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| Got Noise? Hi Mark,If you can hear hiss at the listening position while music is playing at any volume, something is definitely wrong. Notwithstanding the fact that the high sensitivity of your Daedalus speakers will reproduce any noise that is generated or ... | |
| Speaker Cable Different for 8ohm vs 4ohm This page of Stereophile's review shows the impedance curves of the MG3.6/R.Regards,-- Al | |
| Weak Bass from my SP 1/2s Bojack 05-06-12 ... They just have very low bass output under anything below about 70 Hz (to my ears) though they are rated for +/- 3db at 45Hz. Interestingly enough, my old SP 2/3s, which were smaller and rated down to 60Hz, clearly had significa... | |
| older dedicated midfi cd player....2nd system Second the Rotel RCD-855. I have one in a second system that I purchased in 1992, which still works perfectly. The sound is smooth and well balanced, with very good definition considering its price class. You won't be disappointed if you can find ... | |
| Fuses that matter. Even if parts from different manufacturer that measure the same, will sound different in most cases.Agreed, of course. But that does not mean that parts which measure different in some respect will necessarily sound different, which was my initial... | |
| Fuses that matter. Why raise the point in the article if the measurements are less than tolerance level?Several reasons come to mind:1)As I and Kijanki indicated, whether or not a given tolerance for a given parameter is sonically significant will depend on the desi... | |
| System feedback coming thru speakers.....help A 3-prong to 2-prong adapter will probably still provide a ground, if its metal grounding tab or grounding wire is connected to the screw that holds the faceplate of the outlet in place, and provided that the wiring within the walls is enclosed in... | |
| Fuses that matter. 05-06-12: KnghifiIn MF Shunyata Triton review, Caelin Gabriel invented the DTCD Analyzer that can measure anything that conducts current. He found even fuses measure differently. So theoretically fuses should sound differently in a component but l... | |
| Speaker Cable Different for 8ohm vs 4ohm Hi Nick,Yes to both questions. However, the most significant issue is not the voltage loss in itself, but the fact that the amount of the voltage loss will vary as a function of frequency, and thus it can affect tonal balance. While the Maggies th... | |
| Fuses that matter. Hi Bryon,As you might expect, I'm not surprised.Among the three possible reasons that you hypothesized for the non-repeatable initial perception, btw, I suspect that reason 1 was not the cause, and it was due either to differences in contact integ... | |
| As file resolution goes up sound level goes down? Thanks for the additional info, Kenny. I suspect that the harshness at 5:30 is the linearity degradation and/or soft clipping that I referred to, corresponding to the amp approaching or reaching the limits of its power capability. If so, along the... | |
| As file resolution goes up sound level goes down? Hmm, that sounds like even though you are not clipping the amp to a degree that is clearly perceptible as such, it still may be running out of steam, perhaps as a result of degraded linearity as it approaches its maximum power capability, and/or a... | |
| As file resolution goes up sound level goes down? Is the symptom that (a)you can't get enough volume with the volume control turned all the way up, or (b)that you encounter clipping and/or distortion on musical peaks with the hi rez material, at volume control settings that are below maximum?If t... | |
| Speaker Cable Different for 8ohm vs 4ohm What values of resistance and inductance put a speaker cable in the 'low' category. What measured value should you look for? Also, does that mean good 12 guage is better than a good 14 guage when connecting to a 4 ohm speaker?12 gauge will have lo... | |
| Speaker Cable Different for 8ohm vs 4ohm A p.s. to my last post. See this Wikipedia writeup on the voltage divider effect, and in Figure 1 think of Z1 as being the combination of the cable's resistance and inductive reactance, and Z2 as being the impedance of the speaker. That may help c... |