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| How to fix my detailed, accurate but BRIGHT system I'm not disagreeing with your discussion of low output impedance. However, in rereading Harley's discussion of power output into varying impedance loads, and the resulting loudspeakers' varying dbW (decibel watts) measurements, he makes no mention... | |
| How to fix my detailed, accurate but BRIGHT system ItÂ’s funny the notes of system fixes follow the trends of their posters. Gear houhnds point to the gear as the bug a boos, room treatment aficionadosÂ’ allude respectively to adding items there, cable mavens exclaim buy better wires, etc. well, to ... | |
| How to fix my detailed, accurate but BRIGHT system Al,I cross-posted with you, so I hadn't read your post, before I posted.Are you saying that an erratic electrical speaker impedance curve doesn't actually present a more difficult load to the amplifier in this case, because it's still within the a... | |
| How to fix my detailed, accurate but BRIGHT system These speakers are best driven by an amp that doubles power output as impedance is halved... so that the volume in the bass is equal to the volume in the mids and highs. Your Butler 2250 does not double power as impedance is halved.... The result ... | |
| Any point in adding tube preamp to SS integrated? Good comments by the others, with which I am in general agreement. But fwiw I'll mention that for various reasons, on several occasions with several different pieces of equipment, I have used a preamplifier connected into a line-level input of an ... | |
| Dahlquist speakers I have no knowledge of the 12's, but with respect to the 10's, based on having auditioned them around 1983, I would say "potentially." However, keep in mind that they are around 35 years old, and both the drivers (especially the surrounds) and som... | |
| Who has dumped the power conditioner? I don't question anyone's good intentions here, and I certainly don't question the quality of the product. But it seems to me that as a matter of both common sense and basic good ethics, when a product is praised and the person praising it has a f... | |
| Need to be educated re: MC Step-up transformers Outstanding, Brent! Thanks for the well written update.Regards,-- Al | |
| 30 ft rca run too long for a phono to preamp? Audiolui -- Although it wasn't made completely clear in the original post, and I too was initially confused, the connection in question is between phono stage and preamp, not cartridge and phono stage.Regards,-- Al | |
| 30 ft rca run too long for a phono to preamp? Both components have only unbalanced connections. Thirty feet is really pushing it, but fortunately the phono stage output impedance is only 100 ohms (which in fact is considerably lower than the preamp's output impedance of 440 ohms). That should... | |
| Upgrading wall outlets Al , they do make a difference. At least if you have dedicated lines. Like the poster above I put one on a standard line and didn't notice much, if any, change. I had not expected much change on my dedicated lines but it was in line with 883Dave's... | |
| Upgrading wall outlets The premium outlet (like PS Audio's PowerPort) that I am using does make a big difference. In fact, it was one of the best upgrade I have ever made in my audio life. I am not an engineer. I can't explain why.If you were an engineer you wouldn't be... | |
| Can you lower gain requirements on tube amp? It is often said that a good rule of thumb for putting db volume changes in perspective is that a 10db increase subjectively sounds "twice as loud."It is also important to keep in mind that the subjective perception of loudness is highly dependent... | |
| Mark Levinson ML-1 power supply It may be helpful for you to know that the model number of the power supply is PLS-150.You can find pictures and further information here:http://www.marklev.comI doubt that the present Mark Levinson/Harman International company will be of much hel... | |
| Long Speaker cables You'll find this thread to be of interest:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1244061809Regards,-- Al |