atmasphere
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| Using a 100 Volt amp on our 120 volt power line ? A simple way to deal with this is something called a 'bucking' transformer'.The idea is pretty simple, and its cheap. You need a transformer that can do about 15-20 volts at its output under load. It must be able to prvide the current needed by wh... | |
| Preamp no longer makes a difference after caps and wire What is meant by 'I’ve upgraded the wired in my whole system'?Did you replace all the wire in your power amplifier, DAC and speakers??Or just the interconnect cables? | |
| Preamp for Rogue Stereo 100 amplifier A balanced preamp will do that nicely. Our MP-3 preamp can do that quite well. A bit out of your price range, but you can probably find a used one in budget. | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. @ramtubes ...And I didn't- hence the comment 'a lot depends on what is meant by 'instantly' ' (a word used in an earlier post by Erik Squires). | |
| It is balanced or not? @joser9616 There is an easy way to tell if you have a DVM (Digital Volt Meter). If you don't the best way to find out is to talk the manufacturer. | |
| Converting balanced output from a DaySequerra tuner to unbalanced input for my preamp? I’m going to get a cable made so as to ignore the cheap op amps in that box.That is my advice :) | |
| turntable skipping with footsteps I have a Sound Anchors equipment stand that I had built for my preamp and turntable, both on an anti-vibration platform. But that did not stop problems with foot falls on a hardwood floor (although it did help the sound otherwise- better bass and ... | |
| a dilemma for cartridge/phono stage combination "you will have to find a way to load the output of the transformers." @stone1 Sorry- didn't see this earlier.By this I meant that the SUT needs to be loaded, and the loading changes depending on the cartridge. Jensen has a chart that includes... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? I’m not being facetious guys. I am trying to learn here. Way back I had Heresys and I loved them. In 1970 we did not have much for power. With a Dynaco Stereo 120 these things would rock. No deep bass but then nobody knew about sub woofers. They w... | |
| Apogee Scintilla Power Class D has to use a filter at the output to get rid of the switching noise. This filter has to be designed to accommodate a certain impedance. Pretty sure that 1 ohm is not a consideration. Most are set up for 4 ohms. Its not that the amp may not... | |
| Best sound in old late 70s early 80s receivers Harmon-Kardon built a series of receivers with separate power transformers for each channel. That seemed to be an audible improvement at the time.The thing is, any receiver or amplifier from that era is going to need work to perform the way it did... | |
| Older Electronics - When to cut bait? Your thoughts? We have an update-to-current with warranty reactivation program that applies to anything we've made. If the product you have has such a program available to it, then no need to worry- check with the manufacturer. | |
| What is the least compressed signal? CDs as a rule are not compressed at all. They present the full Red book audio signal in non comprsssed format.This statement is false. CDs have the expectation of being played in a car and so dynamic range is compressed. In most cases... Its an in... | |
| Converting balanced output from a DaySequerra tuner to unbalanced input for my preamp? @larrykellYou probably only need an adapter. Most likely, the adapter would be set up with a female XLR connector going to a male RCA. Pin 2 of the XLR would correspond to the center pin of the RCA and pin 1 of the XLR would be the ground of the R... | |
| Apogee Scintilla Power Its really important to keep your speaker cables as short as possible when dealing with a 1 ohm load!! If ever there was an argument for balanced operation and monoblocks, this is it because you really don't want to have speaker cables be over abo... |