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| How do you wire a mono cartridge to a stereo pream I should have phrased the last sentence of my previous post: is the combination of the cartridge and the recordings you will be listening to a suitable match for the riaa phono equalization curve that modern phono preamps use? If not, overall freq... | |
| How do you wire a mono cartridge to a stereo pream With a y-adapter, which would have a jack to mate with an rca plug, and wires the signal from that jack in parallel into two rca plugs. Cheap ones are available at Radio Shack; better ones elsewhere.But you should check what loading (resistive and... | |
| Recommended CD's for classical good recording ? Are you sure the ones from the 40's and 50's that sound flat and one-dimensional aren't mono? Just about all releases through at least the mid-50's, and often later, were in mono. They would only be stereo on cd if they were initially recorded wit... | |
| How to go from RCA to XLR? Yes, I was just about to post the following, when I saw Atmasphere's last response:I don't see why I would need an input transformer Al.You don't. I think Atmasphere is addressing the fact that an unmodified Citation II has single-ended inputs. In... | |
| How to go from RCA to XLR? I think his last paragraph confirms that you can.Regards,-- Al | |
| How to go from RCA to XLR? If as I think the amps are bridged, what happens to the channel that isn't available when using the RCA adapters? It would be half of the amp's power being sent to ground.That was what I was addressing in my previous post when I said:If the power ... | |
| How to go from RCA to XLR? Noslop -- Thanks for the witty presentation of your empirical findings! :)But I don't think that they necessarily support the conclusion that the rca-to-xlr conversion is what is responsible for the huge volume difference that you heard between th... | |
| Using CD player without Preamp? I agree with Polk as long as the output stage was actually designed to drive a power amp. Despite having a nominal output high enough many CD players will not be as good as a good preamp in driving a power amp. But if they have been designed to do... | |
| Isolating digital and analog If you haven't already, please see the following thread for some good discussion and good references about separating ("isolating") the power runs to the different components. There are significant potential downsides, as well as potential upsides... | |
| How to connect two amps with one source? A preamp with two sets of main outputs may or may not have independent buffer stages for them. If it does not, then in effect it has an internal y-connection, that will perform no differently than an external y-connection, aside from possible cabl... | |
| Preamp gain question I wanted to add the following sentence at the end of my previous post, but we don't seem to have an edit function on this forum (someone please let me know if there is a way of editing one's own posts):A tube set for a preamp that would result in ... | |
| Preamp gain question The 10A is linestage only, could that be why?/According to what I read at their site, the 10AL is linestage only, while the 10A includes a phono stage. Although it was in the line stage of the 10A that the gain reduction was made; apparently an id... | |
| Telephones for Audiophiles? My Motorola E815 on Verizon isn't too bad. But I still prefer to use the landline for important calls.A little OT: My pet peeve is answering machines. I've been through many, selecting them based on user comments I've seen, and looking for the bes... | |
| How to go from RCA to XLR? A couple of further thoughts. It will be important to make the two channels as identical as possible, meaning identical tubes, identical bias settings, etc. Otherwise the positive and negative parts of the waveforms will be treated asymmetrically,... | |
| How to go from RCA to XLR? Yes, well as far as I can tell I think you'll succeed in both respects, if you install an xlr jack connected as I described, and connect the speaker between the + outputs as I described and not as the manual describes.Good luck with it!-- Al |