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| Long intereconnects - Phono to Pre? From a technical standpoint, I don't see any problem doing that. The balanced outputs of the LP5.3 have a 100 ohm output impedance, according to Stereophile's measurements. Four meters of cable at 47 pf/ft represents a capacitive reactance at 20kH... | |
| How Important is Dynamic Headroom? See this thread. The bottom line: Dynamic headroom is a spec that is inconsistently defined and misleading. I would therefore suggest ignoring it.Also, re your mention of damping factor, extremely high damping factors are meaningless, because the ... | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio CW -- That's interesting about Kaspersky. Perhaps the reason my suspicions were otherwise is that pretty much all of the anecdotal indications I've seen were based on experience with laptops and desktops, not netbooks.If you end up deciding to go ... | |
| gold lion 12ax7 , au7 Yes. I recently installed matched and balanced (section-matched) pairs of both types (Genalex re-issue ECC82's and ECC83's) in my Chinese-made Paxthon VTA-160 amplifier, in which I also have a matched octet of SED "Winged C" EL34's. I have been ve... | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio CW -- I would guess that Kaspersky is not responsible, as my (somewhat vague) impression is that it is not as resource hogging as some of the more popular anti-virus programs. In any event, you should be able to tell for sure by entering its setti... | |
| Overpowering Speakers Tim, I sincerely appreciate your gentlemanly responses and your good intentions. However, I too feel a responsibility to separate fact from mis-information.As someone with multiple electrical engineering degrees, and multiple decades of experience... | |
| Overpowering Speakers Although the conclusions and suggestions that have been expressed in this thread are generally correct, the explanations of why tweeters are commonly damaged by underpowered amps are not.Tweeters are not damaged by DC (it would be blocked from rea... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Al, the reason a power cord can have this effect is simple. If there is a 2 volt drop in a power cord, the filaments of the tubes will run cooler and the B+ will be reduced. Since this is a voltage, the result is we get less voltage output out of ... | |
| Stereophile Rated the Sqeezebox Touch Class D Nobody is going to pay any attention to that rating, because they'll be too distracted by the Vincent ad on the adjacent page :-)Best regards,-- Al | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Power cords: a 2V drop across a power cord can rob a tube amplifier of as much as 40% of its output power! Ralph, could you provide a technical explanation of why that would be so? I don't doubt your statement, but I'm interested in understanding ... | |
| Pass Aleph 3 into 16 ohms Does that power calculation hold true if the amp is single ended and not push pull? I know it is class A, but it is not a PP design.I thought the Pass manual said the amp could do the same power into any load (at least for the X series).The amp is... | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio Here are links to info about acceptable/desirable signal strengths for cable signals:http://www.speedguide.net/faq_in_q.php?qid=78http://www.dslreports.com/faq/3412And this page provides links to info about many cable modem models, including their... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Thanks Bryon. Yes, you interpreted my point no. 3 as I intended it, that the inclusion of what was direct sound in the recording space in an omnidirectional listening space presentation represents a significant inaccuracy, which must be traded off... | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio Thanks, Boss302. But, yes, I was referring to the strength of the signal that is received by the cable modem from the outside cable. I have had several cable modem models, of at least two different makes, and in each case I was easily able to dete... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Thanks very much, Bryon. With the clarifications, qualifications, and further exposition you have provided, I find little or nothing to disagree with. Although as we both agree, a lot of what has been said remains in the realm of hypothesis, that ... |