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| When did the Hi-Fi sound mature? Yes, that's right. I believe that John Curl designed all of the JC-designated products for both MLAS and, in recent years, for Parasound.Regards,-- Al | |
| back to ask again long sorry Ok, that's great that you have a friend who is an electrician.An isolation transformer would eliminate problems with dc offsets, assuming the offset was not so severe that it would cause the transformer itself to overheat or have other problems. B... | |
| power conditioning vs. power regeneration? A power regenerator is an electronic component which contains internally a 60Hz oscillator driving a high capacity power amplifier. Its 60Hz output is what powers the audio system, and the ac from the wall is only used to power the regenerator its... | |
| When did the Hi-Fi sound mature? Re no. 4, I should also have mentioned the name of the late Tom Colangelo, who succeeded John Curl as Mark Levinson's chief designer, and was responsible for most of the "ML"-designated models.The original company (under Mark Levinson the person) ... | |
| When did the Hi-Fi sound mature? 1. When did quality "HiFi" first enter people's homes in reasonable numbers?2. When did "HiFi" or full spectrum recordings become widely available?3. When did turntable and cartridge technology achieve a moderate level of accuracy in speed, noise ... | |
| back to ask again long sorry Good suggestions, Lloyd, but I think the possibility should be kept in mind that the root cause of the problem may be the power wiring or delivery, but that root cause may in turn have already damaged a component (such as by causing excess leakage... | |
| Beyond Chutzpah Yes, that's definitely the best laugh of the day. A lot of people seem to equate rarity with value, especially a lot of eBay sellers. They don't realize that it takes rarity + desirability to create a high value for an older item.As an antique rad... | |
| back to ask again long sorry I agree with the AA person. What he is saying is very similar to what I had suggested. When I said that I felt the likelihood of a dc offset situation was minimal I was unaware of the hot transformer and hum symptoms, although I still feel that a ... | |
| Daisy chaining XLR cables I agree with Crna39 and Driver. I too have worked with xlr cables in conjunction with pro audio equipment.there are a very select few who have the ability to hear any change to the signal pathI suspect that in at least some of those cases differen... | |
| back to ask again long sorry "Static buildup in capacitors" sounds to me like a non-technical person trying to be technical. Also, static is most severe when humidity is very low, which is the opposite of what you've got in Florida.In principle there shouldn't be significant ... | |
| Speaker match with Spectral? My understanding, based on exposure to friends' systems over the years, is that Thiel's have always verged on having over-emphasized and/or over-extended treble. Spectral has always designed their products with ultra-wide bandwidth, as far as I am... | |
| back to ask again long sorry How do I "use a multimeter to check if one of the AC runs is miswired"? And how do I "orient" a two-prong plug? How do I diagnose, and what do I do about, an "open AC neutral run"?Set the multimeter to read ac volts, on a scale that is greater tha... | |
| back to ask again long sorry Ok, so it sounds like the plasma, the blue-ray player, and the power conditioner are not responsible. Behind my other suggestions was the thought that one of your ac runs may be miswired, which at some point in the past may have damaged a part suc... | |
| back to ask again long sorry My suggestion would be to unplug the plasma tv, blue-ray player, and all power conditioners. Then plug all of the stereo gear directly into the SAME ac outlet, on the dedicated ac circuit, using a power strip to provide enough outlets (preferably ... | |
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