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| High Current SS amps with input impedance = 200K I'm currently using a Burson AB-160 buffer between my McCormack DNA-500 amp and VTL preamp. I'm waiting for it and associated cables to break in and sonics to stabilize. I'll report back with developments after it gets some significant hours on it... | |
| Audio Leveling Software Recommendation? I do audio editing with a Windows-based professionally oriented program called Sony Sound Forge Pro, which is very powerful, very stable, and very easy to use (and also expensive). I suspect that its consumer oriented counterpart, Sound Forge Audi... | |
| High Current SS amps with input impedance = 200K Newbee (& Bob), thanks very much for the kind comments; much appreciated. I've learned a good deal since I've been here from your posts, too, as well as those of all of the other regulars who've participated in this thread.My statement of "les... | |
| Anyone using a Blu-Ray player as a transport? Jane -- I did some further checking, which seems to confirm my earlier post.On page 17 (pdf page 20) of the manual for Marantz' $6000 UD9004 Blu-Ray/SACD player: "SACD's DSD signal cannot be output. Also, during CD layer playback, 44.1kHz/16-bit L... | |
| Anyone using a Blu-Ray player as a transport? I could easily be wrong about this, but I am not aware of any Blu-Ray players that will provide upsampled data at their digital audio outputs.They typically do have downsampling capability, to provide compatibility with dacs that cannot handle 96 ... | |
| High Current SS amps with input impedance = 200K Amen from me too, of course.I found the review very quickly because I was too dumb to think of looking in the component category listings. It is in the Power Amp category, because it was reviewed in conjunction with an ARC VS110 power amp. I just ... | |
| High Current SS amps with input impedance = 200K Here are Stereophile's output impedance measurements for the SP16L line-stage preamp, for which the ARC specs are identical to what Mapman quoted: http://www.stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/901/index6.htmlThe measurements indicate 262 ohms at mid a... | |
| OT Congratulations NY Yankees Dan -- I too was a kid listening to that series on a transistor radio, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY. If I recall correctly, in the three games the Yankees won they scored something like 16, 12, and 10 runs, while the Pirates scored near zero. The... | |
| OT Congratulations NY Yankees Bill Mazeroski Number 9, second base for the Pirates.And who hit a home run that defeated the Yankees in game 7 of the 1960 World Series.Dlr, I get your drift :)-- Al | |
| cd player - xlr output buzzing Good suggestion by Dave about the Jensen transformers. A number of Audiogon members have reported using them, with no perceivable sonic side-effects.There is an excellent paper at Jensen's site about interfacing balanced and unbalanced equipment:h... | |
| OT Congratulations NY Yankees Very happy here, as a long-time Yankee fan. Albeit exhausted, from three series worth of tense games, many extending late into the night.Two comments re the perennial accusation that the Yankees buy their championships:1)There are innumerable exam... | |
| cd player - xlr output buzzing I suspect that Atmasphere was thinking xlr input when he wrote his post, rather than xlr output.Heineken or Samuel Adams would be great as far as I'm concerned :)-- Al | |
| cd player - xlr output buzzing Yes, splitting the rca is perfectly safe, and the very low output impedance of the cdp will mean that any sonic effects of having two loads and two cables attached to each of the rca outputs should be negligible. Ground loop issues might still be ... | |
| cd player - xlr output buzzing Thanks Al - the difficulty I'm having in finding any consistency to testing the problem is that when it is connected to the preamp, the buzzing is only at low volumes and sometimes even disappears after a minute or two.When I use the exact same co... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? If what counts is just the music, and not the sonic quality of the recording, my nomination is "Projections," by the Blues Project, ca. 1967.Disclaimer: 95% of my collection and my listening is to classical music.Regards,-- Al |