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| The Best Audiophile Earphones headphones and Amp Tonykay 02-05-11: Used units on Audiogon are safe bets. Stax headphones are hard to damage-I've been using mine for about 20 years and they still sound GREAT! Ditto!If you want to consider a used pair of Stax's, you should be aware that original S... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon,Another of your fascinating and thought-provoking threads, which expectably has stimulated some excellent responses.The one thing that occurs to me that has not yet been mentioned, and which I think factors into "warmth" significantly, is... | |
| Tube amp with gain controls..any suggestions There are three ways to make it work:1)Choose amps whose gains closely match.2)Choose the higher gain amp such that it includes a gain control.3)Insert a suitably chosen passive attenuator in series with the input to the higher gain amp, as Newbee... | |
| WAV versus FLAC Simontju 02-03-11: I did my "fun" experiment using relatively powerful CPU - Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz (Quad Core), ASUS Rampage III motherboard with SATA3, 12 GBytes of RAM and a SATA3 Hard Drive etc - hardly a typical "slow" computer having audi... | |
| Phase inverting problem So you can be assured that 50% of all recordings are in phase and the other half are not.Ralph, to what extent do you feel that holds true for simply mic'd classical recordings that are recorded in halls, and are produced by labels that are audiop... | |
| speaker cable upgrade Schipo 1-31-11: I will say please read what a Dr Howard Johnson {not the restaurant} has to say about spending large amounts of money on cables first before departing with your funds.I took his course on high speed digital design about 15 years ag... | |
| Phase inverting problem My only idea so far is, seeing that I only have one line input (cd), is cutting open the RCA cable and switching + and - of the line, and connecting the speakers to the power amp the correct way. So, I'll do just that.Don't! If the cd player and t... | |
| Benfits of upgraded connectors I take no position on sonic differences among rca connectors. However, some technical misconceptions have been expressed above that should be corrected. Resistance in a connection path will only matter if it becomes a significant fraction of the i... | |
| interconnect burn in via tuner? I can't see how just leaving the tuner on but not have the amp running will break in the cable. It will not be performing any function will it?George (Xti16) is correct, Stan. The input of the amp will "look" essentially the same to the cable and ... | |
| Audio's Biggest Loser? After reviewing your system and your well thought out setup, my reaction is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Or, at least, don't fix it by going to the opposite extreme.In my limited experience with them, well designed mini-speakers are certainl... | |
| Most Beneficial Cable Upgrade Following are some factors which will affect the answer to your question:1)Sensitivity of the system to interconnect cable differences will be increased if:(a)The output impedance of the component driving the cable is high.(b)The cable is unbalanc... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? Kijanki -- I agree 100% with your post just above.I would additionally mention the fact that balanced interfaces will be much less susceptible to ground loop issues than unbalanced interfaces. That susceptibility can be length-dependent, because i... | |
| At what distance are balanced XLR cables needed? I was about to compose a post saying essentially the same things as in Clio's post above, but he saved me the trouble :-)Ralph has particularly emphasized the part about "not all components are designed to this standard," meaning that it is common... | |
| phono preamp break-in machine Tfkaudio: The disc being played doesn't change the output voltage of the CD playerOf course it does. The output voltage changes continuously in proportion to the instantaneous amplitude of the music, or in this case the test tones. If the tones ar... | |
| Cable gauge and ohm load I second the comments by Stan and Elizabeth, and also the gauge tabulation that Mceljo quoted. Anti-Cables, btw, are not narrow gauge. They appear that way because the insulation is thin. The technical info page at their site indicates that they a... |