almarg
Responses from almarg
| The CD player is dead....... Devilboy: Going through the responses, I've noticed that the majority of you have not gone the hard drive route because you don't want to spend the TIME copying your music to a hard drive. That doesn't tell me WHY you think cd players are superior... | |
| The CD player is dead....... Kijanki: Typewriters? Thanks for proving my point for me.That's what he was trying to do. :-)-- Al | |
| Infinity model 5000 vintage speakers According to a 1991 Orion Blue Book I have, they were made in 1980, and sold new for $698/pair at that time.Regards,-- Al | |
| Help with Cables "which ones best for my set-up?" Rise time tracks with HF bandwidth.... Components with a rolled off treble also show a corresponding slowness and greater curve to the corners in their square wave response.... Limited HF response slows rise time, which by definition smears the on... | |
| Help with Cables "which ones best for my set-up?" While I have no reason to doubt Johnnyb53's sonic observations, the explanation is not quite right.Slowed or degraded risetime is NOT the result of time-alignment issues, or of some frequencies arriving at different times than other frequencies. E... | |
| Apple and Privacy issues I personally don't consider tracking cookies to be a significant privacy concern, although in principle the potential for abuse cannot be completely ruled out.It should be kept in mind that tracking cookies do NOT provide the capability of recordi... | |
| The CD player is dead....... My main objective was to find out why people prefer cd players over a computer/dac combo. I'm surprised that as far as I can see no one has yet mentioned the jitter issues that can arise with interfaces between dacs and spdif or aes/ebu or usb out... | |
| Vintage Wire Recorder, Air King Model A750-A Yes there are collectors of wire recorders, but their value is fairly minimal. My guess is that if it is in nice cosmetic condition, and given that it includes a turntable and amplifier, if you offered it via an internet auction it might bring $50... | |
| Rotel RB 1090 rca & xlr connection Probably, but I don't think we can be completely certain.This Stereophile review indicates that there is a switch to select between the xlr and rca inputs.My first concern is that if the switch position is changed while the amp is powered on a lar... | |
| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp Ken, re Energizer's nice offer, keep in mind as I indicated earlier that commercially made xlr-to-rca cables (and adapters) in most cases have pin 3 shorted to pin 1 (ground). I would not use that cable on an xlr OUTPUT without first checking with... | |
| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp KenL,I'm not sure whether or not the Pass XA series amps would be good matches for a passive volume control, because of the XA's relatively low input impedance (20K unbalanced, 30K balanced). Although I note that Stereophile's measurements indicat... | |
| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp If your "balanced amp" is "fully balanced," meaning that its internal signal path is entirely balanced, and both its red and black speaker terminals are actively driven (as opposed to the black terminal being grounded internally), an rca-to-xlr ad... | |
| How to accomodate a balanced only phono stage ? Dave, Lew, thanks. I haven't yet taken the time to go through the thread Dave linked to. But I would expect that a factor that would in some cases be decisive regarding the advisability or inadvisability of using an rca-to-xlr adapter which ground... | |
| How to accomodate a balanced only phono stage ? I should have added that IF one does use an RCA cable to carry a balanced signal, then one must lift the chassis ground connection on the RCA jacks, for sure. Else, like Dave said, you will lose the negative half of the signal to ground. This equi... | |
| How to accomodate a balanced only phono stage ? A standard RCA/XLR converter plug may not work, as these typically short XLR pin 3 to ground.... As suggested by Lewm, if in an RCA configuration cartridge negative phase and shield to RCA barrel share a common wire, then grounding the shield to p... |