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| Ref 3 Impedence Mismatch HELP please Any idea how much that would be?http://www.stereophile.com/content/audio-research-reference-3-line-preamplifier-measurements:The output impedance was also to spec., at 635 ohms balanced and 326 ohms unbalanced in the treble and midrange, but rose ... | |
| Balanced connection from pre-amp to amp--Need help Yes, you can connect the two components via xlr. The only effect it will have is a polarity inversion, also known as a reversal of absolute phase. Whether or not that has any audible significance is controversial, and in any event is dependent on ... | |
| Man in need of new music Following up on my earlier post, it looks like the Chesky CD I had suggested is out of print, but it is offered by a number of sellers at Amazon. IMO it is well worth the high prices being asked, especially for those that are offered in "used/like... | |
| Transport signal thru mult cables simultaneously? Can you break-in two digital cables simultaneously using the same transport/DAC? Yes. All that is required for normal current to flow through each cable is the presence of the termination resistor (or equivalent load impedance) in the correspondin... | |
| Man in need of new music Not sure if it is still in print and/or readily findable, but if you can find it I think you would be thrilled with Chesky CD31, Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 ("From The New World"), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jascha Horenstein. You a... | |
| Adding a sub - what will I loose? On the question of "fast" bass, this strikes me as an excellent article:http://www.soundstage.com/maxdb/maxdb061999.htmBest regards,-- Al | |
| Adding a sub - what will I loose? 12-02-11: Dbphd"I've had a couple of subs that actually sounded better using the speaker connections than the RCAs."Doesn't that imply that the main amp is superior to the amp in the sub, even within the limited frequency domain of the sub.With a ... | |
| Memory Players Thanks very much, Ed (Buscis2). Here is an excellent paper from Linn, which is essentially consistent with what I had said about CD-ROM drives, but provides some good elaboration.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Memory Players Does the MP utilize a ROM drive. If so, I was actually unaware of ROM drives incorporating error correction.I believe that all or nearly all CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives will not perform error CONCEALMENT (i.e., interpolation), but I'm pretty certain... | |
| Memory Players The statement about the Nova player that is quoted in the OP is misleading. What occurs "hundreds or even thousands of times per disk," which in conventional players and transports is subjected to what it refers to as "Error Code Correction," resu... | |
| New DAC or new cable? Well said, Doug, including the inside joke :-)BTW, I should add that my earlier reference to ground loop effects that are more likely to arise with unbalanced interconnections, which as I indicated can be sensitive to cable differences, pertains n... | |
| Best Classical to "broaden" listening arena? Among the composers who IMO should be on your initial short list, I would add Schubert, Chopin, Dvorak, and Schumann to those already suggested in Ojgalli's post. If opera may be of interest, Puccini. From the earlier Baroque period, Telemann and ... | |
| New DAC or new cable? 11-29-11: Almarg... including sacrificing much of the power capability of the amp.Correction: I should have included the word "possibly" in front of this phrase, as it depends on how the design is implemented.Regards,-- Al | |
| New DAC or new cable? Your AX-7e provides rca inputs, as well as xlr inputs, and presumably it converts the unbalanced rca inputs into balanced signal pairs, since it has balanced internal signal paths. So why do either? Just use an rca-to-rca cable.Doing that would re... | |
| Can the copy sound better than the original? See this thread, in which the same question was discussed. The bottom line, IMO: Yes, it is quite plausible, and is even expectable depending on the media and the player. The quotes contained in my post that is linked to in that thread present sev... |