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| Retail? My feeling is that just as the price a seller will obtain for an item can be adversely affected by the introduction of an upgraded version, or by other circumstances beyond his or her control, he or she is entitled to realize some benefit from pri... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Hi Bryon,Re your three updates:1)One possible explanation would be that where the cloth produced a negative result it might have been deflecting radiated rfi into sensitive circuit points which the rfi would not otherwise reach.Another possibility... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Alon, re the question you posed just above, I think that the Coincident Statement Phono Preamp, with the apparently optional line-level input, is one to consider. I have no experience with it, but I have seen its sonics praised highly by other mem... | |
| First home theater. HELP Yes, it was a picture of the wired remote that I saw.I think that a better and also much less expensive approach than a passive preamp would be to put a pair of fixed-value 10 db or 20 db in-line attenuators at the preamp inputs, and then set the ... | |
| Phono cartridge left / right output voltage differ I must have remember the formula incorrectly--I thought it was 10 log (P1/P2).It is. However we are dealing with voltage, not power, and it is 20log(V1/V2) as Mulveling explained. Since for a given load power is proportional to the square of volta... | |
| First home theater. HELP 03-23-12: MinkwelderI simply used a 12:00 volume level position on my 2-channel preamp when I ran the receiver's auto-level routine, and return to that setting when using the receiver.The Meitner preamp only provides a volume control on the remote... | |
| Firewire Question for iMac The recent generation iMac's do not have a Firewire 400 port. They have a Firewire 800 port instead, which uses a 9-pin connector. You would need a 9-pin to 6-pin cable, also known as a "bilingual" cable. Granite Digital makes some good ones, alth... | |
| First home theater. HELP Another possibility is to connect the outputs (left and right) of the Meitner preamp and the pre-outs from the receiver or processor to the inputs of a switch box, that would select one or the other. The outputs of the switch box would be connecte... | |
| Am I doing it right Hi Sebrof,Yes, that's correct, except that it's conceivable that better sonic results would be obtained by using the SUT and the MM setting, compared to using no SUT and the MC setting. Which is why I suggested trying all of the possible configura... | |
| First home theater. HELP Hi Frogman,The idea seems to be that this allows the Meitner to remain connected to the front mono's for critical music playback, and that for video, the two outputs of the Meitner, being connected in parallel, would allow the front L/R line level... | |
| First home theater. HELP Hi Frogman (and others who have responded),I must admit that all of this leaves me totally confused.How can the second set of outputs on the Meitner preamp provide any usefulness in this situation? The Meitner monoblock amps have to be driven by e... | |
| Am I doing it right The stepup transformer should absolutely be used with the moving magnet setting on the Vincent, not the moving coil setting. Using the moving coil setting will cause the cartridge to see a load impedance of a fraction of 1 ohm, which is the reason... | |
| Phono cartridge left / right output voltage differ Well, we have three different statements of what the difference is in db. I would re-assert that it is almost exactly 1.0 db, as I and Mulveling indicated. 20log(0.18/0.16) or 20log(0.16/0.18).Regards,-- Al | |
| Phono cartridge left / right output voltage differ That is a difference of almost exactly 1 db, which is quite small. But I would be hesitant to say that it is completely insignificant. If your preamp has a balance control that is either continuously adjustable or has small steps near the center p... | |
| 2 tape decks- 1 tape monitor loop Hi Mark,You've seen my comments in the other thread you referred to. They are equally applicable to your situation. Using y-adapters to connect two line-level outputs together might work ok in some situations if you don't have both devices powered... |