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| Phono Pre Impedance Matching- Herron VTPH -2A or Manley Chinook See the post dated 7-30-2018 at the end of this thread, by member "600ohms," who is Keith Herron himself. As you’ll see, bass rolloff would not be an issue with a 16K load, although a **slight** compromise in dynamics is possible. But my belief is... | |
| Thiel Owners Out of curiosity, is anyone else getting weird stretched-width formatting for this page of the thread? I believe that what is causing the page to stretch horizontally, at least when viewed in Firefox, is the long URL in Unsound’s post dated 4-3-20... | |
| How to connect subwoofers None of the approaches that have been mentioned in the thread will harm your equipment in any way, UNLESS:1) You connect at speaker level and the class D amplifier is one of a few older designs which operate both the + and - speaker outputs with a... | |
| How to value a used CD collection? David12 is correct, of course. What the friend is planning to do constitutes copyright infringement. Assuming, that is, that the material was copied to a computer hard drive as opposed to a medium for which royalties were included in the purcha... | |
| Why is & such a common spellcheck typo on Audiogon It’s not a typo; it is an artifact of how the page is encoded and how the browser interprets the coding."&" (without the quotes) is html notation for an ampersand. Depending on how the site encodes the page, and I believe also depending on... | |
| Human Loudspeaker Review Thread Was Removed It’s possible that it was removed by automated software that I believe was put in place to deal with the flood of spam we had here in the past few months, until it was recently brought under control by various measures Audiogon put in place.The st... | |
| Does a Linn kairm preamp reverse phaze From page 5 (pdf page 10) of the manual for the Linn KAIRN (not "Kairm"): NOTE: The KAIRN inverts the phase of the signal to the power amplifier. Therefore connect the positive output of the power amplifier to the negative (black) loudspeaker term... | |
| New Gallo Strata's sound like tin-cans: break-in time problem? My guess is that both speakers have been miswired internally such that the two woofers in each speaker are being driven with opposite polarities. In other words, one woofer is moving out while the other woofer in the same speaker is moving in.It m... | |
| Is a Bryston 3B SST2 enough for Magnepan 3.7i or 20.7? Thank you Al,Ok then the idea of bridging just went out the door...🤗But To make sure I got this right:So what you are saying is that the amp should also close to triple it’s power into the 2 ohm load (in the bridged mode) or about 3000w, in order ... | |
| Does anyone have a Schiit Yggy DAC? @213Runnin, re the AD5791, it can be calculated from the voltage and current specifications shown in the "Power Requirements" section near the bottom of page 4 of its datasheet that each of them consumes something on the order of 125 milliwatts (0... | |
| Is a Bryston 3B SST2 enough for Magnepan 3.7i or 20.7? @lucidear, the main concern regarding the possibility of bridging that amp with Maggies is that a bridged amp "sees" the speaker impedance divided by two. So it would see the 4 ohm impedance of a Maggie as 2 ohms, and most amps will not sound goo... | |
| Does anyone have a Schiit Yggy DAC? @213Runnin, thanks for pointing that out. Based on the photos at the website I would never have suspected that the "holes" don't go all the way through the panel.Even so, however, I would not expect that 35 or 45 watts going into a component havi... | |
| Attenuation pad I see in the photos of the attenuator you linked to that it is marked "-20 db at 600 ohms," and that some of the comments and questions near the bottom of the page indicate that it is apparently intended for use with professional microphones.If 60... | |
| How much do we at A'gon influence the industry? I can only provide one data point related to Erik’s question, namely my own purchasing experiences.When I consider purchasing an audio component, if after following and/or researching comments that have been provided here or elsewhere about partic... | |
| Installation of new AC lines......best way to ground to avoid loops and noise It absolutely does not matter is all your circuits come from the same leg or not. That is factually and electrically false. While I don’t doubt that in some and perhaps many setups it won’t matter whether the components in a system are all powere... |