atmasphere
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| 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... | |
| What speakers work best with electronic music? FWIW a speaker that is really good for classical music is also going to be good for rock or electronic music. Speakers don't care what you put through them!The same things that make a speaker good for electronic music (resolution, dynamic punch, b... | |
| Using high powered amp at low volumes power If you are running a high power amp at low power levels you will have a problem where the distortion and noise floor of the amplifier is actually higher than you may have expected. Nearly all high power push-pull amps, whether tube or solid state,... | |
| Snap, crackle, pop I rarely clean records unless they have obvious problems. For the most part I use a dust brush. Ticks and pops are not a problem despite that, although I am careful of the used LPs I buy, and try to take care of them by not handling the playing su... | |
| Ribbons or electrostatic speakers with SS Amp? FWIW Sound Lab redesigned their backpanel a little over a year ago making the speaker much easier to drive for tube and transistor amps alike. | |
| Snap, crackle, pop Some preamps will emphasize ticks and pops as well!Sometimes the loading on the phono cartridge can help too; a lot depends on what cartridge you have and the phono preamp. | |
| What speakers work best with electronic music? ^^ Actually it matters quite a lot. Electronic music can be quite demanding, on top of that it may come as a surprise but there is an analog/digital debate that is on-going in the electronic music community, and is why older analog synthesizers go... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers However, it is important that the amplifier be stable operating into varying impedance loads: an ideally stable amplifier will typically be able to deliver nearly twice its rated 8 Ohm wattage into 4 Ohms, and should again increase into 2 Ohms. 'S... |