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| RCA to XLR adapters? Martykl, yes, we are all usually out on the lake ice fishing every weekend starting about September or so. I'll ask them next time I see them but I heard that Dean was injured up north recently so I may not see him very soon. Apparently he was nea... | |
| How close to the real thing? Hi Kirkus, that was not what I recalled so I looked up the Ampex schematic... Its not the record head that has feedback- prior to that the record calibration circuit does use a feedback mechanism. The rest of the circuit has none.I did think about... | |
| Black Sabbath fans...Vertigo LP's The German Vertigo press are excellent too- much better than the American press. | |
| How close to the real thing? Yes, feedback is somewhere in there. But there is correct feedback, and "bad" feedback! If feedback was inherently not good then no piece of recorded music could ever be made to sound good, since every recording device and studio is riddled with f... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Martykl, its my guess its the latter rather than the former. I really doubt ARC would make an amplifier that could not manage a single-ended input! | |
| Int. Amp's input sensitivity and DAC's output DAC manufacturers seem to all have a kind of arrogance that says you will never use anything but their DAC driving your power amps.There is no idea that you might be using an integrated, or possibly a phono section as well.On top of that there is ... | |
| How close to the real thing? Tubes and transistors seem to act very similar to feedback. I've less experience with class D, but from what I am seeing there are several techniques of using feedback and some work better than others, so it would be unsafe to generalize that feed... | |
| How close to the real thing? Timlub, It looks to me like Fas42 places a lot of importance on soundstage and imaging. There are different types of 'distortion' that affect that- primarily of bandwidth. The better it is the more intact the phase relationships, which are what de... | |
| How close to the real thing? FWIW, low ordered distortion is pleasant, but it does obscure detail, and the ear tends to hear it as a fatness or warmth in the sound. Lower orders are the 2nd, 3rd and 4th.Transistor amps have almost none of these distortions, but they are commo... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? If the amplifier is truly balanced, it will not care if the input signal is balanced or single ended, nor will it matter if you use the RCA or XLR for that input.I can imagine an amplifier that is balanced but does not take advantage of all the po... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? Won't these advantages be negated if a single-ended signal is put through a balanced amp?No. As soon as the signal is in the amp, it will be in the balanced domain if the amp is really balanced.Using a Jensen may not be a bad idea- you have the SE... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters? The amp should not care if the input is balanced or single ended.You will not get the benefit of a balanced preamp, but it will work fine. | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Good point David. I had that demonstrated in spades at the recent RMAF. The complaint in the system was that the image was off to one side and it was being blamed on the amps. What was really going on was that the speaker was out of phase in one c... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Audioraider, if you swapped the arm wiring at the cartridge clips and the problem moved, its the cartridge.However now we have 3 cartridges that all seem to have the same problem, so its getting less likely that the cartridge is to blame. I also d... | |
| Are my ears just fooling me? The Merlins actually can do the job quite well and you don't have to get crazy expensive amps to do the job.But you want to keep in mind that anytime you hear a sax live, the perspective will be different from that of a recording if for no other r... |