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| Which budget digital cable ? Unless you are absolutely sure that your DAC maintains internal impedance at 75 ohms, get a cable that is 1.5m long. Often the difference in price over 1m is minimal. The extra length makes a huge difference in cleanness and coherence in most setu... | |
| Your expertise is needed My Phono stage's Input Impedance is 3 Ohm.I very much doubt that is correct. Phono stage input impedances are much higher, commonly 100 ohms for moving coil stages, and sometimes much more, and 47,000 ohms for moving magnets.But to answer your que... | |
| tuner to tube preamp A few questions and comments:Besides what has been mentioned, it could also conceivably be due to interference from something in an adjacent room, defective fluorescent lighting fixtures, or who knows what. What kind of an antenna are you using? D... | |
| tube amp noise No, I don't think that is normal. Given that you've changed the tubes with no improvement, I'd have to say that unfortunately it will probably be difficult to isolate. I would think the most likely bet would be a capacitor or other component that ... | |
| PLEASE HELP ME. NEED ADVICE Please see the following excellent reference:http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/an004.pdfAs you'll see, interconnect cables are usually key factors in how hum/buzz is introduced into a system. They should be kept as short as possible, and shoul... | |
| Ground loop hum Try removing the line conditioner, and any other surge suppressors or similar devices that any of the components may be plugged into. If possible, plug ALL components into the same ac outlet pair (using a power strip which does not include a surge... | |
| New amp or new cd player? will more power equate to more bass?No. Although, of course, the amp can certainly influence how accurately the bass is reproduced. But assuming that the amps being compared have similar sonic character when driving the particular speaker that is ... | |
| Digital Amplifiers See also my mini review of the Jeff Rowland 312 amplifier on issue 188 of The Absolute Sound. I believe it is on page 88.Actually it's on page 80. Nicely done and very informative for a mini-review!Regards,-- Al | |
| Digital Amplifiers You'll find this thread of interest:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1229914799Also, please note that the term "digital amplifier" is a misnomer, unless the amplifier has a digital input and a digital front end (which few of them ... | |
| Using 110v amp and CD player in 220v Is your 220V at a frequency of 60Hz or 50Hz? If 50Hz, are the converter and the audio components all rated for 50Hz operation? Also, U.S. ac voltages are typically 120 to 125 volts these days, in much of the country. If you are running them at 110... | |
| What speakers to buy to match up with my Scott 299 Stan -- I just saw your post after posting my response; great minds think alike!Regards,-- Al | |
| What speakers to buy to match up with my Scott 299 Key questions would be how big is your room, how far is the listening position from the speakers, what is the range of distances between the speakers and the walls that you would consider, and would you want floor-standing or "bookshelf" speakers ... | |
| which XLR cables? Viggen900 -- My system has always had just single-ended interconnects, so I can't offer an opinion on your original question. But what might make sense is to experiment with inexpensive but well made xlr cables, such as those used with pro audio g... | |
| which XLR cables? The main question to ask yourself, if the run isn't a long one, is: Are my components completely balanced internally so that they'll benefit from using XLR interconnects?Not sure what you mean by that. Whether or not the components are differentia... | |
| bi wire question I agree with Blindjim's suggestions as well. The following link provides what I think is a pretty good explanation of bi-wiring and its advantages, although I would expect that the magnitude of the advantages it describes would be system dependent... |