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| Primaluna separates or Integrated? You will find the following thread to be of interest:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/primaluna-prologue-integrated-help-neededAs you’ll see, the OP in that thread had a problem using the PrimaLuna ProLogue integrated amp with his GoldenEar ... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 200wpc Integrated Amplifier Thanks Nonoise. That's good to know. I'll be watching for further reports about the sonics of this amp from you and others.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 200wpc Integrated Amplifier OK. So if I understand correctly setting the volume control to around 30 on a scale of 0 to 255 seems about right on the recordings you’ve tried so far.That suggests the gain is fairly high, and means that the sensitivity spec I referred to in my ... | |
| Seeking informed recommendations for power cables and interconnects OK, good! So the design of the hybrid version reduced the 6K output impedance of the all tube version to 600 ohms. That being the case, your guess is as good as mine as to what to focus on first. But if any of the interconnects are particularly lo... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 200wpc Integrated Amplifier Great news, Nonoise. Congratulations!Regarding a question I posed earlier in the thread, does the gain seem to be either particularly high or particularly low, as judged by what part of the volume control’s range you find yourself using? As I ment... | |
| Seeking informed recommendations for power cables and interconnects According to the specs shown here the Parks Audio Budgie phono stage has an extremely high specified nominal output impedance of 6,000 ohms. And I wouldn’t be surprised if that value is even considerably higher at some frequencies. (Although I’m a... | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! I would have to say that the worst rock band ever was probably the one hit non-wonder that recorded what IMO is the worst rock recording I have ever heard. Namely Vito & The Salutations, and their 1963 recording which utterly destroyed the bea... | |
| Another Bi-wiring question: Amp related That is perfectly ok, Kalali, as long as the two sections of the speaker are not interconnected internally. And in that regard I see the following statement in the FAQ at the Vandersteen site: The crossovers in Vandersteen bi-wirable speakers are ... | |
| Ups and downs of audio RV, as I recall the interconnect you replaced was an older "networked" cable, which was explicitly stated by the manufacturer to have been designed to alter the signal. So in my opinion replacing it with a non-networked cable, as you did, can only... | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers Hi Ozzy,As I mentioned in one of my posts yesterday I haven't looked inside my unit in a long time, and when I did I wasn't paying much attention to the jumpers. But I assume that my HDP-5 has 8 jumpers, since with its three left & right out... | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers I'm not surprised, Ozzy, even though you weren't the original purchaser. Alan Langford at DEQX has been very responsive and helpful to me on several occasions.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers @ozzy I just noticed that on the rear panel of the Premate the "main" outputs are also identified as L2/R2, and the "sub" outputs as L1/R1. And the jumper block information on page 166 of the manual of course uses L and R designations, rather than... | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers @ozzy Hi Ozzy,It’s been a long time since I looked inside my unit, and I didn’t pay much attention to the jumpers when I did so. But based on what the manual says, yes, I would assume it has 8 jumpers. I do recall that the circuit board in mine sa... | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers Kudos, Ozzy, for resolving this very non-obvious problem. Great news, as others have said! Instead of being 6 installed in the output jumper spaces there were only 4 and the other 2 were put in the RCA input section. Leaving the output without 2 k... | |
| SW1X Audio Design DAC II Absolute Top Tier Ref NOS DAC @wig Thank you kindly for the nice words.Regarding directly heated vs. indirectly heated rectifier tubes, the following article strikes me as being informative:http://www.tubemaze.info/sound-of-rectifier/Although I can’t vouch for the following st... |