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| Is It Safe To Connect Speakers To Two Amps?? Hifihvn raises an important point about tube amps. They should indeed never be operated without a speaker load, or a reasonably equivalent high power resistor as a load. I too have my doubts that 150 ohms is low enough to be suitable in all cases.... | |
| Is It Safe To Connect Speakers To Two Amps?? No. The amp being used would see a load impedance equal to the speaker impedance in parallel with whatever output impedance the other amp has when it is turned off. That output impedance, in turn, is indeterminate, at least without detailed knowle... | |
| Using both the Balanced and Unblanced inputs A simple thing to try, pending an answer from McIntosh, is to connect just one of the inputs, and see what you hear when the switch is set to select the other input. Do that for both inputs, one at a time.If you hear music that approaches normal v... | |
| Magico Q3's at Goodwin's High End With respect to the discussion of voice reproduction, I think that two separate issues may be getting commingled here. One has to do with voice CHARACTER, whether the singer's voice is "big" or "small" or something in between, whether that charact... | |
| Neutral to Lean Power Cord for tube preamp I would not expect the tonal effects of a power cord, if any, to be consistent or predictable from system to system. Especially when used on a preamp, which draws an essentially constant amount of current, and generates little if any rfi.I would p... | |
| Converting Coax to AES? Also the impedance difference will mess up the waveform. Here is one solution, for $98, although I suspect that with a little looking you'll be able to find something less expensive (this one can handle two signals, which you don't need):http://ww... | |
| How much gain? 0.15mv is about 8.5 db less than 0.4mv. If you are presently using the volume control on your preamp in the upper third, or perhaps the upper half, of its range, my very rough ballpark guess would be that 8.5db corresponds to around 60 or 70 degre... | |
| Best Cables for around $500 I second the excellent comments by Puerto. I would suggest in addition, given that you will be using a balanced connection, and that your W4S DAC2 has a fairly low output impedance, that you compare whichever $500 cable you choose to audition with... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Moussorgsky, "Night on Bald Mountain" & "Pictures at an Exhibition"; Chesky RC30 ("The Power of the Orchestra"); Rene Leibowitz conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Gerhardt/Wilkinson, Producer/Engineer, recorded in 1964 for RCA.Best r... | |
| How many electrons? Shadorne, the statement you quoted from the OP in your last post omits the words "in either direction," which were at the end of the OP's sentence.None of the rest of us who have responded have interpreted the question as referring to net movement... | |
| How many electrons? 06-11-11: BifwynneHey Al, so . . . you agree with Bill (Audiofiel). What do you have against Carl Sagan (not bifwynne)???My apologies, Bruce. I should have given that response at least a nomination for second place. My wife has frequently quoted t... | |
| How many electrons? 06-11-11: ShadorneStereo speakers run on AC. AC is Alternating Current. Since we use Alternating Current there is no net transfer of electrons to the speaker. (Your speakers are NOT like a car battery that you would charge with DC)Simply put, if y... | |
| How many electrons? 06-10-11: HifihvnAlmarg, would the close to it part be do to any resistance?Elizabeth's subsequent post provided a good answer as to the reason for the "close to it" part:06-11-11: ElizabethThe number which would make the round trip might be some ... | |
| How many electrons? Lady and Gentlemen,Expanding on my previous post, the facts that electrons that are moving in response to an ac voltage "don't move much," and "stay very close by their atoms," and have a very slow drift velocity, all of which I agree with, do not... | |
| Bryston BCD-1 Player Owners I've been very satisfied with mine. I listen mostly to classical music, and I have been unable to perceive any significant weaknesses in my BCD-1. The only thing that might lead me to ultimately want to explore other possibilities would be if I wa... |