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| Sota+SME IV=Ugh !!! I’m pursuing a Grado Reference for its characteristics and price point.I would be cautious about the possibility of hum pickup, which the Grado's are prone to with SOME turntables, due to the lack of shielding that results from their wood construc... | |
| Amplifier current draw/wattage 01-17-12: Charles1dadI don`t want to measure speakers, but want to know the power output of the amplifier at different volumes. IOW how much power is used at say SPL of 70db vs 85db(how hard is the amp working) measured in watts.Charles, that can ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Anthony, no, I was assuming in my last post that both supplies are nominally 12VDC. However, neither is likely to be exactly 12VDC, and the two are not likely to be exactly the same. Also, the output voltage of the battery will change slightly as ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Perhaps the reason some of you are reporting sonic differences between using battery power and the wall wart is simply that volume levels haven't been precisely equalized for the comparison?I realize that the LSA has an internal regulator, but no ... | |
| Thunderbolt DAC & Thurderbolt NAS? I believe that what you are referring to as a Thunderbolt NAS ("Network Attached Storage") is more properly referred to simply as an external hard drive or array of hard drives having a Thunderbolt interface. Thunderbolt is not usable for general ... | |
| Impedance or sensitivity? If the speaker has been reviewed in Stereophile, John Atkinson's measurements at the end of the review will usually provide useful commentary on how easy or difficult the speaker is to drive. That commentary will be based on the plot that is prese... | |
| bridging integrated amplifier 01-13-12: Rome2000The bridging wiring technique to take the positive from the receiver's right channel and connecting to the positive terminal on the speaker, then take the negative from the receiver left channel to the speakers negative terminal.... | |
| Which Cables Are of Most Importance? While Frogman's statement is certainly true, the converse is also true. Any information that is lost or distortion that is added by a downstream component or cable cannot be corrected by anything further upstream!IMO the lack of consensus in this ... | |
| Anyone With Info & Specs - Calbest Stereoplex Found this in a "for sale" listing from some time ago, for a different Calbest model:Calbest Electronics (Calbest Engineering and Electronics) was not a small unheard of company. They were one of the 8 Companies who founded the standards and rules... | |
| Stax headphone amp with non-Stax headphones. If by "non-Stax headphones" you mean "non-electrostatic headphones," don't even think about it! As Elizabeth indicated, electrostatic headphones work at VERY high voltage levels, which are sourced from high output impedances. Dynamic headphones ar... | |
| What constitutes a "high output" moving coil cart? With no music playing, set your volume control to the highest position that you would normally set it at with the MM cartridges you have used. Then see how much higher you can turn it before the hiss level at the listening position becomes objecti... | |
| Digital cable impedance question Hifihvn is basically correct. The 75 ohms and 110 ohms in this case do not refer to resistance, which as you realize will be well under 1 ohm for reasonable cable lengths. They refer to what is called characteristic impedance, which to a close app... | |
| Unfocused Sound stage I second Newbee's comment. The only things I can think of that would account for the symptoms the OP described are a +/- reversal to one (and only one) speaker, or use of a balanced interconnect that has pins 2 and 3 interchanged at one end of the... | |
| Hello, I may have a chance to go to From a technical standpoint I don't see any reason that it would be a problem, given that the current draw of the Accuphase cd players (and most others) is small. This one, for example, is rated at 18 watts. The voltage converter might even improv... | |
| Bose 901 series VI & Yamaha A-S2000 Loomis, Sebrof, Lev, thanks very much for the nice words. Cheers back atcha!Best regards,-- Al |