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| Most annoying song, period. Noble100 10-10-2019... I discovered he was actually singing "Bird, bird, bird, bird is the word".Hi Tim,Thanks for your comment about "Surfin’ Bird," and for the link. The lyric is actually "bird is a word," at least in most places in the song, wh... | |
| Most annoying song, period. I always thought of "Surfin' Bird" as a satire, and found it to be kind of funny in a likable sort of way. Although I don't know how serious or satirical it was intended to be.Among songs that are well known and were huge commercial successes, my... | |
| Correct Way to Invert Phase Yogiboy is correct. Rewiring the preamp-to-amp cables such that + is connected to - and vice versa would connect the signals on the preamp’s + outputs (the RCA center pins) to the amp’s ground, which of course would not work too well :-)If the pre... | |
| Top vintage receivers vs. modern high-end equipment I agree with the others who have suggested that to do justice to this classic speaker you consider classic tube electronics, which you appear to be receptive to based on your second post. The Paragon was of course designed prior to the advent of s... | |
| The imperfect amp: Pass or Ayre? Specs don’t mean crap, it’s all in what you hear and like. A lot of audiophiles feel that way. However as I see it specs (and measurements) can often provide a lot of value in two ways:1) By allowing one to identify and RULE OUT from consideratio... | |
| The imperfect amp: Pass or Ayre? IMO THD measurements are among the most useless of specs, and I would by no means consider amps having relatively high THD numbers, compared to competitive products, to be ones that "from a technical perspective, don’t do very well" (quoting from ... | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs While I suppose there may be some poor designs that could be damaged working into a 100 ohm load, eventually if not sooner, in general I would expect the combination of the 100 ohm load and the output impedance of the component itself to limit the... | |
| Would an Audioquest Cobalt feed my integrated amp without clipping? I agree with Miller that clipping will not be an issue.If you run the software volume control(s) in the laptop at max you **might** find yourself using the Marantz’ volume control at undesirably low settings, though, depending on the efficiency of... | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs If you want to learn more try this, then report back:1. Solder a 100 ohm resistor across a working input, not an unused input.2. Listen.3. Post your findings here. Keep in mind that most source components and most preamps and line stages cannot... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers ... surely the more accurate the amp is, the more accurately it will pass on the signal...therefore what REL is basically stating is correct. Hi Davey,My point in that regard was that the more accurate the amp is the more similar the sonics of it... | |
| Favorite cover? When I was composing my post in the ongoing "One Hit Wonder" thread I was reminded of the cover of "Harlem Nocturne" by The Viscounts, which was released in both 1959 and 1966. A totally unique and IMO fantastic cover of an old jazz standard. http... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Regarding line-level vs. speaker-level, in the specific case of speaker-level connections to Richard’s amp it seems to me to be possible that the less than ideal nature of the ground path/signal return path between the subs and the amp (with the A... | |
| Schiit setup troubleshooting What had you been connecting the black (ground) wire in the Speakon cable to?The manual for your sub does not provide a specific recommendation for connecting a single sub to monoblock amps having balanced/differential outputs, stating that they "... | |
| To monoblock or not to monoblock McIntosh MC275's @g_nakamoto, for a given load impedance the ratio of two power levels is expressed in db by the following formula:db = 10 x log(P1/P2)where "log" is the base-10 logarithm.From that it can be calculated that a 3 db increase corresponds to a doubl... | |
| Schiit setup troubleshooting I check my speaker<->amp connections last night and it turns out that they are connected correctly. Is the sub still connected? And can you indicate the specific make and model of the sub, and describe exactly how it is connected to the... |