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| KLH Model 11 Help ! The short spindle is either the wrong one or else it is jammed.Also, all of these machines I have ever seen suffer the same malfunction which has to do with skipping at the end of the record or the automatic cycle not working right. The fault is d... | |
| What's the benefit of balanced tonearm cables? I can clearly hear the differences in balanced cable....are you saying that balanced cables sound alike?They will if set up correctly. You might want to take a look at the Audio Engineering Society file 48 which defines the balanced line standard.... | |
| Joule Electra preamps and amps. What is your impression? Did I hear right that OTL amps require a very careful match with speakers ? In what sense? I read that some use them with big Sound Labs, Classic Audio's modern vintage speakers are apparently excellent match too. But that's big unusual speake... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers 2nd order can sound good to the ear. Enjoying our system choice is what its about not if its optimal or not, so if you like it dare I say its right.The concern of course is not the 2nd harmonic, but the presence of the 5th and above. 100 db peak... | |
| What's the benefit of balanced tonearm cables? The reason a balanced connection can have no cable artifact is the fact that the signal travels in a twisted pair within a shield (BTW this is how the signal travels in the tone arm- the arm itself being the shield). The shield is there for shield... | |
| Joule Electra preamps and amps. What is your impression? ^^Any amplifier using 6C33 power tubes will need the power tube sockets replaced on a regular basis. When the tube was used by the Soviet military, the recommended service life included replacement of the socket along with the tube. The socket was... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers When I checked my levels in the past, I didn't get much above 90 db on peaks. That was setting it as loud as I would ever want to listen. Most of the time, it was lower than that. 100 db peaks must be painful, not to mention the potential for h... | |
| What's the benefit of balanced tonearm cables? The reason you go with balanced line is to eliminate any cable artifact, and by that I mean that you may have noticed that some cables sound better than others. That goes away with a properly set up balanced line system.Balanced line and single-en... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers A type 45 can make about a 1 watt or slightly less running single ended.To really appreciate what they can do (which is to say, they usually sound better than a 2A3 or 300b amplifier) you actually do need some efficiency and the only way to get th... | |
| Strange Loud Popping Sounds Does the phono section ever do this when nothing is playing? | |
| Why do so few low power amplifiers using 300B have balanced inputs? ^^ He can, but 5 meters is a long ways to go single-ended, even if the cable is balanced. The adapter, if properly wired, will tie pin 3 to ground. At that point the cable capacitance will increase.But with a simple mod (which is done by adding a ... | |
| Why do so few low power amplifiers using 300B have balanced inputs? May I use a female XLR to male RCA adapter at the unbalanced amplifier input? No. That is the same as single-ended. In the residential world, you could add an XLR input, and do the same thing, but you won't get any benefit from it unless you actu... | |
| Why do so few low power amplifiers using 300B have balanced inputs? Most 300b amplifiers are single-ended. Most designers think that there is no point to adding a balanced input to such an amplifier.But the fact is there is a way to do it (without an input transformer too) that allows the amplifier to process both... | |
| Phono/preamp/amp chain. One of them tube the others SS. Which one? Just trying to understand how low level detail on tube better vs. transistor. I haven't heard 70+db gain for LOMC all tube phonostages that don't have typical hissing noise not substantial via speakers, but quite audible via headphones.The nois... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Don't remember his name, there is a French designer who makes great drivers used in some esoteric speakers. That driver goes down to about 40hz and up as far as you can see or hear. I think, it's 10" driver but not sure. The quality of that dri... |