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| Tube Preamp/solid pwr amp or solid pre/ tube pwr While as a general rule I would advocate for the ss preamp/tube power amp combination, in this case I think you may be asking the wrong question. The overriding question that should be asked, IMO, is what kind of power amplification, and what part... | |
| Stereo sub out to mono, is it safe? Erikt raises a good point about the possibility of using an adapter containing a pair of resistors to do the summing. That can be thought of as a passive mixer. It would sometimes, but not always, be a viable (and less expensive) alternative to an... | |
| Stereo sub out to mono, is it safe? Phasecorrect, thanks for the follow-up.To be sure that my first post above is clear to everyone, I will summarize it without the techno-stuff:1)There is a reasonably good chance that the y-adapter approach will work well.2)Depending on the specifi... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please I particularly enjoyed this one.LOL! I hadn't seen that before. Thanks!Best regards,-- Al | |
| Stereo sub out to mono, is it safe? Phasecorrect, I'm not sure whose answer(s) you are referring to as "bizarre," but the original question was not which channels bass "can operate in," or whether a sub "acknowledges left or right." The question was would it be safe (or could it cau... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Is the dissipation potential of a chassis determined by its surface area, its mass, its material, its conductivity, its magnetism...? Several of the above?Excellent question, but I have no particular knowledge of what the answer might be. I suspec... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please The plate is directly under the switch. I placed it there to keep the braided ground strap as short as possible, to minimize any antenna effect. Out of curiosity, is there another reason why it should be directly under the switch?Just my vague int... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Yes, the transport has no relation to the issue. The problem is that DAC's (and also CD players) usually have maximum output levels of 2 volts or more, which is unnecessarily high. Stereophile measured the maximum output level of your particular D... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? 04-12-12: AlmargI am not familiar with the characteristics of the 20 db version, but I would guess that it would present a load impedance that is significantly higher (and therefore even better).I should add to this statement, though, that since o... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? 04-12-12: GooddominoMy Krell amp has an input sensitivity of 1.34 V RMS and gain of 26db. Looks like I need an amp with lower input sensitivity . Not sure how the gain number factors in. Sensitivity (the input voltage that will result in the amp p... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Sounds good! With respect to placement of the plate, if you haven't already done so it might be worth trying it positioned directly under the switch.Best,-- Al | |
| RCA vs optical cable? 04-09-12: Ribit"Jitter can even be euphonic in nature if it has the right frequency content. " This is beyond my jargonistic experience and may be "jitterish b.s."The statement is not b.s. in any way, although it may sound like it is to someone wh... | |
| Stereo sub out to mono, is it safe? Well, now that answers of "no" and "yes" have both been presented, I'll offer a third answer, which is "maybe" :-)First, I assume that the sub outputs of the integrated amp are signals that are separately buffered and different than the signals th... | |
| Did I blow my tube amp? I can't say from the facts stated whether or not the output transformers are blown, or if something else could be causing the problem. However, I would make two points:1)Whether or not damage will result from powering up a tube amp (that has outpu... | |
| Sound Quality...iPad vs iTouch I get full strength to the Pod/Pad with the G now so coverage is not as issue. Do you think the extra "speed" of the N will make much of a sonic difference?My guess is that it will not. But if it does I would expect that it would be because of dif... |