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| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Outstanding, Bryon! Glad all this work has paid off. Enjoy!Best regards,-- Al | |
| speaker cables for Wilson Sophia From a technical standpoint Richard's comments strike me as plausible. Which is not to say that using non-MIT cables will invariably blow up the amplifier, but it seems conceivable to me that under some circumstances either a full-blown oscillatio... | |
| Where should I go next? Where are my weak links? 02-26-12: RauliruegasNow, I can't see clear which your point. Are you trying to say that the Manley is a right amp for those speakers? or are you trying to diminish the impedance mistmatch between Manley and Zu? which your point?... Trying to matc... | |
| Serious Classical Labels I have found the following labels to have provided excellent sounding recordings with a high degree of consistency, although unfortunately a number of them no longer exist:AccentAstreeAudiofonCheskyDorianHarmonia Mundi FranceHarmonia Mundi USAHype... | |
| Hero vs Goertz did a comparison Glad that you have found a synergistic cable match with your preamp. However I would caution those reading this against the expectation that similar results will necessarily occur in other systems, or even between other components in your own syst... | |
| Where should I go next? Where are my weak links? Some further comments on the amplifier-to-speaker impedance compatibility issue:It can be calculated that the interaction of the speaker's impedance dip to about 4 ohms at 20 kHz and the amplifier's 2 ohm output impedance will result in a frequenc... | |
| Mystery 30 Minute Sound Degradation Just a completely wild guess, but I see that the literature on your preamp indicates that following turn-on "about 10 seconds after the filaments light up the DC rails are slowly brought up to full voltage of 200 Volts over a period of 60 seconds.... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 Hi Paul,I have no particular insight into that. But I note that the MC402 and MC501 are both described as double-balanced, meaning that each channel consists of two fully balanced amplifiers that are bridged together via the autoformer. I'd expect... | |
| digital vs vinyl thoughts Minorl, agreed on all counts.Learsfool, and others who are interested in classical music, when and if the opportunity arises I would recommend that you find and purchase the following out-of-print CD's. They just may cause you to modify, at least ... | |
| Straight XLR vs XLR to RCA adapter Wolf, I recall your mention of that negative experience with the Mogami's in the past. In fairness, it should be said that many others have reported very positive experiences with that cable. I certainly don't doubt the accuracy of what you percei... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 Gentlemen, I believe that what the autoformers in the McIntosh amplifiers essentially do is that they allow the amp to maintain the very low output impedance of a solid state amp, while relieving the transistorized output circuits of the need to d... | |
| Where should I go next? Where are my weak links? Regarding the question about the impedance match between amplifier and speaker, see Figure 1 in Stereophile's measurements of the speaker, and JA's comments in the paragraph just above the figure.IMO the wide variation of the speaker's impedance a... | |
| digital vs vinyl thoughts 02-23-12: MarqmikeI understand digital has the theoretical potential to be better than analog as we know it. Analog might read more of the signal originally by the microphone but after that it is at the mercy of everything downstream. Digital has ... | |
| digital vs vinyl thoughts IMO the fact that digital is sampled is not in itself a persuasive argument in favor of vinyl. I think that most people, especially those with an understanding of sampling theory and digital signal processing, would agree that there must be SOME s... | |
| Does anyone use a different cable for the neg run? I had contemplated using longer runs of my Romex return wires and running them directly to my panels ground wire, not hard to do as my panel is in my listening room.This way all grunge would bypass the amplification chain and go right to ground at... |