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| The speaker/amplification wars continue @mozartfan While I am also a fan of easy to drive speakers, regardless of your conclusion I really should point something out. The Defy 7 is a rather large amplifier and a 211 SET is not. In a nutshell if you want to know how PP does against SET, ... | |
| Cons of using main XLR/Balanced outs for subwoofer? Within very generous tolerances, humans are insensitive to phase shifts. He also points out that in a normal room sound is reflected many times from objects at multiple distances resulting in enormous amounts of phase shifts that dwarf the far ... | |
| Running LOMC with MM (47K) loading You load the cartridge to what sounds good to you on your system and every system is different it is not a band aid but a load as you like itIts a band-aid in the sense that if the phono preamp doesn't have a problem with RFI injected at its inpu... | |
| Nakamichi RX-505 and some nice tapes for it The failure mode is the head winding fails. So the playing surface can be just fine. | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? But the way human ears INTERPRET and PERCEIVE the sound experience in a specific room with specific gear is different for each of us... It is the reason why in the publicity of the marketing of electronical equalizer company recommend it to mak... | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? - Listenings experiments is the ONLY way to tune and fine tune the quality we ask for and which qualities are IMPOSSIBLE to deduce only from any set of measurements nevermind how big it is and how precise...Why ?Because many dimensions are at play... | |
| Cons of using main XLR/Balanced outs for subwoofer? Duke always says the ear is very forgiving of small timing errors in the low frequencies such that the speakers + room = a minimum phase system. So I am unclear how a phase shift in the low (< 20Hz) bass is consequential. OTOH he also notes ... | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? Test tones are used to show how equipment performs below audible levels but how music performs at listening levels is the deciding criteria. In that regard science fails miserably.Actually it doesn't. But science is rarely applied when doing mea... | |
| Nakamichi RX-505 and some nice tapes for it why do you look at these things ? I mean, heads for Nak decks. You have Studers, that's real tape machines.I put myself through engineering and technical school working on consumer electronics. So I've worked on plenty of cassette machines includi... | |
| Running LOMC with MM (47K) loading we don't affect what the cartridge does at all (unless the value of the load approaches or drops below the internal impedance of the cartridge). What adding resistive loading at the phono stage input accomplishes is to dampen the resonant ener... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? Challenge your self, nothing I said was aimed at you, yet you took it to heart, wonder why.I'm not angry George, just disappointed :) I often heard problems with class D some years back- weak bass and the like as you've described. But it was obv... | |
| Why do we want to distortions? There are different types of feedback and I’m referring to traditional "loop" feedback. Degeneration is a bit different. But I think error correction is much better if that is possible in the design.Correction is good. Degeneration does not tend... | |
| Why do we want to distortions? Both Cheever, Pass and several others agree on that to much negative feedback create high order harmonics that we are very sensitive to. Cheever also discuss aural masking and the effect by adding such distortion to the playback system. But doe... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" That's at least how I remember him explaining it. And that seems to be exactly what Frank was saying he doesn't do. But I remain confused. @hilde45 All amps make distortion; if you understand how the ear interprets distortion than you don't have... | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? The best mat I ever heard was made by Warren Gehl of ARC (prior to his working with ARC). The last one I saw sold anywhere was $1700.00. They were heavy- about 5 pounds, owing to lead content. |