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| What makes a Digital Interconnect My curiosity piqued, I did a few minutes of detective work and figured out which cables are being referred to. I notice that their higher-end digital cable (let's call it cable Z), which costs a bit more than four times as much as cable Y, has muc... | |
| What makes a Digital Interconnect Well, that's more like it, in terms of the shield inductance being less than the inductance of the center conductor. However, 2.6uH and 65pf computes to a characteristic impedance of 200 ohms. So I'm at a loss to explain how it could be a 75 ohm c... | |
| FM frequencies cut out by CD player I've seen good comments about the ST-2, and also about the Crane "Reflect". Check out this thread.My suspicion is that any decent antenna, placed some distance from the cdp and connected to the tuner via coax, will resolve the interference problem... | |
| FM frequencies cut out by CD player How can these two phenomenon be related?They are not related, they are two separate issues. RCPrince correctly addressed the issue of crosstalk between inputs that is occurring in the preamp.Mlsstl offered some good suggestions concerning the issu... | |
| Music Hall mmf-7 spins faster Wow! Seems counter-intuitive, though, that a loose fit between the rod and the pulley would result in too fast a speed. Too slow a speed, or an erratic speed, certainly would be understandable. In any event, glad it's solved!Regards,-- Al | |
| Double down, good or bad? In the case of the B&W, the woofers are in parallel (4 ohms) and are 3 db less efficient than the 8 ohm midrange and tweeter; if a transistor amp is used it will have double the power into the 4 ohm portion of the impedance curve, thus driving... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Awesome and informative post, Kirk! Thanks.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Shopping for a new netbook or laptop... Every inexpensive windows system I've had has crashed, or severely slowed down over time. Probably something to do with the way the operating systems function, software compatiability etc.That is a common experience among Windows PC users, but it ... | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp Hi Marty,Yes, those things could certainly pick up low level rf energy. But as I explained above it seems very unlikely that pickup on the speaker wires could result in audible sound. And the rca inputs presumably wouldn't have been able to pick u... | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp Hmm ... It's hard to envision how an FM signal could be detected/decoded by your integrated amplifier into something resembling intelligible voice or music, assuming that is indeed happening. AM would be a different story, and more easily explaina... | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp Is it possible the amp could sound good and still have a cold solder joint somewhere along a signal ground path?Yes, that certainly is conceivable, Jim, although of course it would be very difficult to troubleshoot.Marty, I realize that this is al... | |
| Inexpensive XLR cable for SUB Mogami Gold Studio pro cables are well respected and not particularly expensive:http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/318716-REG/Mogami_GOLD_STUDIO_50_Gold_Studio_XLR_Male.htmlBlue Jeans offers xlr cables as well as rca's:http://www.bluejeanscable... | |
| Shopping for a new netbook or laptop... FWIW, I have Windows-based laptops made by Sager and by Asus, and I previously owned another Sager. All of them have been very reliable (the first Sager failed after 6 years of heavy use), and I've been very pleased with their performance (running... | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp Jim, I really doubt that the writeup you referenced is applicable in this case. It is dealing with the situation where a ham radio transmitter, which typically may be outputting several hundred or even 1000 watts of rf energy, is interfering with ... | |
| What makes a Digital Interconnect Good quote from Charles Lamb, Stan. I'll have to remember that one!For the op's info, 110 ohm digital cables are typically used with xlr connectors for transmitting balanced aes/ebu digital signals. 75 ohm cables are typically used for unbalanced ... |