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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? 04-19-12: BryoncunninghamDog reaction is an amusing test of a system's realism.Brings to mind the most famous canine audiophile, Nipper listening to "His Master's Voice".Best,-- Al | |
| Pubul57- audiophile, philosopher, and friend This is terrible, shocking, and saddening news. RIP, Paul. Our discussions have been a pleasure and a privilege.-- Al | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? This is terrible, shocking, and saddening news. RIP, Paul. Our discussions have been a pleasure and a privilege.-- Al | |
| Capacitance loading for AT 150 mlx cart Very nice analysis, DHL.My only further comment is that when I raised the signal-to-noise concern I was not so much thinking of noise generated BY the input stage or by the source impedance, but rather that the increased source impedance at low an... | |
| How long daes it take your gear to warm up? My two solid state preamps (one of which is used as my phono stage, via its tape outputs) are on all the time, in part because they have no power switch. For critical listening I allow 2 hours for my CDP to warm up, and about 1 hour for my tube am... | |
| Need help with impedence match Aesthetix and Pass Unfortunately it is not an ideal match, using either the balanced or unbalanced connections, and depending on how much deep bass extension your speakers provide there will probably be a rolloff of the deep bass that is at least slightly perceptibl... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Hi Bryon,It can't hurt to put a ferrite on DC, and it conceivably could provide some benefit. The ferrite will have no effect on the DC itself, but would provide some amount of attenuation of RF noise that might be riding on it, the RF perhaps bei... | |
| Capacitance loading for AT 150 mlx cart Interesting thought about the 5:1 attenuator. It seems to me that it might very well do the trick, but I would have some concerns. One concern is the possibility that the higher source impedance seen by the phono stage at low and mid frequencies, ... | |
| Capacitance loading for AT 150 mlx cart DHL, thanks for providing the references and the additional comments. Yes, the Hagerman paper is somewhat simplistic, most notably in not addressing the fact that for MM's too little capacitance can result in too little upper treble.Good inputs fr... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Hi Bryon,Thanks for the update. My one comment is that in assessing the effects of the upgraded fuses on the power amp I would suggest that you make a point of separately assessing the results with music having narrow dynamic range and modest peak... | |
| Tube Preamp/solid pwr amp or solid pre/ tube pwr 04-17-12: BondmanpI have no idea what the impedance matching issue is for SS preamps with tube power amps.Usually none. Solid state preamps will usually have relatively low output impedance, and tube power amps will usually have relatively high in... | |
| How goofy is this? 04-17-12: MapmanDoesn't register on the goofy scale for me.Same here. I don't see any reason to be surprised. One suggestion I would make, though, if you haven't already done it, is that you go back and forth a couple of times between the new arra... | |
| Capacitance loading for AT 150 mlx cart I can't say for sure, and I have no experience with the particular cartridge, but I'm highly skeptical of what the salesperson told you. Although the Audio-Technica site does not indicate a spec for the inductance of the cartridge coils, this revi... | |
| Solid Silver Ethernet Cable? From a technical standpoint, given the packetized and buffered nature of ethernet data transmission, and given that the timing of D/A conversion is inherently asynchronous to the timing of the ethernet data, as I see it there are only two means by... | |
| recommendations for quality line volume control Use a pair of Rothwell attenuators at the input jacks of the preamp to which the tuner is connected.10db, which is the amount of attenuation they provide, is considered as a rough rule of thumb to correspond to a factor of 2 difference in subjecti... |