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| Want to Blow Up My Stereo Have you ever not had this problem with these speakers?I can't formulate a theory that fits all of the facts that you have stated, but I'm wondering if one of the speakers might have the connections to one of its drivers or one of its crossover el... | |
| 120V or 240V Good point, Jim, and that does seem conceivable to me, especially if the interconnects to this amp are single-ended (I don't know if they are single-ended or balanced).With the amps running off of 240V, both sides of the primary of the power trans... | |
| 120V or 240V A third possible difference, that I should have included in my previous post:3)Leakage currents between the ac input and chassis/circuit ground in the amp, that might flow through parasitic capacitances or resistances in the power transformer, wou... | |
| 120V or 240V I think you are proceeding correctly with the 120V version, for the reasons stated by the others who advocated doing that.The only technical differences I can envision that would result from running on 240V are:1)Less current would flow in the pow... | |
| Hard Drive versus Optical Drive Clio -- My understanding is that firewire is not being phased out by Mac. What has happened is that firewire 400 has been superseded on Mac products by firewire 800, which uses a different connector. However, adapter cables are readily available w... | |
| Where to insert XLR "Y" Adaptor Hi Peter,Sounds good. I have no particular knowledge, though, of any subtleties that you might need to be aware of in assembling the cables, or of the different Neutrik's.I too use Mogami's Neglex Quad cables, btw, in a three-foot length, between ... | |
| Where to insert XLR "Y" Adaptor Splitting it near the amp/sub results in the shortest total cable, but it requires one more connection (male to female Neutrik plugs) than two parallel runs originating at a preamp split. The latter approach allows the signal delivery to the amps/... | |
| Where to insert XLR "Y" Adaptor Interesting question. I would think, considering that the L-4000's output impedance is low (150 ohms) and is described as being constant with frequency, and considering that the connections are all balanced, it may not make any difference which of... | |
| Hard Drive versus Optical Drive My feeling is that it is an example of a phenomenon that happens frequently in high end audio. An advantage that a certain design approach or technology may have, which at best is significant only marginally and occasionally, is viewed without pro... | |
| Ia a good amp more important than a good DAC? If you feed any amp garbage as the source it will not be able to compensate for those shortcomings. Period. End of story. Marco, along the lines of my earlier comments, I respectfully disagree with that contention. Yes, garbage in = garbage out. ... | |
| Lynx AES16e No, it does not. The BNC is for inputting or outputting a word clock signal, which may be necessary in some applications to synchronize with other cards or external devices.Some of the other Lynx cards offer SPDIF compatibility, although there are... | |
| Does Technology Trump Quality? I longed to hear speakers of differing technology, hence differing sound which is an issue beyond quality. It was the inability of one speaker to meet all these desires to hear radically different presentations which prompted me to struggle with t... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Lincoln Walsh, who lived from 1903 to 1971, and whose Brook Amplifier Company produced legendary high quality 300B and 2A3 amplifiers in the early 1950's. Brook amplifiers are now highly collectible, btw, and command extremely high prices on the r... | |
| LSR&D 1000w. Leach Superamp? You might want to try to contact Professor Leach directly. His email address is indicated on his Georgia Tech page here.My understanding, though, is that the Superamp was a mono amp, and so it would not have been bridgeable. Perhaps the 1000W indi... | |
| Doesn't DAC Do Heavy Lifting vs. Transport? Slight correction to my previous post: With a FIFO-based approach, if 10 seconds of storage were nominally required, the FIFO itself would probably be sized to hold 20 seconds worth of data, and playback would commence when it filled up half-way. ... |