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| How loud do you like to play your music? well ad/dc foos and stuff like that, loud 110 db at least blue nile 80. it can be quite earth shakin in my 10 x 12 room w/ 2 dna 500's monoed? with a pr of zu's so how loud depends on the amount of power i can get out wall outlet w/ a 20 amp break... | |
| How to split pre out to connect power amp and sub Re the resistor, this is the particular one I suggested, which is probably what you've just looked at:http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062288&tab=summaryThe photo appears to not include the full length of the wires coming... | |
| How to split pre out to connect power amp and sub Is it not enough to run the sub or is it not considered as a speaker ? If that's the case, how do you normally use the preout then ? What is important to avoid the possibility of damage that I described is that the speaker outputs of the MC-30 (wh... | |
| Light bulbs are constanly burning out Nick -- Yes, let's see what it does at other times during the day and night, although higher demand would figure to lower rather than raise the voltage (due to increased losses in the wiring), as you appear to realize. And I'll defer to the commen... | |
| Light bulbs are constanly burning out Can I check the voltage myself with a multimeter? If so how?Yes. Set the multimeter to read AC Volts, on a scale such as 0 to 300 volts or some such number that will assure it won't be driven past the upper limit of the scale. Make sure that the t... | |
| Vacuum Tube Display Case It might be worthwhile emailing one of the officers of the Tube Collectors Association and asking their advice, and if they can point you to a supplier of suitable mounting bases and/or display cases.For storage, as opposed to display, you can fin... | |
| Light bulbs are constanly burning out Has someone there measured the line voltage? If not, that would seem to be the logical first step. If the voltage is too high, that would certainly explain the frequent bulb burn-outs, if not the breaker trips, and perhaps the power company could ... | |
| Power Amp Doubling Output at 4 Ohm The Pass Labs, which doubles power as impedance is halved produces better tonal balance and bass control, than did the NuForce amp, which has a significantly lower output impedance.TVAD -- I'm sure that your observations were accurate, at least wi... | |
| Power Amp Doubling Output at 4 Ohm Simply put, if everything else is equal an amplifier that can double power into 4 ohms compared to 8 ohms can supply more current to the speaker than one that cannot double power. Lower speaker impedances require more current, everything else bein... | |
| How to split pre out to connect power amp and sub Solst1ce -- As I indicated above, whether or not doing that results in sonic degradation would depend on whether the combined input impedances of the sub and the power amp (and the third device, if you choose to split three ways) remains much larg... | |
| How to split pre out to connect power amp and sub A further thought: Since the Shanling has such a low power output, that would make it readily practicable to substitute a resistor for the speaker load which would no longer be connected to it. Doing so would completely eliminate the possibility o... | |
| How to split pre out to connect power amp and sub P.S. The comments in my previous post about the y-adapter and impedance matching are based on the assumption that your sub has separate left and right channel inputs, or alternatively that you have a separate sub for each channel. Upon re-reading ... | |
| How to split pre out to connect power amp and sub There is a more significant issue to what you are proposing to do, which is that a tube amp should NEVER be operated without a speaker load, at least while music is being played through it, or it is likely to suffer serious damage (such as a blown... | |
| Micro Acoustics vs Grace F-9 MM's How would these cartridges compare to a Grado Reference Sonata.Bob -- I have used an F9E Ruby for many years (which I'll probably have re-tipped by Soundsmith in the near future), and I recently purchased a high output Reference Sonata.I haven't h... | |
| How large is your music collection? AlMarg: 600 LP's; 100 CD's; 80 CassettesThought I'd add a bit of additional info to my previous post:About 90% classical; 10% rock and miscellaneous.About 1/3 of the collection consists of either releases from audiophile-oriented smaller labels, o... |