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| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes 02-14-12: AudiooracleFirst of all it depends on the resolution of the system and the acuity of your ears!True, obviously, to some extent. However, it should be kept in mind that the ability of a system to resolve musical information, and its abili... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Thanks Jim!Best regards,-- Al | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please Hi Bryon,As for why (3) sounded worse than (1) and (2) ... maybe grounding the enclosures to the G68 made the enclosures act like antennas collecting RFI, and that RFI was then transmitted into the G68?That would certainly seem like a possibility.... | |
| Is there any truth to this question? 02-13-12: McphersonThis may be a silly ? but when the term "clipping" is used..Is it referring to the amp shutting down momentarily or the speakers making a clipping sound?It does not refer to the amp shutting down, momentarily or otherwise. It re... | |
| Is there any truth to this question? 02-13-12: DigepixHere's another one: Harbeth speakers, less sensitive than my Vandersteens and are an easy load for amps to drive my YBA amp is a great match for them ...If the Harbeth's were similar in their frequency response and impedance chara... | |
| Thoughts on Neutralaudio X-Drei, wrt BSG QOL Based on the limited descriptions that are available, QOL and X-Drei seem to me to be intended to do two completely different and unrelated things. QOL appears to be intended to somehow extract/recover/restore information, apparently phase-related... | |
| Is there any truth to this question? IMO excellent comments have been made in many of the posts above, but with respect to the general question (as opposed to your specific situation) I would particularly emphasize these:02-13-12: FrogmanIf the YBA's 50 watts is sufficient to drive y... | |
| VAC Sig Ren MK2a Headscratcher ... the ability to finally drive the bass enclosures of my 7se's like they were made to be driven means I should no longer need my sub (except maybe for movies).I suspect that if you connect the sub you would be connecting it to your Integra proce... | |
| VAC Sig Ren MK2a Headscratcher Steve McCormack as quoted in this review:The DNA-500 is a Class A/B amplifier that's biased fairly rich. Because I don't have to use extremely high voltages, it runs only warm at idle and I don't need a huge amount of heat sink surface area. If it... | |
| Does listening fatigue go away??? IMPORTANT FOLLOW-UP to my previous comment about the Minimax DAC:It appears that the original version of the Minimax DAC had extremely high output impedances of 22K and 10K for its tube and solid state outputs, respectively. Those output impedance... | |
| VAC Sig Ren MK2a Headscratcher What you are describing is a conventional passive bi-amp arrangement. It won't do any damage. The crossover circuits in each of the two sections of the speaker will filter out frequencies that should not be applied to the corresponding drivers, ju... | |
| TRL Dude or Joule 150 MKII for Major Pre Upgrade This was extremely bizarre to me...To me as well. Have the preamps been located close to a possible source of emi/rfi, including perhaps the amplifier itself? If that seems like a possibility, try moving the preamp to different physical locations.... | |
| Does listening fatigue go away??? The first thing I would try to determine is whether or not the quality of the source material is the problem. Perhaps the deficiencies of the particular recordings you have listened to since the upgrade are being more accurately reproduced.Beyond ... | |
| Shielding components from EMI/RFI... Help please The only thing in the chain without shielded ports is the router. So I plugged in both ethernet cords next to each other and then wedged in a scew between the metal shields on the RJ45 plugs to tie their shields together. Does anybody think that w... | |
| TRL Dude or Joule 150 MKII for Major Pre Upgrade Grannyring, what kind of speaker cables are you using, and how long are they? If by any chance they are one of the kinds that has extremely high capacitance, such as Goertz or Ocos, and you are using them without a Zobel network, I'm wondering if ... |