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| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio Boss302 makes a good point. I'll add that incoming signal strength can be monitored at any time, by interrogating the cable modem. You may wish to do that in the future if performance problems arise.That can be done from any computer in the house ... | |
| Anybody own any direct-to-disc LP's? Were they that good?Yes, in many cases.I have many of the Sheffield Labs d-to-d releases, both popular and classical, and one of the M&K Realtime releases (the organ recording "The Power and the Glory," which is spectacular).Some of the Sheffi... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Hi Bryon,Your last post, while of course highly thoughtful, I would have to very respectfully say strikes me as being essentially a set of hypotheses, which are subject to challenge and skepticism in several ways:1)Along the lines of some of our d... | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio Hi Kij,The 45 and 11 mbps numbers you mentioned for 802.11G and B are highly theoretical, and useful for advertising purposes only. In practice getting 1/3 of those numbers is doing well.That is a common point of confusion, in part because many (o... | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio CW,In addition to the excellent suggestions offered above, you may want to consider the idea of having a wired router, and a separate wireless access point, which in turn would be wired to the router. Depending on the physical locations of your ne... | |
| Pass Aleph 3 into 16 ohms Hi Paul,Given that the Aleph 3 is rated at 30W into 8 ohms; that Stereophile's measurements indicate about 32W as the output power corresponding to the onset of clipping with an 8 ohm load; that the amp's output impedance is negligibly small (abou... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps Ralph, thanks very much for the highly informative post.I have one further question. In this thread, and I believe in another current thread, you alluded to PRaT as something that can be designed for, within the constraints of certain tradeoffs th... | |
| Importance of Damping Factor and Current for amps In addition to the good points that have been made above, it should be kept in mind that extremely high amplifier damping factors are meaningless in typical setups, because from the woofer's perspective damping is also limited by the resistance of... | |
| Are PCC189/7ES8 tubes useable in place of 6DJ8? As you've found, there is lots of conflicting advice out there. Here is one of the more negative opinions:http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/tubes/messages/16/168747.htmlI note in my tube manual that the 6DJ8 is listed as having a nominal u (amplifi... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" I wonder whether, as a generalization, speaker designs that emphasize time-alignment are better at presenting ambient cues, all other things being equal. Do you think so?I'm not certain, but my suspicion is "no." I would guess that lack of time a... | |
| Was Beta as good as or better than reel to reel? Was Beta as good as or better than reel to reel? I very much doubt it, Mitch. Also, btw, I think you mean to refer to "Beta HiFi," not to the plain Beta format. The main reason Beta HiFi was able to CLAIM top-notch performance as an audio recorder... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" As a practical matter very few recordings actually have real ambient cues. This is true even in classical recordings. That's probably true for many or most releases by the larger classical labels, whose recordings are generally heavily multi-mic'd... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Rather than relying on equipment colorations to enhance ambient cues, it seems to me that there is far better way to hear the ambient cues on a recording, and thus to contribute to the illusion that you are there, and that is by increasing RESOL... | |
| Are there any constants in speaker wire designs? I think that one explainable technical factor, which seems to be rarely discussed and rarely specified but could account for some subjectively perceived differences between unbalanced interconnect cables, is the resistance of the shield (or other ... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Hi Newbee,Interesting questions.My understanding has been that "forward" vs. "backward" is essentially a different issue than "they are here" vs. "you are there." My understanding has been that "forward" and "backward" are primarily matters of emp... |