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| MIT cables and super tweeters I will add to this post, I have known many electrical engineers who think a resistor is a resistor, and a capacitor is a capacitor.... all the same not all, but many.FWIW, I am not one of them, and the differences (or at least some of the differen... | |
| MIT cables and super tweeters I am wondering, how much listening time have Mapman and Almarg spent with any Mit cables much less top of the line products.In my case, none. But as I said above: I don't doubt that MIT cables will sound very good on some systems-- Al | |
| MIT cables and super tweeters 1)Mapman -- I agree with your well put comments and perspective.2)High frequency information travels electrically through the cable at a different speed than low-frequencies. Nonsense. And even if it weren't nonsense (which it is), considering tha... | |
| MIT cables and super tweeters Although I don't doubt that MIT cables will sound very good on some systems, and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, I must say that as an electrical engineer (who DOES believe that cables can and do sound significantly different), I have perh... | |
| Phono Stage Hum I'm totally confused by what the dealer told you. As I indicated, 70db phono stage gain for your 4mv cartridge does seem a bit excessive. But "no gain" is absurdly too low -- that would say that on loud passages only about 4mv would be going into ... | |
| Phono Stage Hum Not sure what you mean by having the phono stage set to no gain. The specs at the Jolida site show 70db gain for moving magnets (which seems like a lot, btw). And I assume you have its riaa equalization in the path.Is the hum equal in both channel... | |
| Preamp inverts phase question: Will the mono setting on my preamp help me in any way to determine correct phase via listening tests?Well, maybe a little bit, by cancelling out the stereo information and simplifying the sounds you are listening to.As you probably realize, the mo... | |
| preamp gain in relation to whole systems help This attenuator has been recommended by some others here at Audiogon in previous threads:http://www.rothwellelectronics.co.uk/html/attenuators.htmlRegards,-- Al | |
| preamp gain in relation to whole systems help No, I doubt that is the correct interpretation. Just about any preamp other than a passive one will have considerably more gain than 2 db, and no line-level preamp will have anywhere near 64 db gain (although with a phono stage included that is so... | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps Gee, I'm genuinely surprised that out of 61 responses so far, just a small handful have mentioned classical performers. I appreciate pop as much as many others, but on an audiophile-oriented forum, and considering the misguided and low quality eng... | |
| MC and Step-Up Cartridge Loading Palewin,Thanks for the good update and summary. Yes, cartridge output specs are usually defined for 5 cm/sec groove velocities at 1 kHz, and the RIAA equalization that is utilized on records provides a boost of around 20db at 20 kHz, relative to t... | |
| Quality Budget RCA Interconnects Looks like a nice recommendation, Tvad, in the lengths that they offer (0.5, 1, and 2 meters). But their capacitance is quite high at 108 pf/foot, so depending on the output impedance of the source component (which doesn't appear to be specified f... | |
| Quality Budget RCA Interconnects I've found that the Pearstone Gold Series interconnects are well-constructed, inexpensive, no-nonsense cables that do the job (but ignore the cheaper ones that have nickel-plated connectors):http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=search... | |
| preamp gain in relation to whole systems help Ideally the gain of the preamp and power amp, and the output voltage range of the preamp, and the input voltage range of the power amp, should combine such that the volume control is used roughly in the middle of its range (ideally between 10 o'cl... | |
| Anybody listen to Ohm Walsh speaker w/digital amp? Can somebody educate me briefly on what this "class A, class D," etc. terminology means?This is a bit technical, but with a little patience I think you'll gain a better understanding than a brief oversimplified answer with no diagrams would convey... |