed the boat. Pretty radical.Interestingly, as far as I am aware he was also the onl... | |
| Fuses that matter. +1 to Metralla's comment.Vance, I'm not certain that the Classe person you spoke to was giving you a precise answer. Breaking capacity (also referred to as "interrupting rating") has nothing to do with the likelihood that inrush current at turn-on... | |
| Digital vs Interconnect Cables - Difference? 05-22-13: Mtruong34I thought for digital, XLR connectors are for AES/EBU standard and RCA/BNC are for SPDIF, not balanced vs unbalanced?We are almost saying the same thing.The electrical form of S/PDIF (as distinguished from its optical form, whic... | |
| Digital vs Interconnect Cables - Difference? Excellent elaboration by Kijanki, with which I agree 100%. An important bottom line point in his post is that a "cable that is perfect in one system might work poorly in another."Marakanetz, any designer of an electronic system (audio or otherwise... | |
| Best Rock Song Of ALL TIME? The Doors -- "Light My Fire" (the full 7 minute version). One reason it gets my vote, as I indicated in the current "Ray Manzarek RIP" thread, is that his keyboard work during the long instrumental segment I find to be simply amazing.Regards,-- Al | |
| Digital vs Interconnect Cables - Difference? Can someone explain the difference between digital and interconnect cables?A digital cable is a form of interconnect cable, that is designed to conduct digital signals. Another form of interconnect cable is one that is designed to conduct analog s... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss 05-21-13: BifwynneAl, kinda curious about the variable negative feedback switch you mentioned. Out of curiosity, if you were driving a speaker with a bumpy impedance curve, how much "smoothing" would be achieved if you used NF?? For example, if yo... | |
| Ray Manzarek RIP A while back there was a thread here entitled "Best Rock Song of All Times, "not the best written or the best musical complexity but the one that [best] represents the rock."I nominated "Light My Fire" (the full 7 minute version, of course). Ray's... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss Hi Charles,Yes, the VAC Renaissance 70/70 Mk III has a six-position switch for each channel which, according to the manual, allows the amount of feedback to be selected between 0, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5 db (the markings on the panel omit the ... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss Excellent comments by all, IMO. Charles, re the volume levels I listen at, Wolf's comment that:05-21-13: Wolf_garciaHearing issues come from sustained high levels, and unlike something like a gunshot next to your head, a short musical burst (from ... | |
| high power tube amps vs ss Hi Matt,I have no experience with Dynaudio speakers, but my instinct would be to proceed with caution before going to tube amplification with them. In addition to the comments by Ralph and Mapman just above, I would emphasize that high quality hig... |