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| Best Speakers For Electronica Music If you are on a budget, Audiokinesis is very good about getting good bass for the buck. He also has a subwoofer system called the Swarm which can be used to eliminate spots in the room where there is no bass. It just got an award in The Absolute S... | |
| Cartridge impedance loading question As pointed out, the capacitance of the interconnect cable has a big influence and may actually be more important than the cartridge. That is why you can't have the same loading for all installations of the same cartridge.If the cable capacitance i... | |
| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? ^^ It depends on what options are installed. I think the base price is around $12,000/pair, with all the options I think they are about $37,000/pair. Options are field coil powered woofers (there is an 18" available now), Mundorf caps in the cross... | |
| Amp and preamp on same outlet? ^^ If you are going to operate a 30 amp breaker, make sure the line it controls is also rated for 30 amps.Otherwise you risk a fire. I bet you will find though that the 20amp wiring is also 'limiting' the amp; at any rate you will do well for your... | |
| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? I have a home speaker that will blow away any JBL... for heavy metal...Dual 15" TAD woofers; it uses a JBL horn, although it is driven by a custom built compression driver with powered by a field coil. No alnico here. Later versions of the same sp... | |
| Amp and preamp on same outlet? 50 amps is correct. But we should keep in mind that the amp is likely never going to produce such power, as it would only be possible if the load were one ohm. I remember the Apogee Full-Range speaker approached that value, but the speaker cables ... | |
| Cartridge impedance loading question Pkoegz, its a good idea to try the loading at least. If it improves the sound (reduces brightness without affecting speed or bandwidth) then it tells you that despite low noise, the preamp is sensitive to Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). This i... | |
| Cartridge impedance loading question The MP-1 has loading strips mounted on the rear panel by the phono input. It might be one of the easier preamps to set cartridge loading. | |
| EL34 & 6L6 characteristics Triode power tubes do that easily. | |
| Need Audio Tech who knows tubes - Chicago area "gridding to the heater voltage" is a new one on me and I have been at this for over 40 years. Something does not sound right with this... FWIW to any technician that can use a voltmeter, measuring the heater voltage will have a lot in common with... | |
| Pickup SRA - starting from a 500x microscope Something to keep in mind is that all LPs are different- so the 92 degree SRA should be considered an approximation.The simple fact of the matter is that the cutting stylus only lasts about 10 hours before replacement is required to continue doing... | |
| Cartridge impedance loading question ^^ this is how prevalent the cartridge loading mythology is!Here is an explanation of why this cartridge may not have sounded bright in Lew's system:http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?14815-Best-phono-stage&p=307116&viewfull=1#po... | |
| MR71 Tube Tuner alignment One channel not coming up when cold is not an alignment issue!The first thing I would do would be to test the tubes in the multiplex section to see if any are weak or shorted. Alignment will affect stereo separation, alignment of the discriminator... | |
| Cartridge impedance loading question The larger you make an air coil, the lower its inductance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InductorThe noise that a phono section has is usually not a function of loading. There are a lot of factors that have to do with noise- it is an immense topic... | |
| Cartridge impedance loading question A LOMC cartridge without a core is going to have a lower inductance value as compared to one that does have a core. A core has a way of increasing the inductance, all other variables being equal.As Jcarr points out in one of the links I provided, ... |