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| Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic P.S. to my previous post: There's one more possible effect I can think of that doing this may have in some systems. If the two components that are being connected are susceptible to ground loop issues (which might take the form of high frequenc... | |
| Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic To a close approximation doing that will double the cable capacitance that is seen by the component that is driving the cable, and it will cut the resistance and inductance in half. For a line-level interconnect conducting analog signals the most ... | |
| One system, two amps...one for tv and the other for music Is it ok to have both amps connected with separate cables but only having one amp powered up at a time? My concern is added impedance from the other powered down amp. I’m guessing this isn’t a very good idea no matter how convenient it would be. Y... | |
| System Cable Capacitance Question from a New Audiophile I would make several points regarding the original question: 1) Cable capacitance is directly proportional to length, as Tgrisham indicated. For a line-level interconnection it would be very rare for the capacitance of any decent 1 meter cable to ... | |
| Preamp for Burmester power amp Hi Almarg,How about Mark Levinson 326s or 523 preamp? Do u think they are good match? After looking at their specs and at Stereophile’s measurements of the 326s and the 526 (which is spec’d similarly to the 523), I don’t see any technical or compa... | |
| Preamp for Burmester power amp I know of a few tube preamps that can drive low impedances like this no sweat, and balanced as well. I know of some too. I hear they are quite good!Best regards,-- Al :-) | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? More completely, "laid him on the green" was misheard as "Lady Mondegreen." As described in the article I linked to in my previous post: In November, 1954, Sylvia Wright, an American writer, published a piece in Harper's where she admitted to a... | |
| Saturn R CD/DAC player -- problem downloading Rega USB driver You've probably already done this, but just to be sure have you tried re-installing the driver using a recent download from the Rega site? The relevant link appears to be as follows: http://www.rega.co.uk/uploads/documents/xmos-stereo-usb-audio-... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 200wpc Integrated Amplifier I was under the impression that some watts were wasted if one had to crank up the volume before hearing something. That would be true if the combination of amp gain, preamp gain (if there is a separate preamp, although of course there wouldn’t usu... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 200wpc Integrated Amplifier Nonoise, to clarify a minor point, the gain of the amp affects the position of the volume control at which the first watt occurs. But the first watt is the first watt, and will produce the same volume with a given pair of speakers whether it occur... | |
| What is this odd little box I've been storing for years? I think SOTA called that an "electronic flywheel." But surely it must have an output connector somewhere on it, as well as the AC cord?Regards,-- Al | |
| DECWARE.....ZTPRE anyone have any expeiriance with one ? Hi George,Yes, I’m pretty certain that what I said is correct.The example you cited, resulting in the cap seeing 50K, applies if the pot is set at max. But since the amplifier with the 100K input impedance is connected to the wiper of the pot cons... | |
| DECWARE.....ZTPRE anyone have any expeiriance with one ? Thanks, George. But actually it isn’t that bad. Note the presence of the 100K output level control. The cap will only "see" the input impedance of the power amp when the 100K output level control is at or near max. (Actually in that case it would ... | |
| What is this odd little box I've been storing for years? The shaft of the pot only turns 180 degrees. Inside there’s a transformer (EWC31004GO5), the base of the cylindrical fuse holder, the rear of the pot is a rheostat with a black resistor inline to the transformer.... The only thing I can think of a... | |
| What is this odd little box I've been storing for years? Might it be a timer of some sort? Perhaps when the knob is turned up to some setting and the device is turned on a motor drive causes the "attenuator pot" to work its way down to its minimum position, at which time a sound is emitted.Are there a... |