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| Why are modern arms so ugly? FWIW, as someone who considers himself to be sensitive to the difference between good and bad examples of industrial design, I totally agree with Ralph about the Triplanar and the Phantom. To me they create an instant visual impression of finely c... | |
| Interconnect Help If the present cable is also only 1.5 feet or so, I would not expect that changing it will affect the treble significantly. If the present cable is significantly longer than that, reducing the length and selecting a cable having lower capacitance ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Agreed, Anthony. That certainly reinforces the meaningfulness of the experiments you cited.This Jensen paper may be of interest to others who are following this thread. It explains why unbalanced interfaces between components can be prone to both ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? 09-22-11: Clio09In my conversations with some designers the indication was that active preamps are responsible for a larger source of the noise in ones system than amps (assumption is we are talking similar designed equipment).... Adding any passi... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Hi Paul,Yes, I certainly don't question that, assuming there are no significant tradeoffs in the "no contact" approach. As I indicated, what I was questioning was simply the explanation that I quoted.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? The (diode thingy) "diode effect" is bought around by very fast music transients from the source, CDP or phono, which can be in the order of 100's of volts per micro seconds (volts per uS) these happen as the name implies in micro seconds.While I ... | |
| Logitech Duet sonds awful Marco (Jax2), the Duet apparently provided an optical output, as well as a coaxial digital output. Shlibotnik, did you mean that you had both outputs connected simultaneously, or that you tried them one at a time, with only one of them connected a... | |
| W4S ST-1000, How Loud Should It Play? Steve, thanks for the update. Some basic questions: What is your source component? If it is a computer-based source, are you sure that there isn't a software volume control in the path? And have you tried a variety of material at the 65 setting, t... | |
| Details for bi-amping Excellent points, Magfan. To further clarify my point about power, though, what I was basically saying is that for passive biamping voltage swing capability needs to be considered as well as power capability, particularly if there is a large dispa... | |
| Details for bi-amping Agreed, Jeffrey. The thoughts we have expressed are not inconsistent, as what I was referring to was the use of a "MUCH less powerful tube amp on top" (emphasis added), resulting in "much of the power capability of the solid state amp" not being u... | |
| Details for bi-amping JeffreyBehr, I think he means that he wants to use a pair of monoblock solid state amps for the lows, and a pair of monoblock tube amps for the mids/highs.You are of course making a good point that what needs to be matched is gains, not sensitivit... | |
| Balanced / single ended night and day difference Thanks, George. Edorr, a quick experiment that I think would be worth doing would be to see if you hear anything when you select the rca path while the xlr connection is present but the rca connection is not, and vice versa.Any low level crosstalk... | |
| Balanced / single ended night and day difference I think that a contributing factor to the differences you heard might have been the effects of connecting both sets of outputs of the player to the Theta at the same time, particularly if the player provides signals to both its xlr and rca connect... | |
| Bryston BDP1- loading problem Thanks for the update, Jaytea. It's strange that there was no problem with your first drive, containing a considerably smaller amount of AIFF data. Perhaps that gives them a clue, and perhaps it explains why they didn't catch the problem sooner.Be... | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? 09-14-11: Paperw8 09-14-11: Kijanki Voltage ratio in electronics is, and always has been 20log(v2/v1). Pretty much anything other than power is always 20dB(k2/k1) including sound pressure, sound level etc. -3dB of voltage means 0.708 of a value.i ... |