atmasphere
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| Cracked glass/ Mcintosh Classic Audio Loudspeakers used to be called Classic Audio Reproductions, and did things like replacement glass for Macs. If its an older Mac you might check with him (John Wolff). | |
| 25 watts Class A or 70 watts Class A/B ? If you are open to tubes, our M-60 can drive that Tannoy with 60 watts... | |
| 25 watts Class A or 70 watts Class A/B ? Just a FWIW: 93 db is not considered high efficiency. It is a moderate efficiency. You are transitioning from moderate to high efficiency about 97 or 98 db.If the room is small enough or lively enough, I would go with the F5 in a heartbeat- it is ... | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? Most preamps have a volume control at the input of the line section. This makes it impossible to overload the line section without also playing the system very very loud. So really if this is not a problem on all LPs, the possibilities are a probl... | |
| Cracked glass/ Mcintosh Right now fb has nothing to do with it. It is not your fault that he took so long to get back to you- not your fault if the amp sat damaged in a box until he got around to it or back in town or whatever. Its irrelevant.If the claim time has elapse... | |
| 25 watts Class A or 70 watts Class A/B ? If the speaker is only 93 db, a lot is going to depend on how lively your room is and your personal listening habits. My room is slightly larger but has some damping (carpets, LPs in shelves, couch and armchair) so 25 watts simply would not be eno... | |
| Capacitance settings on Manley phonostage With SUTs the traditional knowledge about loading does not apply.This is because the SUT has a turns ratio and must be loaded correctly to prevent ringing of the transformer. The correct load will vary depending on the impedance of the cartridge.H... | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? 500uV is 0.5 millivolts.Overload is 31 db above that. That would be about 17.75 mV at the input at the time of overload. | |
| Cracked glass/ Mcintosh As the shipper its your responsibility to make the shipping claim. However, given the time it took for this to come up is highly suspicious, and there may be a sunset on the time allowed for claims. If that sunset has already occurred, you are off... | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? Atmasphere,It surely cannot be true. Perhaps you or Al can elaborate, but overloading is a function of the cartridge's output AND the phono stage's gain/sensitivity setting, isn't it? Theoretically, you could probably overload with a low output MC... | |
| Advantages of monoblocks The ability to separate the amps and keep the speaker cables short is a simple means to increase resolution in the system. Stereo amps require longer speaker cables unless you have a small listening area. | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? A moving coil phono section that overloads with 1mV from the cartridge is a phono section with poor overload characteristics, FWIW. | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? To further what Diggory has said, in the cutting process, it is impossible to overload the cutter system. The dynamic constraints exist in playback only. It is the engineer's job to understand what can be played back easily and what cannot.However... | |
| Advantages of monoblocks If the amplifiers in a stereo chassis share a common ground at the speaker terminals, you will most definitely hear an improvement in dimension by running monoblocks.This is due to the fact that certain information will be canceled at the speaker ... | |
| What's the best EL34 amp besides 8b? Funny thing about the ST-70. Although it has a modest pedigree, it totally gave its competition a harsh run for the money- on paper it kept up with the Marantz 8B pretty easily. Its biggest weakness is actually its rectifier- it uses a single 5AR4... |