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| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Coldears 9-2-2018 My understanding is the amp is class AB but runs in Class A for the first few watts. It is my understanding there is more heat running class A. My speakers being 100 dB the amp will only need a few watts to operate thus it should... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Chris (@Waltersalas), regarding your possible purchase of a Lyngdorf, before doing so I suggest that you contact the manufacturer and ask what the input impedances of its balanced and unbalanced analog inputs are. Those numbers appear to be unspec... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? @CD318, excellent selections in your recent posts, IMO, especially the ones from "What A Wonderful World" and "Ol’ Man River."A correction, though: "Ol’ Man River" was composed by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, not Lerner & Loewe.Also, ... | |
| Micro SD Cards I’m doubtful that the first card was actually ruined by formatting it in a Mac. My guess is that it was formatted into a "file system" the Sony can’t recognize, probably either the APFS or HFS+ file systems which are used by Macs of various genera... | |
| Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic For instance, a 1m Schroeder Method setup has a source seeing an impedance like a 2m cable. Obviously the longer the interconnect the more potential for an impedance problem for a source’s output. Doug, yes, I certainly agree with the second sente... | |
| Two different amps to same speakers for two different applications? Doesn’t switching gear take away from the sound stage, the quality? Not necessarily, IMO. While I suspect that a lot of audiophiles would assert that it does, I doubt that very many if any of them have performed an evaluation of a variety of well ... | |
| Two different amps to same speakers for two different applications? No, you absolutely should not do that. See discussion of a similar question, and some possible approaches, in the following recent threads: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/one-system-two-amps-one-for-tv-and-the-other-for-musichttps://foru... | |
| Autoformer vs Speaker impedance Curve +1 Eric (bdp24).We are privileged to have highly experienced and accomplished designers of outstanding audio electronics, such as Ralph and Roger, sharing their knowledge with us here.Best regards,-- Al | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable d2girls, for balanced analog interconnects I and more than a few others here have had excellent results with Mogami Gold Studio, which btw is arguably the de facto cable of choice in pro applications. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?sts=ma&a... | |
| Bryston 2WSB switch box to choose amp that drives speakers Looks perfect. Nice find!Also, Digikey sells it for a somewhat lower price:https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/honeywell-sensing-and-productivity-solutions/4NT1-1/480-21...Best regards,-- Al P.S: Keep in mind that if the lower powered amp ha... | |
| Bryston 2WSB switch box to choose amp that drives speakers First, a couple of corrections, with respect to the Bryston switchbox:1) Ignore my previous comments about make-before-break vs. break-before-make. I hadn’t noticed that the Bryston unit provides a separate and independent switch for each of its t... | |
| Bryston 2WSB switch box to choose amp that drives speakers Good catch about the commonality of the red terminals, Treynolds155.There are some circumstances in which that switchbox would work ok in selecting between two amplifiers if all of its red terminals are treated as black and vice versa. But I would... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @handymann For line-level balanced interconnections, ground-related factors that will act in the direction of reducing sensitivity to cable differences are:(a) Pin 1 of the XLR connectors on each component (which is the pin that is used to connect... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @handymann I would certainly expect that there would be a significant difference changing from cables such as your Transparents, which incorporate a network of unknown design, to just about any non-networked cables. Especially given the considerab... | |
| Tube Pre-Amp, vs Solid State with Tone Controls/EQ to take edge off the top end? The Loki certainly seems well worth trying. One downside, though, might result from the fact that it only provides unbalanced inputs and outputs, and presumably has an unbalanced internal signal path, while I believe both of your Pass components a... |