atmasphere
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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... The advantage of running 25 foot speaker wires underground is no one will step on them as they cross the room. This would be a good example of how to benefit from balanced line operation; running long speaker cables usually results in a loss of d... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Competent digital converters (ie: CD quality at 16/44) have typical distortion less than 0.01 percent at all audible frequencies right up to the point of hard clipping. I'll be glad to see your real world distortion numbers for sine waves on a... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? $100 says none of these believers will ever post a measurement or other proof showing the affects of vibration.I've posted this before Ethan, but this is a long thread and I don't blame you for not wanting to wade through it.I own a Scully LP mast... | |
| Killer Floor Standing Speakers under $4000 for Rock? If a speaker is good for rock its also good at jazz and classical. There is no such thing as a speaker that does rock better than other forms of music. This is one of the biggest myths in audio.About all that is being said here is that a speaker n... | |
| Tube Physics Question The Tiger was overpowered. A friend of mine had one with a 350 in it. Yikes! | |
| Class D Technology The snag class D still deals with is the control loop (feedback). Its easy enough to build a class D amp that does not use loop feedback. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? For the record, I still use my Pioneer receiver, and it cost all of $150 at Costco. It offers six reasonably hefty power amps with max distortion of 0.1 percent. This is not great, but it’s surely better than any tube amplifier! At full output... | |
| Tube Tester Mutual Conductance Falling - What it Means? Yes.A gassy tube tends to run hotter. As it does so, it slowly releases oxygen molecules trapped in that shiny deposit on the inside of the glass. As that happens the edges will slowly turn brown, signaling a failure on the horizon.So if you can s... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Atmasphere, I never said (or meant, anyway) that power cords don’t make a difference. Obviously using 22 gauge wire to feed a 1,000 watt amp is inadequate. What I’m always careful to say is that replacing one competent power cord with another i... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? There were no speaker isolation stands 25 years ago. Not in the literal sense of the word, anyway. 25 years ago vibration isolation was not even a gleam in some audiophile's eye. Using the laser as you described would not give a sense of how mu... | |
| Can an old Thorens Table be "Over Dampend" to the point where sound is adversely effected? A lot of people like to dampen these older Thornes tables either on the interior of the wooden plinth or all over the inner metal spring board, and arm board, they use things like "Blue Tac" or that Dynamat stuff in car doors. It will kill the ... | |
| Warm-up time for amps and preamps Leaving your system on all the time can dry out the electrolytic capacitors (even on tube equipment). This statement is incorrect. Usually filter caps have the longest life if kept charged. However, they don't like heat, insofar as long life is c... | |
| Class D Technology There is about 1% of switching voltage noise on the speaker cable since filter is not perfect but, as I said before, 1/300 wavelength antenna won't radiate. In addition, electricity in speaker cable flows in both directions canceling the most ... | |
| Can an old Thorens Table be "Over Dampend" to the point where sound is adversely effected? "Atmasphere"...What is an example of damping correctly?Using an appropriate damping material (extensional when damping surfaces; constrained when damping between surfaces), not using damping when coupling is required (such as between the arm and t... | |
| Tube Physics Question Does the KT120 compress the signal, while the KT88 does not?No. |