atmasphere
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| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 **Most of the time** you can expect an amplifier with a balanced input to work just fine with a single-ended source.However, balanced line and single-ended operation are not normally considered to be compatible (by the pro audio industry). As a re... | |
| why balanced power last before component? Actually, if a GFCI is installed, it does not need the ground circuit to operate correctly. So what is needed is exactly as the NEC requires: each outlet must be of the GFCI type.If the installation does not have GFCI outlets for every component u... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 Agreed! Our amps are also fully balanced and differential; we made sure that it was no worries or loss of performance to use them with a single-ended preamp or source. | |
| why balanced power last before component? ^^ thanks for that, I did not find that in my search. Someone asked about balanced power on the OTL Asylum over on audioasylum.com, to which I responded:One thing about balanced power- equipment is not designed for it. Here is an example:If you ar... | |
| Tube Friendly High End "Big" speakers Here is another vote for the Audiokinesis. Get the big one- the Dreammaker- sounds like you can afford it. This is an excellent speaker and is 16 ohms- it is very tube friendly and one of the better bargains in high end loudspeakers. Also, Classic... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 Pakwong, I would not take this particular event as somehow being a problem with balanced operation. I've been working with balanced line equipment for decades; this sort of problem that you experienced says more about Audio Research than anything ... | |
| why balanced power last before component? I have found that designers in this industry often do not like being told that they have introduced a bug in their product. The way you ground audio equipment BTW is simple: the circuit ground in the gear is kept isolated and insulated from the ch... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 ^^ This. | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 Daveyf, anytime you put current through the shield of the cable, you are subject to the construction issues of that cable. So this is a big issue with single-ended, even if its only 6 inches. In a balanced system (caveat: if the balanced standard ... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 Dbarger, I spoke to both Kalvin and Warren at ARC and they told me the same thing: if the amp is used with a single-ended source it will have lower output power and will make distortion.This is because the drive to the power tubes will become unba... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 Davef, this quote is incorrect:single ended gear sounds better than balanced gear; IMO,unless one is using their gear in a VERY highly corrupted noise environment or with VERY long runs of cable, balanced is nothing but a joke in high-end.If you h... | |
| why balanced power last before component? It is a nice list of customers, but I think there is more to it than that. I've read stuff off of their website but I see troubling comments. Here is one:Can the problem of AC noise common in Class-A tube amps be addressed? How about noisy guitar ... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 As you may have surmised by this time, the ARC amplifier cannot be used with a single-ended source! If you do so, the amp **will not make anywhere near full power** and it will be distorted.This is because the amplifier has a very poor Common Mode... | |
| why balanced power last before component? No, although more detail would be helpful.The comments do support my view that individual grounding is cheaper and more effective. It would be nice to see exactly how though, as my opinion is based strictly on the observation I made earlier about ... | |
| Is a high priced Line Conditioner needed Akg_ca, I don't think I agree entirely with your post. Certainly additional filters can add up to current restrictions. And most high end audio conditioners don't do much more than that. But the one that I linked to in my earlier post is not a fil... |