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| rewiring preamp will it work Thanks, Mingles. That could very conceivably help the situation. The question for Cary then, simply put, is what is the minimum load impedance they recommend for use with the preamp.Regards,-- Al | |
| rewiring preamp will it work Good comments above. As Kal indicated, loading is the concern. And using an external splitter or y-adapter, such as Viridian suggested, will result in loading effects that are identical to those that would result from the internal modification you... | |
| recabling my Stax sr-009 to pure copper cable Try playing your headphones at very high volume (louder than you would want to play them if they were on your head) for a few hours.I've found that my older Stax headphones sound similar to what you are describing if they are not used frequently a... | |
| RCA to balanced Lew, the term "gain" is commonly used to refer to "voltage gain," the ratio of output voltage to input voltage. It is often (although not necessarily) expressed in db, corresponding to 20log(Vout/Vin). So in that sense transformers can supply gain... | |
| Switching preamps in and out Kevin's responsiveness never fails to amaze.Enjoy!-- Al | |
| Switching preamps in and out I agree, Salectric, that the chances of there being a problem in this particular situation appear to be slim. I would note, however, that my own VAC Renaissance 70/70 Mk III amplifier has a 3-position switch controlling its ground configuration. O... | |
| Switching preamps in and out I'm going to put an email in to Kevin Hayes at VAC, and see what he thinks.Mention to him that you are using the unbalanced RCA output of a source component that is solid state, for which the output impedance is 11 ohms.I would expect that in gene... | |
| Switching preamps in and out Salectric, I would pose to you the question I posed to Wolf: Have you ever connected the probe of an oscilloscope to a low or zero voltage circuit point on a piece of equipment, without connecting its ground lead, and looked at the voltage wavefor... | |
| Vandersteen 2WQ Re Halcro's last question, a crossover point is usually (but probably not always) defined as the frequency at which both the low pass and high pass responses are down 3 db. A first order crossover, such as the 2WQ is described as having, will have... | |
| Switching preamps in and out Mike, the output impedance of the MPS-5 is extremely low, as indicated in the third paragraph of JA's measurements in Stereophile, so I don't think that it would have any problem driving all three preamps at once, via splitters or y-adapters, even... | |
| Switching preamps in and out Hey, Wolfie, don't you think that is a bit of a bold statement, considering that you don't even know what components are being used, what the designs of their input stages are, what effect a brief overvoltage might have on their long-term reliabil... | |
| Switching preamps in and out If the interconnections are RCA I don't think it would be a good idea even if the level controls on the power amp are turned all the way down. The problem with RCA connections is that during insertion the signal on the center pin is applied before... | |
| Now That You've Ripped Your Entire Collection... Coressence, it appears that unlike the RAID array Tbg uses your Music Vault server does not utilize drives that are mounted in readily removable trays. So I don't think that his approach is applicable to your situation.If that is correct, I would ... | |
| Most important vinyl component to upgrade first ? IMO the comment by TPReaves pretty much says it all, although Viridian also makes an excellent point in emphasizing the importance of a synergistic match between cartridge and tonearm.I would add that more than a few very experienced audiophiles h... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please On a whole, though, lots of recommendations to apply shielding solutions to digital equipment. Is this because they are sensitive to EMI or because they are big EMI emitters?Mainly because they are big EMI emitters. A notable exception to that per... |