almarg
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| Pop Sound in my speakers when driven loud from studio recorded CD sources. Glad that the problem is finally solved.It seems that what I had said in a post which I subsequently deleted (because it seemed inconsistent with the sensitivity of the problem to the setting of the volume control), but which I quoted in a subsequ... | |
| RCA switch / 2 in 1 out or 4 in, 1 out. Buy a pair of Y cables. If as it appears you mean connecting the outputs of both players to the receiver's tape2 inputs via a y-cable on each channel I would strongly recommend against that, since doing so would short the outputs of the two pla... | |
| RCA switch / 2 in 1 out or 4 in, 1 out. I doubt that anyone here has performed a direct comparison between the two kinds of alternatives you cited, and even if someone has the results could very well be different in their system compared to yours. And from a technical standpoint I don’t... | |
| How to add depth for classical music Good suggestions by Ralph ( @atmasphere ). Also, some years back Chesky remastered a few of the recordings originally engineered by Kenneth Wilkinson and issued them on CD, with spectacular results. I don’t know if they are available on any of the... | |
| Your favorite excellent quality/sounding LPs I have found the following labels to have provided excellent sounding classical recordings on LP with a high degree of consistency, although unfortunately a number of them no longer exist or no longer produce LPs.Accent Astrée AudiofonCheskyDorian... | |
| Is there an ideal (ish) cartridge output? Another aspect that also got me thinking about this, is when you crank the volume on an input of a cd player or DAC when nothing is playing you get silence, but when you do that with a phono stage you will quickly get noise when past a certain t... | |
| Looking for phono preamp suggestions @three_easy_payments Re the Luxman EQ-500, I note that depending on the selection between the two LOMC gain modes it provides it presents the cartridge with a load impedance of either 40 ohms or 2.5 ohms. While the OP’s 0.3 mv cartridge has a reco... | |
| Educate me about gain and amp/preamp matching The overall gain of the amp/preamp combination does in fact correspond to the sum of the gains of the two components (if the gains are expressed in db; if the gains are expressed as a ratio of voltage out vs. voltage in then the two numbers would ... | |
| Educate me about gain and amp/preamp matching +1 Cleeds.Also, keep in mind that the difference between 30 watts and 50 watts is only about 2 db, in terms of voltage, power, and (everything else being equal) in terms of the resulting SPL.Differences in preamp gain will just affect the settings... | |
| How to add depth for classical music To add to my earlier comment about the extremely light weight of the speaker, relative to its size, as well as to the experienced-based comment by @twoleftears , a couple of brief excerpts from the 6moons review:That the depth perspective would ... | |
| How to add depth for classical music I have no experience with your equipment, but based on user comments I've seen here and elsewhere about your Parasound electronics, the Node2i, and the Qutest, and after doing a bit of research on the speakers, I'm struck by exactly one thing: ... | |
| Sexy singer(s) and/or song(s) +1 re Julie London. While I happen to not be especially enamored of her recordings she certainly deserves mention in a thread such as this. Regards,-- Al | |
| Measuring line noise and power conditioners @roberttdid Regarding your recent post in which you quoted from my earlier post: I agree with everything in your post, except that I don't see any inconsistency between your statements and my statement which you quoted.Keep in mind that what I ... | |
| Measuring line noise and power conditioners A minor correction to my previous post: In the first paragraph when I said:"... when the instantaneous voltage of the incoming AC waveform exceeds the voltage on the storage capacitors by the small amount that is sufficient to turn on the rectifie... | |
| Measuring line noise and power conditioners A point to keep in mind, which I would expect to be particularly important in the case of class AB and class D power amps (since their AC current draw fluctuates significantly with the dynamics of the music), is that AC current is drawn mainly in ... |