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| Music Hall mmf-7 spins faster It is indeed in the right groove, Eddaytona: the smaller one (and the larger one, as indicated, when I am using the Speed Box II).Where is "as indicated" indicated? The Speed Box appears to output 16 volts ac (VAC), while the MMF-7 appears to come... | |
| Decco USB Connect Not found by Windows XP PC The manual for the Decco indicates that no special drivers are required. And if you are seeing USB2 indicated in Device Manager it would SEEM to confirm that your Windows installation is sufficiently up to date to be able to handle the port withou... | |
| Solid state recorders Yes, that's pretty poor especially considering that it is intended to record with up to 24 bit resolution. The portable Sound Devices 702 that I mentioned, costing just a few hundred dollars more, has WAY better signal-to-noise and other numbers, ... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query NSGarch:With all cartridges except those with the stiffest suspensions, as long as you can see the cantilever from the front of the cartridge, it's quite easy to set AS force visually. I always did it that way with my MM Shure cartridges. You just... | |
| Electro-Voice Ev-6 A pair in nice condition sold recently for $790 on eBay, item no. 380156911074. The listing includes lots of nice photos.A 1991 Orion bluebook I have indicates that they originally cost $666, and were sold from 1964 to 1968. That bluebook indicate... | |
| CDs with heavy, fast bass and/or long drum solos If you feel like testing the limit of the woofer, I'd highly recommend Tchaikovsky 1812. Telarc issued SACD with Erich Kunzel and Cincinatti Pops has thunderous cannon fires that will stress test the power amps and woofers.Careful with that one! :... | |
| CDs with heavy, fast bass and/or long drum solos I second MoFi's suggestion of the Sheffield disk. It is available from Acoustic Sounds in both cd and xrcd form.Following the release of the Sheffield Track Record in 1982, which is one of the two originally direct-to-disk lp's which are included ... | |
| Cutting Voltage / Gain from DAC directly? volume Undertow,If it is a simple inverting op amp configuration, with a single-ended input and a single-ended output, then yes changing a 10K feedback resistor to 5K would cut the gain of the stage in half. However, there are several complicating factor... | |
| Passive Preamps Also keep in mind that with a passive preamp both the length and the capacitance per unit length of the interconnect going to the power amp should be as small as possible, because of the high output impedance which passive preamps will inevitably ... | |
| Uses for "tape-out" on a preamp I use tape connections for several purposes:1)My Stax headphone amplifier requires a line-level input and has its own volume control, so I drive that from tape outputs.2)I use the phono amplifier section of a Mark Levinson ML-1 preamplifier as my ... | |
| Y power cable for Monoblocks Hi Nick,I think that most of the comments on protection that were in your last post make a lot of sense under your particular circumstances. But I want to point out, fwiw, that fuses in your equipment are very unlikely to provide meaningful protec... | |
| How to keep ic's and power cords from touching Aptquark's post immediately above makes a very good point, as confirmed by this excellent paper written by a noted authority:http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/an004.pdfRegards,-- Al | |
| Heavy Speakers with Spikes on a Concrete Floor Concrete weakens and enormously muddies the bass while rolling off and harshening the trebleI suppose "rolling off" and "harshening" could be reconciled in terms of, say, an emphasis in the 3 to 6kHz region followed by a rolloff above that. But I ... | |
| communication cable between Levinson amp/pre-amp? After checking a little further, I believe this is exactly what you want (note that various lengths are available):http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=707&sku=09600A 6-pin 6-conductor cable is RJ12, btw, not RJ45.Regards,-- Al | |
| communication cable between Levinson amp/pre-amp? The cable is described in the manuals, which are linked to below. It looks like it is not a standard ethernet cable (e.g., CAT6), but you should be able to buy some inexpensive parts and make it yourself. Note that the preamp to power amp cable is... |