atmasphere
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| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp With regard to Al's comment immediately above, you could set up the cable so that only pin 2 of the XLR at the preamp end is used. That way the inverting out would not be grounded and possibly damaged.FWIW in the case of our preamps they are compl... | |
| Need help fast - Unbalanced Preamp to Balanced Amp If you use an adapter, sometimes you can wind up with a hum because the adapter is not grounding the unused input.With a balanced amp you have a non-inverted input and an inverted input that is part of the XLR connection. If the RCA to XLR adapter... | |
| How to accomodate a balanced only phono stage ? Dgarretson has got it pretty close. The gain of the preamp is unaffected by using only one input single-ended; the problem with that is noise that is now available at the input of the preamp, whereas if you use the signal balanced, the noise can b... | |
| rumble issues - see old thread update I usually run the ZYX a little more than 1.75 grams FWIW, more like 1.85-2.0. | |
| rumble issues - see old thread update Audiotomb, I responded to this on the other thread. I run the Triplanar and ZYX and have used a variety of speakers, a good number of them ported. In addition, our preamp has phono bandwidth flat to 2 Hz. We get no pumping. IOW the bandwidth the o... | |
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| Best tracks to "show off" your system Lesse. 'The Wand of Youth', EMI, the track: 'the Wild Bears' for depth and soundstage.For impact and ability to demonstrate energy without being overbearing: "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, on white label Vertigo vinylfor dynamic range vs detail: Ver... | |
| Why not horns? Well, you'll likely have a one-note bass, but in a room like that, that issue is hard to overcome regardless of the technology. | |
| Why not horns? If you are thinking of Klipsch, it seems the older they are the better they are. But if the price is right, what the heck. They work OK next to the wall. I think I would go for Altecs first as well. A few years ago I found a set of Electro Voice R... | |
| Why not horns? Weseixas, you might want to stop while you're ahead on this one. My comments was not meant to be derogatory to musicians. Worked with and for many in the past, My comments were nothing more than to differentiate the experience between audiophile a... | |
| To Preamp Or Not To Preamp,That Is The Question Mikey44, the amp is usually less convenient, but from a performance point of view that setup usually works quite well. | |
| Paid a bit too much for a Citation II... If you can find one, the Magus is often around $400. | |
| Amp for Magnepan 1.7's I know on my guitar amplifier I only have to replace preamp tubes every year or two, does the same hold true for hi-fi preamp tubes?Yes. I have seen preamp tubes under heavy use hold up as long as 5-6 years. | |
| What is wrong with negative feedback? Right. We were careful to not allow the amplifiers to clip during these tests. However it really did not matter which amp we used or in what combination. The higher efficiency of the speakers meant that amps were not working as hard and so were mo... | |
| Why not horns? The Better any system get's to the truth, is the less you will experience these so called un-listenable tracks.IME bad recordings bring out the worst in the system as well. So if the system allows you to listen to bad recordings without editoriali... |