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| The Hub: Just call it UBANGI ! dBcat, I stand corrected! I'll try to be more purr-fect in the future :-)Best regards,-- Al | |
| Will there be any 'Arrow' mark in a Fuse holder? Sid, my feeling is that a blind test would be unlikely to accomplish anything. Most blind tests that have been reported in the past, involving things that would seem more likely to make a perceivable difference than fuse orientation (such as cable... | |
| The Hub: Just call it UBANGI ! A qualification to dbcat's reference to Philo Farnsworth, which I suspect dbcat is aware of but others may not be. Farnsworth invented ELECTRONIC television, as opposed to the spinning disk technology which preceded it (with limited adoption of co... | |
| SUT shootout Thanks, Doug. A couple of clarifications to my previous post, which are relevant to your "quibbles" :)By "square wave" I did not mean to refer to something that is truly square, with edges that are nearly vertical, or that even approach being near... | |
| SUT shootout To perform a meaningful shootout would first require identifying the optimal primary and secondary side load for each SUT/cartridge combination. Balancing even one such combination is a work of several hours, at least. It's also not inexpensive, s... | |
| Will there be any 'Arrow' mark in a Fuse holder? Rhapsodi -- As you can gather from the preceding responses, whether or not the orientation of audiophile-oriented replacement fuses is sonically significant is a matter of, um, some controversy. Whatever the case may be, though, the statement you ... | |
| Why not horns? We live in a neighborhhod with Victorian style homes including ours and the Grammophone like look appealed to her. We think alike in this way in that I think that is part of the appeal of horns to me, is that tie to the past.While the ancestral he... | |
| impedance matching amp/preamp Mechans,First, keep in mind two fundamental relationships:Ohm's Law: Voltage = Current x Resistance Power = Current x Voltage, which, by subsitution of the above relationship, equals ((Voltage squared)/Resistance)(Both relationships applying to si... | |
| impedance matching amp/preamp You are not missing anything. The spec is wrong:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1268272109Enjoy!-- Al | |
| Why is a 1.5-2 volt AC signal on my Neutral line? I second Shadorne's comments.So it sounds like you are saying that the 1.5 to 2.0 vac that you measured was between the circuit ground/chassis ground of each component and ac safety ground, WHILE THE COMPONENT WAS NOT CONNECTED TO ANY OTHER COMPON... | |
| Bring on the criticism... I agree with the several previous descriptions of the adverse effects you are likely to encounter. More specifically, a major effect is likely to be some degree of Comb Filtering. That occurs due to radiation of the same frequencies from different... | |
| To Preamp Or Not To Preamp,That Is The Question Why CDP and DAC designers use digital volume controls is beyond me. None of them work and a digital designer would be the first to know that...Ralph, once again two of the most brilliant minds at Audiogon (you and Kirkus) have an intellectual disa... | |
| Comparing Perf: Original XLR v. RCA- XLR adapter Raks -- No, I would not recommend doing that. Your xlr digital cable is most likely a 110 ohm aes/ebu cable, while the oppo's coaxial digital connection is undoubtedly a 75 ohm spdif interface. That impedance mismatch will cause substantial wavefo... | |
| Which cost more: your system or your car? About even if you don't factor inflation onto the prices I paid for the vintage components in my system. System by a wide margin if you do.Regards,-- Al | |
| Comparing Perf: Original XLR v. RCA- XLR adapter So the issue is narrowed down to, will the same cable (i.e. Kubala Sosna Emotion) in XLR version sound better than Kubala RCA (fitted with XLR adaptors) all else being equal? I have to possibility to try the Kubala XLR version.Many thanks.I think ... |