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| Power supply questions. How to know when it needs repair? for the pre amp and phono amp, you will notice a sharp drop in gain, or perhaps a drop in audio quality. it would be significant. A turntable, the motor will slow down under load. If I were to test them, I would put a VOM meter on the output and ... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? I spent 7k. CA performance dc hana ml (low output). detail is amazing, small acoustic ensembles are any vinyl’s strength. FWIW i only by vinyl from analog masters, so most purchases from discogs. Although there are people that swear that digit... | |
| Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget without the luxury of brick amd mortar, I’d get the best b&w speakers you can, along with the benchmark ahb2 amp. Rave reviews on the amp, reasonably priced, Made in the US. as for type of music. Classical is the most challenging, It has the... | |
| Moving to separates the most expensive and subject to the most cost cutting will be the power amp section. Typically the power supply is a very large transformer (high cost), several very large energy storing capacitors. heat sinks, power transistors. Receivers/avr... | |
| How long should high quality speakers last? it’s a function of materials used and when they deteriorate. Foam surrounds have a 20 year(?) life. Anyone that recones drivers should be able to answer. My experiemce….I heva 20 year old thiel 2.4’s that as afar as I can tell sound as good as th... |