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| Jolida integrated with remote and pre-outs? I don't know that the increase in bass damping of the main speakers would be much of an issue since you are wanting to remove the bass from them anyway. But, I guess you are saying that the bass they would still produce would not be as well contro... | |
| Jolida integrated with remote and pre-outs? Can you decode this graph they have on their site?Looks like everything from about 22Hz to 400Hz is flat to within +/- 1.5db, for sound pressure levels of a little over 90db. The graph says nothing about distortion, though.You raise a question I'v... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? Onemug -- Thanks very much for the kind comments!Turboglo -- By "unpredictable" I did not mean that performance would be inconsistent with any given system, I just meant that the effects would vary from system to system in a manner that could not ... | |
| Vintage Stereo System Appraisal No offense taken at all, Recordho. Yes, sometimes an auction will result in a feeding frenzy, if two or more people REALLY want the item, and if it is one that does not appear for sale very often. In this case, the 335 multiplex adapter is the one... | |
| Vintage Stereo System Appraisal I have or have had examples of all of those models. My first piece of advice would be to not power the equipment up if it may not have been previously powered up for a long time (meaning a considerable number of years). Vintage equipment that has ... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? The effectiveness of a balanced power arrangement, such as the Equitech provides, can particularly be expected to be both system dependent and unpredictable. That is because its effectiveness depends on the happenstance of how equal the parasitic ... | |
| Best pivoted arm for SOTA less than $1000 used If you can find one (which will take some patience), a 1980's Magnepan Unitrac unipivot arm would be a fine match. I've used that arm on a non-vacuum SOTA Sapphire since I purchased them new in 1983, currently with a Grado Reference Sonata (former... | |
| XLR waste of time ? Sam, you're very welcome. And thanks very much for the link you provided to the Rane paper, in your post dated 11/24. It is indeed, as you said, very informative, and makes the point (among many other points) that a lot of balanced equipment is de... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Ralph & Kirk,I think that the confusion (or lack thereof) between power at the clipping point and output impedance comes down to what I said in my post dated 11/24. It is important to clearly maintain a distinction, in discussions such as we h... | |
| XLR waste of time ? JimJoyce25: It sounds as if the conclusions being voiced here are based more on philosophical creed, rather than on experimentation----at least not recent experimentation.Since either type of connector can be used on either type of cable, the comp... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw, I think that the scenarios you have cited pinpoint some important points that underly some of the disagreements which have been rampant in this thread.In my two posts dated 11/20, one of the things that I tried to express, but perhaps didn't ... | |
| What floats your boat, sound wise that it? I find listening to a well done, well reproduced recording to be a real "upper" (meaning very stimulating), and in fact I avoid listening if I want to get to sleep within the following couple of hours. I don't generally listen to my system as back... | |
| Recommendation for Wall Mounted Speaker This thread offers some suggestions that may be worth looking into, although it is from about three years ago so the spcific models offered by the manufacturers that are mentioned may have changed:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&... | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp Glad to hear it, Marty. But I'm truly surprised, given all the reasons I cited as to why it was unlikely to be due to speaker cable pickup. So somehow what was being picked up in those cables was making its way back to the front end of the integra... | |
| Double down, good or bad? What the Voltage Paradigm seeks to do is call an amplifier a 'voltage source' when it refers to an amplifier that makes constant voltage into any load (i.e. doubles its power as the load impedance is cut in half). For the benefit of others who may... |