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| Can I Drive More Speakers With My 2ch Integrated? The two additional pairs of speakers would not "only respond to the Krell's volume control," they would respond to both volume controls. If I understand your question correctly, I would think you would set the volume control on the Krell to where ... | |
| Live with A Hum vs. Buy An Outboard Phono Stage Newbee -- Here's his original thread:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1233446646His preamp is a NAD 1155, which I assume is solid state.I think he shorted the phono inputs by connecting interconnect cables to them, and at the othe... | |
| ARC REF 110 amp ohms The speakers are spec'd at 8 +3/-3 ohms, and I would think that the specified tolerance implies that is the range of variation of the impedance vs. frequency curve. So the best bet is likely to be the 8 ohm taps.Regards,-- Al | |
| Live with A Hum vs. Buy An Outboard Phono Stage Lee -- Towards the end of your original thread about this problem the hum disappeared, returned, and disappeared again as you did various things (reversing plug polarities, separating and shielding components, etc). Obviously it has now returned o... | |
| Sub output: Is it the woofer size or the rated RMS It stands to reason that for a given cost it is easier to design and manufacture a smaller driver that will be more accurate than a larger driver, with respect to the inevitable tradeoffs between cone resonances, stiffness, transient response, ove... | |
| 8 Ohm speaker with 4 ohm subwoofer? Rdylan -- Assuming the Energy sub is a powered sub, with a built-in amplifier, and the inputs are high-level/high impedance (rather than speaker-level/low impedance), you are not putting too much of a load on the amp. The REL's are like that, but ... | |
| You're probably listening too loud It all depends on the dynamic range of the music. A lot of my listening is to classical symphonic music, usually on well engineered recordings (meaning with little or no dynamic range compression). I would definitely feel that I'm missing out if I... | |
| 8 Ohm speaker with 4 ohm subwoofer? So when you hook up a sub this way, the amp has no extra load on it? What happens to the amplified signal once it gets to the high level input?That is correct with respect to most or all of the REL subwoofers, when their high level inputs are used... | |
| Weak Link If i were to spend, say, $1500, would it be wiser to invest in a HQ, high resolution CD player that is known for good PRaT? (say, a Naim cd5i mkII) or a similarly priced, more open and more revealing set of speakers?Obviously there will be diverge... | |
| 8 Ohm speaker with 4 ohm subwoofer? I'm not particularly familiar with that REL model, but I believe that what you would be connecting to the Jolida would be the inputs to the amplifier that is built into the REL, and that the input impedance of the REL's amplifier is something like... | |
| Weak Link So you are saying that in the dealer showroom you listened to your amp and a cd player that was the same model as yours, and they sounded much better. Given that, and given that usually the most significant determinants of overall sound quality an... | |
| I am sick of cables I would like to see some investigative reports into the lifestyle of some of these cable purveyors. Some of them may be living in a similar style to the 'geniuses' on Wall St. On the other hand, perhaps they're not, in which case it would seem the... | |
| I am sick of cables What drives the cost of expensive cables (aside from markups) is the use of exotic materials and construction techniques. I think that the fundamental problem here is that there is little or no established science supporting a correlation between ... | |
| I am sick of cables I think there is a lot of truth in what you are saying. See the following for what I consider to be an exceptionally intelligent and balanced (no pun intended) explanation of why cables can and do sound different, which at the same time puts into ... | |
| whats the finest recorded cd you've heard? Most of my listening has been on vinyl, but among the hundred or so cd's in my collection I would say Dvorak's "New World Symphony," Chesky CD31, conducted by Jascha Horenstein, and recorded in 1962!As has often been said, what counts is usually n... |