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| Review: Harman Kardon HK990 Amplifier Have been absent. Gz3827, glad the review was helpful. I think I paid $1875 for an open box from One Call in late 2011. Onecall had an open box recently and the price had gone up to $1900 or more. BTW, Onecall has an impeccible reputation. My fami... | |
| Swap Mono amps Left for Right I leave my systems powered on except during thunderstorm season. I have read that during break-in of any component, powering it off for 30 minutes will re-align the molecular structure, and I think I experience this phenomenon where the sound is i... | |
| Need a warm amp for bright speakers Also the Monitor 9's must be biampable or triampable. If you have not replaced the flat brass straps aready, they should be replaced with a high quality jumper. I use anticable fom Paul Speltz whch is inexpensive. Those factory straps are horrible... | |
| Need a warm amp for bright speakers You can't go wrong with Audioquest. Other than that, I'd stay away from cable with silver in it. Copper is more tame. | |
| Length of digital cable? ok. This site is screwing up. It won't let me respond. | |
| Length of digital cable? I was using separate circuits for digital and analogue. That is, transport was on separate circuit but was using the amp's onboard D/A converter. I do have all components on the same circuit in the basement.I would like to try your cable. Will get... | |
| Length of digital cable? OK, Al. I'll try it. Thanks. Best, Lynne | |
| Length of digital cable? Hi Al,I need to order a second cable for a second system, so I will try a 1.5m length. With this 18 ft Beldon, I'm getting a smooth high end like analogue. I can live without stonishing detail if I have to but not the "digital-sounding" high end.F... | |
| Length of digital cable? Ps, you use 40cm of what cable? | |
| Length of digital cable? Hi Steve, You were around last year when Al and you and others were pounding into my head what a digital signal is. I thought I could do better than the Beldon but thought I had to be on the right track because suddenly the signal sounds right. Wi... | |
| Receiver I can relate growing up in MN. So far, I can't find out if your NAD's have active preamps. Your hk3470 has pre out which means it has an active preamp. Generally receivers and integrateds have passive preamps which causes them to sound somewhat du... | |
| Receiver Agree. The NAD PE series of the early 80's had outstanding dynamic power and were considered audiophile quality. You might find them delivering more punch and thunder and excitement. Since they are quite agey at this point, you might find the hk m... | |
| Square waves or 1's and 0's? OK. It probably needs to be qualified. I got it from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_signal. Please explain. | |
| Square waves or 1's and 0's? Al & Steve, Yes, Al, I read the Wiki piece before but was somewhat unclear until you have now further explained it. Visual aids--graphs, charts, schematics are difficult. I need to learn first the meaning before they make sense. I was unclear ... | |
| Square waves or 1's and 0's? OK. An analogue wave form is continuous in terms of time and voltage and frequency. A digital wave form is a square wave, as it were, which means it is repetitively maybe not on-off but high-low, higher-not-so-high, low-lower in terms of time and ... |