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| what do you know" Most people seem to agree that cable performance is system dependent. Which to me means that you are just as likely to find that an inexpensive quality cable can outperform a much more expensive quality cable, in an arbitrarily chosen system.My ow... | |
| Happy Thanksgiving fellow Audiophiles Happy Thanksgiving To All!Let us not forget to view any difficulties that we may deal with from the perspective that the most important things in life are health and loved ones.-- Al | |
| Class A Amp Looks like Pass Labs' most powerful pure class A amp is the XA200.5 monoblock. Rated 200W into 8 ohms, and apparently 400W into 4 ohms. Shipping weight is only 180 pounds for each amplifer, and power consumption is only 700W each, presumably even ... | |
| Impedance Matching Preamp/Amp Assiance Pls? All of the preceding responses are correct. A theoretically ideal audio amplifier or preamplifier will have zero output impedance and infinite input impedance. That is obviously not practical for many reasons. The numbers cited above (several hund... | |
| Anyone have Specs on a Westinghouse WL-5561 Tube? I have a reprint of an old RCA transmitting tube manual, which lists a type 5561. I suspect it would be the same or very similar to your Westinghouse tube. It's listed as a half-wave mercury-vapor rectifier, to be used in the power supply of trans... | |
| interconnect lengths As someone who is both an electrical engineer and an audiophile, I don't see any problems with respect to either of your two questions.If both the cable capacitance and the preamp output impedance were unusually high, there could be a slight upper... | |
| Ever discover cheapo speakers actually sound... I think the statements by RockV and Ojgalli are somewhat reconcilable (and perhaps mostly reconcilable) if we accept that at least some of the sonic differences between different high quality upstream components are audible through low quality spe... | |
| What wire gauge suitable for small tube amp? Yes, putting my previous comment and Stan's good comment a little differently, to be sure it is clear to everyone:A wire gauge that is adequate to support the run length and the amount of current being delivered to the speakers, as well as a gauge... | |
| Ever discover cheapo speakers actually sound... I would make an analogy to playing a poor quality recording on a very high quality system. As my system evolved over the years, my initial expectation was that the improvements in the system would make poor recordings sound worse, by reproducing t... | |
| Need guidance on system config...help I have no specific listening experience relevant to your question, but my instinct would be to go with a recent high quality, well reviewed, cd player with built-in volume control. Why add the complexity, cabling, etc., of a full-fledged preamp wh... | |
| What wire gauge suitable for small tube amp? Using an overly heavy gauge will not "suck the life" from the amplifier. As long as the gauge is minimally adequate, the resistance of the wire will be negligible in comparison to the load impedance presented by the speaker, and using a gauge that... | |
| What is your cartridge and tracking force used Grado Reference Sonata (high output version) at the recommended 1.5gm. Just installed it recently, and it sounds and tracks fine at that setting.Regards,-- Al | |
| High-Def TVs? Kirkus -- Thanks for your thoughtful insights. Actually, they reinforce the decision I made about 3 years ago to buy the last and perhaps best crt-based hdtv of its screen size ever made, just before it became unavailable. A Sony 30 inch 16:9 hdtv... | |
| why is it that on some records, sound terrible?? Here is the checklist that I run through in my mind whenever I install a cartridge, of things that need to be adjusted or at least considered:Overhang.Offset angle.Azimuth.VTA.Tracking force.Anti-skating force.Load resistance (i.e., preamp input i... | |
| High-Def TVs? Seems to me that for someone who wants to watch both hdtv and sdtv extensively, and have reasonably good picture quality in both modes, the key is to simply select a screen size that will be the right compromise for both modes. Select it to be som... |