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| cd player - xlr output buzzing My guess would be that your adapter cable already shorts pin 3 to pin 1 (most xlr-to-rca adapter cables and adapters do that). And I would further guess that the reason for the problem is that the cd player, which has a low 22 ohm output impedance... | |
| Bass rant I think it is important to draw a distinction between three different categories of people who "decry their system's lack of bass," and to resist the temptation to lump them together.One would be the kind of person who has a high quality system, w... | |
| Headphone Connection Proceed AVP2 +6 It is very unlikely that you will be able to drive headphones satisfactorily directly from the Proceed. Stereo headphones typically have impedances in the range of 32 to 100 ohms or so, which is much too low to be driven from a typical line-level ... | |
| Recommendations for close miked classical recordin Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" excerpts, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, on cd on Sheffield Lab's "The Sheffield-Leinsdorf Sessions, Volume I." Or on the original 1978 direct-to-disk LP, if you can find it. Both are available at Acoustic Sounds (the... | |
| The Hub: The most influential amp ever? Correction to my previous post: It should be "Grodinsky," not "Grodinski."I also found in researching my previous post that the legendary designer Stu Hegeman was also a Radio Craftsmen alumnus.Regards,-- Al | |
| The Hub: The most influential amp ever? Bill -- I did a little Googling, and it looks like his name was Ed Miller. He apparently left Radio Craftsmen and founded Sherwood in 1953, a year or so before Sid Smith left to join Saul Marantz. So I was incorrect when I said I believed Radio Cr... | |
| The Hub: The most influential amp ever? Excellent article, Bill. Thanks!During a period of several years in the early 1990's, I owned examples of most of the pieces mentioned. I hesitate to make statements about the performance of particular models of vintage equipment, because it is ob... | |
| Help wanted. My NHT M00-S00s are whistlingI My thought was that since the whine kicks in after about 30-60 sec and ramps up in pitch and level, then stops instantly when the woofer is shuts down (about 5 sec after hitting the switch, w a significant thump, that it might be a component faili... | |
| Mirage sub with speaker level / line input only That should work fine. Powered subs typically present a very high impedance (meaning a negligible load) at their speaker-level inputs, so it will not draw significant power from your amp.For that reason, also, you don't necessarily need to use as ... | |
| vintage 6BQ5/EL-84 amp/klipsch speakers If you are considering a preamp + power amp combination (as opposed to an integrated amp), the Pilot SA-232 is widely considered to be one of the best sounding (and possibly THE best sounding) vintage 6BQ5/EL84 stereo power amps.Good luck!-- Al | |
| Input Impedance of Dreadnaught II Assuming the wording you quoted is stated precisely, I would interpret it to mean that the number you should use is 100K. "For each phase" would seem to mean 50K input impedance between "hot" (xlr pin 2) and ground; and 50K input impedance between... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... The BIOS burn in comments I was referring to have been made by guys making CMP PCs, and their claim is that to assess a BIOS change you need to make the change and then let it burn in. What does CMP stand for? Cellular multi-processing?When you sa... | |
| Help wanted. My NHT M00-S00s are whistlingI Hi Michael,Sounds like a mystifying one. I don't have any really promising theories to offer, but here are a few things that come to mind to try:1)Try moving the sub and monitors a goodly distance apart, if they are not presently set up that way.2... | |
| dustcover up, down or off It seems to me that it will be turntable dependent. I see that you have a SOTA Comet. I have a 1980's SOTA Sapphire (still works like new :)), and with that turntable it is unimaginable to me that vibrations and resonances in the cover will be tra... | |
| Class-D or switching amps, any opinions on?? My problem is with resolution. As you said TACT stated resolution from PWM is 8 bit. Where do they get required extra resolution?Kijanki, though it may seem counter-intuitive, reducing the quantization noise that results from limited resolution is... |