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| Fuse problem:cannot understand what i'm missing I don't think you're missing anything. Sounds like "slow" means something different to Radio Shack's supplier than it means to the other suppliers.If you go to digikey.com or mouser.com (which are leading electronics distributors) you'll be able t... | |
| Speaker wire guage for surround rear speakers Here is a link that contains a table of resistance per unit length (ohms/kilofoot) for the different wire gauges:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gaugeYou will see that 14 gauge is about 2.5 ohms per kilofoot, which would be about 0.2 oh... | |
| Speaker wires near AC wires I agree with Mapman -- nothing to worry about. Four inches sounds like very reasonable separation, especially where the length of the parallelism is small. Also, the very low impedance levels of an amp/speaker interface, and the fact that there is... | |
| Best CD Most of my favorite classical recordings (not necessarily performances of music) will appear on Hyperion, Dorian, Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, Reference Recordings, Mercury Living Presence, Telarc, Delos, and Dorian.Sheffield Labs Drum track on XRCDI ... | |
| Rega P25. Getting radio signals thru interconnects You'll want to read through this thread, in which a similar problem was successfully resolved:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1230309974Regards,-- Al | |
| Why gold? One thing that should be avoided where possible is having dissimilar materials on connectors that are mated together. A lot of sources indicate that, for example, mating a nickel-plated jack with a gold-plated plug can hasten corrosion, due to ele... | |
| Ayre amplifier to Subwoofer connections So if you were to connect the two sides of a balanced output into a single-ended input, and both components had 3-prong ac plugs, you would be grounding one of the two balanced signal outputs. Depending on the design of the output circuit, that co... | |
| Ayre amplifier to Subwoofer connections I believe it will work ok either way, but connecting sub negative to amplifier chassis ground is probably preferable in that it would avoid possible problems or damage if at some point in the future the sub ground inadvertently became common. The ... | |
| Fuse equivalent http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=sGAEpiMZZMseCiJT91fwInvVtKgvvYZHohpcBQu9vck%3dRegards,-- Al | |
| Speaker cable for 25 foot run With a run of that length you'll want to be careful with respect to gauge selection, particularly for the low-frequency cable in your bi-wire arrangement. The 805s spec sheet recommends a maximum cable resistance of 0.1 ohms (which I think is prob... | |
| power cord length There is no technical reason why it can't be as short as you like. But obviously it must be well constructed, so that it does not develop an internal short or open if stepped on, pulled, etc. And if it lacks UL approval, there could be a problem w... | |
| Accuphase Preamp using XLR pin 3 hot Kirkus,Yes, you're right -- thanks for the correction. No phase reversal is required because there is no net phase inversion through the preamp, since pin 3 is hot at both its input and its output.Regards,-- Al | |
| Accuphase Preamp using XLR pin 3 hot Yes, that's correct. Alternatively, you could interchange the + and - connections on each speaker.Regards,-- Al | |
| USB 2.0 does 96Hz? USB1.1 has a maximum data rate of 12 megabits per second, or 1.5 megaBytes per second. USB2, which was introduced in 2001 and is present these days on most computers and most devices that have usb ports, has a theoretical maximum data rate of 480 ... | |
| Can "Digital" damage my gear? My feeling is, and my (extensive) computer experience has been, that if you use a good anti-virus program, have a good firewall in place, keep your Windows patches up to date, and don't visit or download from questionable sites, viruses are not a ... |