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| New Adcom 👀585 SE. anybody heard this monster The fact that the Adcom 585SE’s maximum continuous power capability in stereo mode is only 33% greater into 4 ohms than into 8 ohms (600 watts vs. 450 watts), as well as the lack of any rating for a 4 ohm load in bridged mode, does not speak well ... | |
| Carver and Tube Life John (Roxy54), thank you kindly :-)Stickman, I wouldn’t want to speculate on the differences that would result between the two amplifiers with respect to soundstage, dimensionality, bass, or pretty much any other sonic attribute. But given that yo... | |
| Have a OCM 200 power amp A further indication that what I said in my last three posts is correct, that using the amp’s XLR connector with a suitably designed XLR-to-two RCA adapter cable would allow the amp to operate in stereo mode:The OCM 500 has the same input connecto... | |
| Have a OCM 200 power amp P.S. to my previous post: In the paragraph beginning with "However if a y-adapter were used ..." to be sure it’s clear I meant an XLR to two-RCA y-adapter cable designed in the manner I described in the rest of that paragraph. A y-adapter cable th... | |
| Thiel Owners ... anyone know a solution for when formatting stops working on this forum? I can see everyone else's formatting is working, but now all my spacing and paragraphing disappears when I post. ... I don't use a PC. Firefox or Chrome on a mac. N... | |
| Have a OCM 200 power amp Rocray, what I was envisioning in my previous post is that the signal on pin 2 of the XLR connector goes to one channel of the amp; the signal on pin 3 of the XLR connector goes to the other channel; and the ground pin (pin 1 of the XLR connector)... | |
| Carver and Tube Life Hi Stickman,Thanks for your question. It so happens that I had addressed that exact question in a post dated 11-17-2017 in this thread, although in connection with a different Carver amplifier. What I said was as follows: Regarding the statement b... | |
| Talk but not walk? As a disinterested observer (meaning an unbiased observer) of this essentially useless thread, FWIW I don't see how any reasonable person could disagree with anything Prof has said in it.Regards,-- Al | |
| Have a OCM 200 power amp @Wayne3720After thinking about it a little further, and if I’m envisioning the design correctly, I believe the amp actually would work ok (in normal stereo mode) if you were to use a y-cable with an XLR connector on one end and two RCAs on the oth... | |
| Have a OCM 200 power amp So I can use a Y cable with a XLR on one end and two RCA on the other into the preamp.....???? No. While I’m not familiar with the OCM 200, after looking at a rear panel photo on the web, and given the info provided by Jperry, it appears that what... | |
| Advice Needed FWIW, I use ESET’s well regarded NOD32 anti-virus program (but not either of ESET’s security "suites"), in conjunction with Firefox and Windows 10. I have never seen any such warnings while viewing any pages at Audiogon.My guess is that the warnin... | |
| Valve phono stage so why do top phono stage designers use RCA inputs? I’ll give that a shot, pending Ralph’s response.Turntables came into being before low output moving coil cartridges became popular among audiophiles, and perhaps before any even existed. Moving m... | |
| Kora Triode 100 SB Mono Block Power Amps Roberjerman, the amp in question uses two 6C33C-B tubes per monoblock. And although I could be wrong, I suspect the two tubes are used in push-pull, rather than being paralleled in a single-ended configuration.Regards,-- Al | |
| Valve phono stage Infection, **If** the balanced inputs of your fully balanced Wyred 4 Sound STP-SE Stage 2 preamp provide significantly better sonics than its unbalanced inputs (and I doubt that anyone not having experience with that particular design can do more ... | |
| Kora Triode 100 SB Mono Block Power Amps The engineer or technician should make a point of checking out the condition of the sockets for the power tubes. The 6C33C-B (and the 6C33C) run extremely hot, each tube consuming something like 75 watts or thereabouts, depending on the specific d... |