almarg
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| Adding Tone Controls? Room correction electronics such as the recommended Antimode Dual Core 2.0 ... would seem to impose their changes to the system all the time, for all recordings .... An equalizer of some sort that can be switched in or out as needed seems the bes... | |
| By-pass fuse and add a circuit breaker See this thread. I think you'll conclude it's not a good idea.Regards,-- Al | |
| Is it really possible to compare A/B speakers?? Excellent question, Bruce. And, yes, if the amplifier being used in the comparison is a significantly poorer match for one speaker than the other, the results of the comparison can be very misleading.But IMO it is not necessary for the amp to be a... | |
| Partnering Equipment for Pass Labs XA60.5 11-25-12: PdreherThe Harbeth M-40.1's have a very flat impedance curve and are 6 ohm nominal... so your PASS amps would be more than powerful enough for them. I've driven them with tube amps ranging from 3o watts to 75 watts and they sounded great... | |
| Micromega MyDac and Windows XP During installation of the driver, you are asked to disconnect and reconnect the DAC. This is where the program seems to fail. When you reached that point, before disconnecting the DAC did you check to see if there was a "safely remove hardware" i... | |
| Wiring confusion with JL sub and components How on Earth do other people wire a sub like this into a 2-channel system?Since the sub has only line-level inputs, and not speaker-level inputs, it would normally be used either in systems having a separate preamp and power amp, or having an inte... | |
| Wiring confusion with JL sub and components The previous owner had an additional set of RCA connectors installed for running some sort of sub within his system. I've come to find out that these 2 connectors won't work with my JL Sub ....Can you provide further details on why this is so? I w... | |
| how do i get more bass w/o adding a sub I suspect that a significant contributor to the problem is the impedance match between your preamp and amp. The Primare a30 amplifiers have an input impedance of only 10K. The output impedance of the Art Audio preamp doesn't appear to be officiall... | |
| Adding Tone Controls? Your system description covers two different configurations, and appears not to have been updated in many years. Are you presently using biwired Goertz MI-2 speaker cables, as shown in one of the descriptions? And if so, are you using them without... | |
| Why does my receiver volume go from -db to +17db It is not referring to sound pressure levels (SPL), which are commonly expressed in db as you realize. I suspect it is referring to the relation between the signal voltage at the output of the preamp section of the receiver, and the signal voltage... | |
| RCA output on a turntable? Excellent answers by Elizabeth and the others above. I would add that "RCA" refers to a type of connector (plug and jack), not to the characteristics of the signal that is being sent through the connector. Most turntables in fact connect via RCA c... | |
| would 50 feet speaker wires be harmful to amp? Good question. Excessive total capacitance can cause some amplifiers to oscillate, resulting in damage, especially if they have particularly wide bandwidth and use lots of feedback. I have no familiarity with the design of your particular amplifie... | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? Tbg & Richard, why are we all here? Most fundamentally, as I see it, and as I believe most of us see it, we are here to share information, ideas, and experiences, which hopefully will be mutually beneficial as we try to guide our investments o... | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? Well, it seems that contrary to the old saying, great minds don't necessarily think alike :-)In this case, while Richard gives an emphatic second to the comment by Tbg, I'll give an emphatic second to the ones from Knghifi and Doug Schroeder.Best ... | |
| Cable Many cable effects are dependent on interactions between the characteristics of the cable and various technical characteristics of the particular components they are connecting, some of which are unspecified and unpredictable.Also, I would not ass... |