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| how to clean brushed aluminum faceplate? If you have an anodized brushed aluminum panel, here is how to clean it:Goof Off will not harm the panel, but the brushed quality may prevent you from having success. Anodizing is very hard and sharp- many materials will cling to its grooves. You ... | |
| Amp for Martin logan CLS Originals It may well be that the original CLS 1 had a lower impedance at high frequencies. Usually how that behaves with any tube amp is that the amp will be rolled in the highs.Our amps did not roll off with the CLS 1, the same as with other tube amps, bu... | |
| Anyone compared BAT Rex vs. Atmasphere MP-1? Raquel, the way the MP-1 works is it has a direct-coupled output. The output impedance is low enough that it can drive 32-ohm headphones easily. It is designed to drive 600 ohms without effort; obviously its output impedance has to be well below t... | |
| tubes and moisture If you are using a dehumidifier you will be fine. | |
| TriPlanar Tips Jb0194, no, I don't. I don't think its much of an issue in my case- Warps the like don't seem to phase either arm.I run the Transfiguration Orpheus on one arm and the ZYX Universe on the other- neither seems to need the damping. So right now I hav... | |
| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp If your amplifier does not accept balanced inputs, it won't help to run a balanced cable that then uses an adapter to convert to single ended.FWIW though your amplifier can easily be modified without changing any of the circuit design to accept a ... | |
| Amp for Martin logan CLS Originals The CLS 1 (the original) had a high impedance and was a match made in heaven for tubes, even OTLs.The CLS 2 was an example of Martin-Logan's attempts to make ESLs compatible with transistors. It was very low impedance, 0.5 ohms at 20KHz. Almost an... | |
| Reel to Reel decks FWIW, you don't want to just 'change tape' for a different sound (unless maybe you are looking for an effect??). To get the best out of the machine, if you use a different formulation the machine should be calibrated properly to use that tape. Oth... | |
| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp Mitch2, my advice if you look for a preamp is look for one that is fully differential and balanced internally, not just at the inputs or outputs. If it is built right, the length or quality of the interconnect will be of no consequence. | |
| TriPlanar Tips The Triplanar has a extensional damping material on the arm tube to reduce mid and high frequency resonance artifacts. This is one of the reasons this arm is so neutral- most arm manufacturers do little to address this issue. | |
| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp Hi Al, I would not use that transformer for this application, because it does appear to leave you susceptible to the cable due to the high impedances involved.Instead if you are running a single-ended preamp to a power amp, I would use something t... | |
| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp Most line transformers, including the ISOMAX are designed to load at 600 ohms or thereabouts.If you don't load the transformer it can ring. The best place to load it is at the end of the interconnect that it is driving, if that is an XLR you can r... | |
| 6922, 6CG7 or 6H1n which one sounds best? Repost The answer is that the tube that the preamp is optimized for is the one that will sound the best (lowest distortion- smoothest sound with greatest detail).The best sounding of tube of the list is the 6CG7 which is essentially a 6SN7 in a 9-pin min... | |
| Dynavector XV-1s loading question. The load will generally reduce capacitive effects in the cable, so I have been an advocate of cartridge loading on this account, so long as the load does not over-damp the cartridge.If handled correctly, this means that the phono cable will not ha... | |
| Great 16 ohm Full Range loudspeakers The MA-1 is very comfortable with 8 ohm speakers and a good number of 4 ohm speakers. In fact its smaller brother works fine with 8 ohm speakers too.Impedance peaks can be dealt with by Zobel networks if the designer of the speaker was expecting t... |