almarg
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| Can "Digital" damage my gear? Software engineer, I work with, says that Fourier analysis of such size files will take forever. He participates in SETI program and does analysis of small files on his computer. Ideal would be small crude scanner program that looks for high ampli... | |
| Simple iTunes Question If you are using Windows XP, and assuming your library is in the default location ("My Music"), click the "Start" button and then "My Music." Single click the iTunes folder you will see, so that it is highlighted. When you do that, a link will app... | |
| Heavy Power Cords The IEC connector is one of the worst form of electrical plug and receptacle devices ever made. OT: I vote for the 1/8" stereo mini-plug and jack. Followed closely by the 1/4" headphone plug and jack. Neither can be counted on to maintain contact ... | |
| Can "Digital" damage my gear? Hi Kijanki -- yes, it's certainly conceivable that a malicious download containing high power signals at 20kHz or so could burn out a tweeter, without being audible (to many of us, anyway!). If you have concern about a particular download or cd, a... | |
| How to run speaker wires... Twisted pair cabling for digital signals, such as CAT5e and other ethernet cabling, is twisted for three reasons. First, it results in reduced cross-talk between the pair of wires carrying the "transmit" signal (going from, say, device 1 to device... | |
| How is it ? that a tuner smokes the table ??? haha, your funnyyour missing the point big time !haha you guys are hilarious, but I am dead serious.Jim -- Just a friendly suggestion: It's impossible to tell who or what you are responding to. Consider using the markup tags that are explained in ... | |
| “Real” bass vs. “Boom” — how do you know which? Consider purchasing "The Sheffield Drum and Track Disc," available from Acoustic Sounds and others. It is a reissue on cd of two noted direct-to-disk recordings from the early 1980's, containing extremely powerful, yet taut and accurate, drum set ... | |
| How is it ? that a tuner smokes the table ??? I've owned many high quality vintage tube tuners over the years, as well as some more recent solid state ones, including the legendary REL Precedent (from 1954; and that's Radio Engineering Laboratories, no relation to the modern subwoofer manufac... | |
| Strange amplifier problem Sounds like a bad capacitor or a tube with an internal short is causing excessive plate current to flow through the left channel output tube(s) and transformer. See if the plates of any of those tubes are glowing red, which would confirm this. If ... | |
| "tube watts" versus "solid state watts" Thought I'd expand a bit on my previous response. An example of how amplifiers are rated (which is done in accordance with requirements that are imposed, I believe, by the Federal Trade Commission), is as follows:100 watts/channel continuous rms p... | |
| "tube watts" versus "solid state watts" My question is: is there any basis in electrical engineering for this effect? Can we say scientifically what's going on here?Yes we can. There are probably several factors that are involved, but I believe that the most significant one is that soli... | |
| So Much "Harshness" I did not plug the TT-PSU into the conditioner when I tried it, just the other electronics. It still had a very negative effect on the sound when the turntable was the source. Learsfool -- It seems to me that the resulting isolation between the ac... | |
| Balanced vs Single ended? I concur with the previous comments, but I'll add that a balanced interface is more likely to be beneficial if you are using multiple dedicated ac power runs to your system.That is often done to minimize noise coupling from digital components into... | |
| 4 ohm, 8 ohm or 16 ohm tap on amp for quad 57 I haven't, but if you haven't seen it before here is it's impedance curve:http://www.quadesl.com/quad_main.htmlLots of interesting links, also, if you click on "reference info" at the left of that page.The speaker is basically a giant capacitor, a... | |
| So Much "Harshness" I would argue that there is a good reason many people believe that the best sounding orchestral recordings, for one example, were those made in the 50's and early 60's with just a couple of mikes hung either far out into the hall or far above the... |