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| 2 REL Strata Subs and Mono amps 12-30-12: VladimirI checked the Gibraltar manual online and on page 12 it explains the way to connect to differential amplifiers such as your Krells, basically to connect the black Speakon wire to a chassis screw as was explained by others here. T... | |
| 2 REL Strata Subs and Mono amps Thanks, Hifigeek. Jdolgin, descriptions I found of the VM220 indicate pretty clearly that it is fully balanced. However, as Hifigeek's comments make clear, the fact that it is a tube amplifier having an output transformer introduces still more var... | |
| 2 REL Strata Subs and Mono amps Zormi, thanks very much for the nice words.I would go with no. 1, connecting the subs to the outputs of the Krell amplifiers. I looked through the description and the manual for the 400e at the Krell site, and did some other searching via Google, ... | |
| 2 REL Strata Subs and Mono amps 12-29-12: ZormiPersonally, I have a piece of Primare A32 250Wpc stereo amplifier planned for that task. The main part of my system is consisted of Krell Phantom preamp (with active crossover onboard) and a pair of Krell Evo-400e monoblocks. This c... | |
| 2 REL Strata Subs and Mono amps 12-29-12: Wolf_garciaI imagine you only need one positive lead per mono amp, as otherwise a single REL sub combines those signals anyway to utilize both channels. If the amps are not balanced or bridged, I suspect that results in most cases would ... | |
| 2 REL Strata Subs and Mono amps Connection of the red and yellow wires to the red output terminal of the amp is fine. Connection of the black wire to the black output terminal of the amp is fine if the amp does not have balanced outputs, and is not bridged.If the amp has balance... | |
| Cables that are more enhanced than Acoustic Zen The woofers are rolled off at 39 hz so hopefully it won't be a big issue.Hi Tom,Not sure, then, that I understand what the configuration is that you will be going to. From the description of the SoundScape 10:We had, for many years, loved the woof... | |
| Analog vs Digital Confusion Lowrider, I have a great many of the Telarc LP's from the 1980's, and yes, many of them are excellent. A few suffer from excessively swimmy acoustics, but that is clearly attributable to the mic techniques that were used on those particular record... | |
| Cables that are more enhanced than Acoustic Zen Tom, FWIW my perspective on this is that by far the most important criterion in your cable selection process is likely to be the need to mitigate the differences I suspect you will encounter in tonality, coherence, etc., between the QSC amplifier ... | |
| Speaker choice: impedance, sensitivity, and tubes I'm still waiting for a cogent response to a question that I posted in another thread which is how can one make an informed choice between matching a particular amp with a particular speaker.Bruce, as the other thread makes clear there are many va... | |
| Analog vs Digital Confusion Frogman, Learsfool, and others whose focus is classical music on vinyl: I would encourage you to try to find some of the unfortunately out of print classical CD's that were issued some years ago on the Wilson Audio label (yes, that Wilson). Especi... | |
| Speaker choice: impedance, sensitivity, and tubes Hi Marek,I think that this recent thread answers a lot of your questions, and will be well worth reading.Perhaps not as important as impedance, but a lot of popular brands out there have disappointingly low sensitivity (85-86 dB). Why is that?One ... | |
| Balanced audio switching Don't use a y-cable. Two outputs should never be connected together, apart perhaps from unusual and very specific circumstances. If both components are on at the same time, the load impedance seen by the one being used will be approximately equal ... | |
| What amps do Electrical Engineers own...why? Thanks, Rok2id. I wasn't intending to avoid the issue.If we restrict the question to solid state amps, offhand I can't think of any having really poor specs that nevertheless provide top-notch sonics, but there are many renowned high quality amps ... | |
| What amps do Electrical Engineers own...why? 12-27-12: Rok2idI would like for someone to name ONE Amp with horrible specs, that sounds good. Actually, that's an easy question. Just about any high end tube amplifier will have specs for Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) that are vastly worse tha... |