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| Longer speaker cables or interconnects stock 604B, C, and D were 16 ohms. They can be modified to 8. When I had them re-coned, I kept them at 16. Jon said the Futterman much prefer the 16. Even better! I had seen the 8 ohm number in the listing for the 604C near the middle of this ... | |
| Longer speaker cables or interconnects OK. Given that, and pending any further info you might be able to provide after the equipment is unboxed, and given also that the 604c is specified as an 8 ohm driver, I suspect that with this particular equipment what would be best is:-- Connect ... | |
| Longer speaker cables or interconnects Unreceivedogma, it appears that your preamp provides two RCA outputs. "Output 1," at least in stock form, has an EXTREMELY high output impedance of 100K, that was apparently suitable for use with a matching Beard power amp, but very definitely w... | |
| preamp inverts polarity P.S. to my previous post: In advocating a swap of + and - at the speaker terminals I'm assuming that the speakers are entirely passive, i.e., that they do not contain an amplifier themselves. Let us know if that is not the case.Regards,-- Al | |
| preamp inverts polarity Unbalanced interconnects should absolutely not be re-wired to invert polarity. If that were done the signal provided by the sending component would be connected to the circuit ground of the receiving component, and the circuit ground of the sendin... | |
| Bob Carver new tune expected P.S: Regarding the Carver TX-11 tuner, my experience differed from what another poster reported earlier in the thread. Despite the special signal processing it incorporated to enhance weak signal reception, it was handily outperformed in that resp... | |
| Bob Carver new tune expected FWIW, I owned a number of Carver Corporation products during the 1980s, namely the M400t, M400a, C-4000, C-9, and TX-11. All were absolutely reliable, and in fact after about 35 years the M400t is still going strong in the home of a relative.Sonic... | |
| best amp platform/stand under VAC Renaissance 30/30 300b amp? I use the following Mapleshade "maple platform with isoblock suspension" under my VAC Renaissance 70/70 MkIII amplifier, on a bare wood floor. Seems to do the job, as evidenced in part by the absence of any audible response to nearby footfalls:htt... | |
| tubes and current Great suggestions by Pdreher!Given that your speakers have presumably been designed with the expectation that they would typically be used with solid state amps, and given their very widely fluctuating impedance curve (see Figure 1 of Stereophile’... | |
| Power Cables How long has this (thread) been going on? Not remotely close to as long as many other cable-related threads/debates :-)Regards,-- Al | |
| Power Cables Sisyphus, thanks for providing the link. However, firstly, let’s not use the term "pulses." That would imply a squarish waveform, which is not what is being referred to. What is being referred to are the portions of a 60 Hz sine wave that approach... | |
| Power Cables Sisyphus51 6-14-2018 A IR voltage drop of two volts across a very long power cable will not cause an equal 2 volt drop in filament voltage in a vacuum tube amp. Of course not, and no one has said that it would. In designs in which filament voltage... | |
| Power Cables Sisyphus51 6-13-2018 Why do folks insist that "Power Cables" need to have a bandwidth equal to that of a very high-spec amplifier’s audio bandwidth? Are you people INSANE? We are talking about 60Hz AC here!If your power cords are carrying Khz rang... | |
| Power Cables And from this thread, in 2010:Almarg 9-15-2010Power cords: a 2V drop across a power cord can rob a tube amplifier of as much as 40% of its output power! Ralph, could you provide a technical explanation of why that would be so? I don’t doubt your s... | |
| Power Cables I think that the following lengthy post that was provided by Atmasphere a few years ago, in a post dated 6-3-2014 in this thread, is worth quoting here in its entirety. It reinforces some of the things that were said above by Steve (Williewonka),... |