almarg
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| Total spent on music vs equipment? Music (mostly classical): -- 600 LP's: $5K-- 100 CD's: $1KTotal: $6KSystem (take your pick as to which number to use):-- Actual investment in current system: $13K-- Actual investment including gains/losses on equipment sold: $18K-- Total msrp of c... | |
| Best Carver stereo solid state amplifier design I owned both the original M400, the cube-shaped amplifier in which Carver introduced his magnetic field power supply technology, and the subsequent M400t version.The original M400 sounded quite poor. The M400t sounded surprisingly good, and was ce... | |
| Has anyone bi-amped with a Cary SLP-05? P.S: I just noticed in your system description that the woofer impedance "gets down to 2 ohms." I think that strongly reinforces the theory I have offered.-- Al | |
| Has anyone bi-amped with a Cary SLP-05? I notice this statement in the manual for the CAD200:Short circuit protection activates if load impedance is about 1.6 ohms or less.I'm not sure how the protection circuit would sense what the load impedance is, but presumably it would do it by so... | |
| Has anyone bi-amped with a Cary SLP-05? Also, if at all possible try to arrange for the impedance measurements to provide the phase angle of the impedance (vs. frequency), not just the magnitude of the impedance (vs. frequency). That will allow the inductive, capacitive, and resistive c... | |
| Has anyone bi-amped with a Cary SLP-05? To clarify matters I am going to ask an engineer friend of mine to help measure the impedance curve of the woofers. I do not understand why the SS power amp is happy to power the speakers full range, but not happy to power the woofers alone.That s... | |
| Has anyone bi-amped with a Cary SLP-05? SLP05-> (RCA)-> Cary CAD211AE-> mid/tweetSLP05-> (XLR)-> Cary CAD200-> woofer(Bi-amped). Result: CAD211AE works, CAD200 produces no sound from woofer.SLP05-> (XLR)-> Cary CAD200-> mid/tweetSLP05-> (RCA)-> Cary CAD2... | |
| tone arm drifts towards the outside when lowering Check your antiskating by carefully viewing the cartridge head-on while a record is being played. Viewed from that perspective, the cantilever should be at the same left vs. right angle relative to the cartridge body that it is at when the stylus ... | |
| Cassette deck source/tape monitor switch Yes, I agree with Arnold's response. The only way to route the deck's output into your system is to use the preamp's input selector switch to select the aux or other line-level input to which the deck is connected. When you do that, you are no lon... | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced - What does it mean? Yes, that sounds right, Bob. An adapter cable built with coax would provide much worse noise rejection than one built with shielded twisted pair, because of both the lack of physical symmetry between the two signal conductors, and because of the n... | |
| Cassette deck source/tape monitor switch After making my previous post, I found a picture of the rear panel of the Prologue 3, which shows it as having a pair of tape out jacks. So you apparently CAN select one of the other source components which may be connected to the preamp, and have... | |
| Cassette deck source/tape monitor switch The monitor switch on the deck selects whether the output signals from the deck are derived from what is coming off the tape, or from what is going into the deck's record inputs.If you just want to play back tapes, you can hook the deck's outputs ... | |
| Step Down Transformer NGJockey -- Excellent and very informative post. Thanks!Regards,-- Al | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced - What does it mean? Bob Reynolds: It may not have been clear from the other posts, but there is zero advantage (other than the XLR being a better connector) of connecting the unbalanced signal from your preamp to the balanced input of your amp; there will be no noise... | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced - What does it mean? Cam -- No, I think that Shadorne was speaking in more general terms, and the issue he cited about overdriving consumer-oriented gear with pro-oriented signals is not applicable to your situation. It would be a concern if the outputs of a pro-orien... |