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| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more Ladavid -- Are you sure that you don't mean Total Victory IV's, which are listed at the Coincident website as being 95db? The Super Victory (there is no Super Victory 4 listed) is indicated as 92.5db.8 watts into a pair of 95db speakers will produ... | |
| Select Your Less Than Ideal System I vote "C," for the reasons that have been stated by many of the others.But I would add that the question seems to me to be based on a false premise, that there is perfect or near perfect correlation between performance and price. And I would say ... | |
| I can't tell the difference could you point me to some documentation that describes how a cable could impact the spdif transmission? You'll find this article to be of interest. It explains how cable LENGTH can be significant for spdif transmission, by affecting jitter:http:/... | |
| 2 channel pre to multi channel amp connection Hi AJackson1,Not sure I understand what you are trying to accomplish. If you are trying to route each of the two stereo channels into four amplifier inputs, and you don't want to impact sound quality significantly, I suspect that the Behringer dev... | |
| Long ICs versus long speaker cables Dpe, Fortunately most of the Cardas cables have very low capacitance, with the Golden Cross at 25.5 pf/ft, and the Golden Reference at 12 pf/ft in single-ended form (and lower in each case in balanced form, but it looks like the LA-150 only has un... | |
| Need help identifying these cool speakers? Here is the correct url:http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f21/moth-audio-cicada-speakers-pic-144137/Regards,-- Al | |
| Need help identifying these cool speakers? Great catch about the possibility that they are Moth Cicada's.I extracted a still from the video, did some processing on it to enhance the brightness and contrast, and I found that the design of the port near the bottom (which I thought was a logo... | |
| Long ICs versus long speaker cables As was indicated, opinions on this question will be divided, and there is no unequivocally correct answer. I would add the following to what has been said, though:1)The higher the output impedance of your preamp, the more important it is to have l... | |
| M2 Tech hiFace users I agree with the suggestions of 75 ohm coaxial digital cable. I'll add that the length recommendation you may have seen in past threads here and elsewhere, indicating that a length of 1.5 meters (and not less) is optimal, seem to me to be technica... | |
| What is your favorite guitar solo of all time? who is this AMAZING GIRL?http://www.talwilkenfeld.com/Best regards,-- Al | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? Grant -- I'm not particularly familiar with the VRE-1, but I recall that it includes a jfet (active) buffer stage. Assuming that is in the signal path and is followed by a coupling transformer at the output, I'd expect the resulting output impedan... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? I don't think anyone has mentioned cable length and cable capacitance yet in this thread. Those certainly being factors that need to be kept to a minimum on the output side of a passive preamp. High output impedance into high cable capacitance (wh... | |
| Making A Monoblock out of a VK-55 Thanks, Ralph. Here is a link to the ST70 manual, in which the relevant paragraph is on page 12:http://www.curcioaudio.com/st7_mnl.pdfHowever, I think that what is being said is that to realize the 2x power increase, a 4 ohm speaker would have to ... | |
| Making A Monoblock out of a VK-55 Hi Ralph,I'm wondering how or if doing that would double output power, into a given load such as 8 ohms. As I see it, what you are doing by paralleling the channels is doubling the amount of current that is potentially available, and also halving ... | |
| Can anyone help me biasing a Jadis Defy 7? Sounds like an extremely promising discovery, Matt! The "5w" undoubtedly refers to the wattage that the resistor is rated to handle, which is consistent with the shape you are describing (a power resistor). If Brooks can't readily supply them, any... |