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| Is my room doomed? Pic Lots of good thoughts above, and most likely several of the factors that have been mentioned are contributing.But I would single out the short distance from the listening position to the windows as likely to be the most major contributor, despite ... | |
| Ohms law? You'll find this thread to be of interest:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1268945799The bottom line: Try both and see which sounds best.Regards,-- Al | |
| Vertical vs Horizontal Bi-amp In the vertical passive bi-amp configuration you have the same signal going through both amplifier channels, while in the horizontal configuration the signal is different to some degree. Therefore inter-channel crosstalk and other inter-channel ef... | |
| Best budget, high current, DIY power cord wire? Photon46 makes some excellent points. Even the factor I mentioned, about high frequency noise generated in the power supply and/or power transformer of a power amp coupling into the amp's power cord and then radiating into other parts of the syste... | |
| Best budget, high current, DIY power cord wire? shielding probably counts less than vibration damping or conductor isolationI doubt that that is true. See the posts by Atmasphere in the following thread, explaining why large amounts of high frequency noise may be generated in both the power sup... | |
| Marantz 2325 Phono section Here is a review of the 2325 which appeared in "High Fidelity" in 1975:http://www.angelfire.com/wi/blueswapper/2325review.htmlAs you'll see in the specs on page 2, the phono input is indeed not suitable for low output moving coil cartridges.If you... | |
| How to tame brightness Based on the measurements and the comments in this review of the Epos M12.2, which I am assuming is not particularly different than the M12 in relevant respects, the comments by Duke (Audiokinesis) about listening height appear to be right on the ... | |
| RCA to RCA vs. RCA to XLR Addendum to my previous post:I should emphasize that in Figure 2.1 of the reference I linked to, it should be noted that the adapter arrangement is NOT simply an xlr-to-rca adapter at the destination component's input, fed via an rca-to-rca cable.... | |
| RCA to RCA vs. RCA to XLR The following reference is a bit technical, but well worth reading:http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/an003.pdfThere is no general answer as to which is better, because many variables are involved, encompassing the equipment design, the noise e... | |
| Soundsmith's turnaround time? No word from them yet on a cartridge I sent in 6 months ago, in early October, 2009. Another member reported here a few months ago that the work on his cartridge was completed after 7 months.Regards,-- Al | |
| I think I've made up my mind Mapman, I would expect the answer to be "yes" to all three of the questions in your previous post. But of course engineering a product invariably involves a very extensive number of complex inter-related tradeoffs, both theoretical and practical, ... | |
| I think I've made up my mind Re the sub-thread about the Ref3 sounding dull and bland, and whether or not that can be attributed to impedance mismatches between preamp and power amp, I agree with Tvad, at least in the context of his XA60.5's.A balanced output impedance that, ... | |
| SET Preamps Not sure how you are defining "SET preamp," but as I would define it most and perhaps nearly all tube preamps are SETs.Meaning that their output tubes (and other tubes that are in the signal path) are triodes, and the output stages do NOT consist ... | |
| Who makes a good CD recorder? Unfortunately the Masterlink is listed at B&H as discontinued. Sweetwater.com lists it as out of stock but expected to be in stock shortly. Not sure how much confidence I would have in that.Here are some other pro-oriented recorders offered at... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? Cdc: Why does the I/C from the source to passive pre have to be as short as possible while from the passive pre to power amp can be longer?Actually, the reverse is true. The high output impedance of a passive preamp will form an RC low pass filter... |