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| DACs and reproduced sound I have a strong personal policy of not making "ad hominem" arguments, i.e., debating a point by attacking the person making the point, rather than the point itself. However, in this case it should be pointed out that the comment quoted in Dangelod... | |
| could a different power cord cure sibilance? What Daverz said X3! Even more so if you are using a moving coil cartridge.It appears that your EAR had an input impedance for moving coil cartridges of 515 ohms. See the last paragraph under the sub-heading "The Inside" in this review: http://www... | |
| Does anyone do this ? Yes, I'd feel pretty certain that will work fine, given that it has both mm and mc inputs, and a switch to select between them. What would definitely not work fine, of course, would be connecting both turntables to a single input, which would resu... | |
| MC LOADING & STEP UP DEVICE Were you able to follow all of my previous post? If so, why can't you complete the calculation (which I think my post essentially does), and what are the "errors" you are referring to?Regards,-- Al | |
| Fuses keep blowing Re my mention of Radio Shack fuses, see the following thread for some interesting reading (although slow blow fuses were being dealt with in that situation):http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1236817549Regards,-- Al | |
| Fuses keep blowing A couple of additional thoughts, beyond the (good) possibility that it is a shorted tube, or perhaps a failing capacitor:1)Are the new fuses from Radio Shack, by any chance? If so, try some better quality fuses.2)Are the connections to your speake... | |
| iTunes and file format Changing this setting does not point iTunes to existing files. It only determines where iTunes will place any files added after that point. Thanks for correcting me on that, Herman. If you simply copy as I suggested it will continue to play the fi... | |
| Is a Grace F9-L stylus usable on a F9-E cartridge? Actually, MoFi, I believe that may not be true, surprisingly. From "Sumiko Reports" Volume 1 No. 5 dated June, 1980, in an article entitled "Improved F-9L and F-9E Cartridges Add New Eminence to the Grace Family":Thus, to answer to the varied need... | |
| Warm tube preamp for under 1000 In my last post, when I said "power amp on last and off first," to be more precise I should have said "power amp on last (after waiting some seconds for the preamp tubes to heat up sufficiently to be functional) and off first."Also, I'll add that ... | |
| iTunes and file format I think instead of simply "copying" the files to the new drive you're supposed to use the Consolidate Library function. Simply copying would lead to incorrect path/directory errors wouldn't it?Actually, Herman's excellent suggestion will end up wi... | |
| Warm tube preamp for under 1000 Re your second question, what you want to prevent is transients that may be generated at turn-on or turn-off by the preamp from being applied to a powered-up power amp. If that were to happen the transients would then be amplified, possibly to the... | |
| phono preamp crackling Although a defective phono stage is certainly a possibility (perhaps a marginal capacitor), it sounds to me like a good possibility would be that you are picking up rfi/emi (radio frequency interference/electromagnetic interference) from a fluores... | |
| USB from external hard drive to mac mini The one effect that I can envision possibly being relevant is that the quality of the shielding in the cable will affect how much rfi/emi (radio frequency interference/electromagnetic interference) is radiated from the cable, which might be picked... | |
| Ayre amplifier to Subwoofer connections Hmmm (pun intended :)). I feel quite certain that what I said is correct in terms of basic functionality, but I can't say with certainty that hum won't arise (just as it can arise in any system with unbalanced interconnections).By connecting the b... | |
| Ayre amplifier to Subwoofer connections Drubin -- Yes, you would want to connect both hots (yellow and red) to the plus output of the corresponding channel of the amp, and both subs' grounds to amp chassis. The subs' electronics sums the difference between its red and black together wit... |